President Joe Biden, a self-described Catholic, awarded former Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards the Presidential Medal of Freedom Wednesday in a private ceremony.
Richards oversaw approximately 4 million abortions during her 12 years at the helm of the organization, from 2006 to 2018. According to Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America. The Medal of Freedom is awarded, at the president's discretion, to civilians who have rendered “especially meritorious service” to the United States.
“Today, I was honored to award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Cecile Richards. With absolute courage, she fearlessly led us to what we call America, the land of the free. I will guide you,” Biden, 82, said in a post on X. She built an inspiring legacy by advancing women's reproductive rights and equality and mobilizing Americans to exercise their right to vote. ”
According to According to the Washington Times, the ceremony was not listed on Biden's public schedule, and “Biden's decision to award the medal to Richards was not made public until after the ceremony.” Officials were not invited to watch the ceremony, nor was it livestreamed on the White House website.
Richards was at the helm of Planned Parenthood when it was accused of illegally harvesting and selling the body parts of aborted babies, a charge the organization denies. . She resigned in 2018 but remains active as an abortion activist. She was diagnosed with an incurable brain tumor earlier this year.
Richards is prompted Women should be “bold” to talk about abortion. In a speech at this year's Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago, she said “there is no stopping” women from being able to abort their fetuses.
Biden has been widely criticized for supporting abortion while claiming to be Catholic. In 2019, he was denied communion at a church in South Carolina for promoting the killing of unborn children through abortion.
“You cannot give an award to the CEO of a Planned Parenthood program while being Catholic,” the American Life League wrote in response to news of the award.
CJ Doyle, executive director of the Catholic Action League, issued a statement questioning how a priest could “give the Eucharist to a moral monster like Biden…”
“At the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, mass murderers received just punishment for their crimes against humanity. “In President Joe Biden's America, a mass murderer was just awarded the nation's highest award,” Doyle said in a press release. “How the priests and prelates of St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington could bestow communion on a moral monster like Biden leaves us imagining. ”
“Cardinal Wilton Gregory, the Archbishop of Washington, should excommunicate Joe Biden, but he is too busy shutting down Latin Masses to recognize Biden's latest attacks on the faith and sensibilities of Catholics,” Doyle added. . “With Biden embracing the moral equivalent of Adolf Eichmann, some Catholic politicians say they are 'personally opposed' to abortion but do not want to 'impose their religion on others'. The pretense should come true,” he continued. “Anyone who has even the slightest moral discomfort with abortion will not be able to praise the murderer of some 4 million babies. ”
The Biden administration is perhaps the most pro-abortion administration in U.S. history; through Executive orders, rulemaking and guidance from unelected government officials, and various legal challenges to implementing abortion-on-demand policies across the country and around the world.
Katherine Hamilton is a political reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow her at @thekat_Hamilton.
