Things got heated during a White House press briefing when a reporter asked why President Joe Biden supports Abortion despite it going against his Catholic faith.

On Thursday, Owen Jensen, a reporter from the Catholic news outlet EWTN,Ā asked White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, ā€œWhy does the president support Abortion when his own Catholic faith teaches Abortion is morally wrong?ā€

ā€œHe believes that it’s a woman’s right. It’s a woman’s body and it’s her choice,ā€ she responded.

The reporter pushed back, ā€œWho does he believe then should look out for the unborn child?ā€

ā€œHe believes it’s up to a woman to make those decisions and to a woman to make those decisions with her doctor,ā€ she responded. ā€œI know you’ve never faced those choices, nor have you ever been pregnant. But for women out there who have faced those choices this is an incredibly difficult thing. The president believes that right should be respected.ā€

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The exchange comes after Biden blasted the Supreme Court’s decision not to block a Texas law that bans abortions after six weeks.

Conservatives quickly responded to Psaki’s comments:

https://twitter.com/ArthurSchwartz/status/1433501048363175941

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In a statement on Thursday, Biden called the Supreme Court’s decision ā€œan unprecedented assault on a woman’s constitutional rights underĀ Roe v. Wade, which has been the law of the land for almost fifty years.ā€

ā€œBy allowing a law to go into effect that empowers private citizens in Texas to sue health care providers, family members supporting a woman exercising her right to choose after six weeks, or even a friend who drives her to a hospital or clinic, it unleashes unconstitutional chaos and empowers self-anointed enforcers to have devastating impacts,ā€ he added.

Finally, he said he is directing a ā€œwhole-of-government effort to respond to this decisionā€ to see ā€œwhat steps the Federal Government can take to ensure that women in Texas have access to safe and legal abortions as protected byĀ Roe, and what legal tools we have to insulate women and providers from the impact of Texas’ bizarre scheme of outsourced enforcement to private parties.ā€