Joe Biden, a self-proclaimed Catholic president, honored longtime feminist and pro-abortion activist Eleanor Smeal by awarding her the Presidential Citizens Medal.
The medal is awarded to U.S. citizens who have “performed exemplary acts of service to their country or fellow citizens.”According to the White House announcement The award comes after Biden, the nation's second Catholic president, received the P Award.Medal of Housing Freedom awarded to former Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards reportedly During her 12 years at the helm of the organization, from 2006 to 2018, she oversaw approximately 4 million abortions.
Smeal is president of the Feminist Majority Foundation and past president of the National Organization for Women (NOW) and Catholic News Agency (CNA). reported. She was one of 20 people to receive the Presidential Citizens Medal on Thursday.
According to the Feminist Majority Foundation, Smeal guided The first national abortion rights march took place in Washington, DC in 1986, with over 100,000 protesters participating. She also campaigned for the Equal Rights Amendment and criticized laws that protect unborn children from abortion.
“Raised as a Catholic, Smeal has criticized the Vatican and the Catholic Church for their teachings on the sanctity of life, opposition to contraception, and teachings about human sexuality,” the report said.
Smir was arrested in 1987 during a protest at the Vatican embassy, the Apostolic See of the Holy See. washington post reported. Protest speakers opposed the church's teachings on abortion, contraception, and homosexuality.
“Because of my gender, I will forever be second class in the church,” Smeal said at the time. “Because of my gender, I could have been sentenced to death at a young age.” [if I did not disobey the Church ban on birth control]”
Mr. Smeal also warned President George W. Bush about his Catholic faith when he nominated him to the Supreme Court in 2005. I'm saying that “The majority of the court will be Roman Catholic, with fewer members of other religions, not to mention non-believers.”
Biden has been widely criticized for supporting abortion while claiming to be Catholic. In 2019 he rejected Communion was held at a South Carolina church over its promotion of killing unborn children through abortion.
WATCH — Bishop Strickland: Joe Biden 'goes against faithful Catholics' by promoting abortion:
The Biden administration is perhaps the most pro-abortion administration in U.S. history; through presidential order, making rules and guidance from unelected government officials and various legal officials. assignment Expanding the on-demand abortion agenda nationwide; world.
Katherine Hamilton is a political reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow her at @thekat_Hamilton.
