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Pro-Abortion Protesters Interrupt Joel Osteen Church Service

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Three activists with a Texas pro-abortion group interrupted a service at Joel Osteen’s Houston megachurch last weekend by stripping to their underwear and shouting “my body, my choice,” “Overturn Roe, Hell no,” and other epithet-laced slogans.

Under their clothing, the women wore white sports bras with green handprints on the breasts. 

The activists, part of the group Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights, were protesting the possibility of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade and allowing states to set their own abortion policies. 

Politico last month published what appeared to be an initial draft of a majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito suggesting the Supreme Court would  reverse the landmark 1973 ruling. 

The women continued their protest outside after they were escorted from the church to cheers and applause from the congregation, The New York Post reported.

One of the protestors told Houston TV station KPRC-2 they felt justified in staging the protest on the church’s private property because people “have no qualms coming up to women in private spaces such as doctors’ offices and medical clinics to harass them and call them murderers.”

Lakewood Church has not responded to the protest. 

Lakewood, an evangelical non-denominational Christian church led by Osteen, is one of the largest congregations in the United States, with average weekly attendance in the tens of thousands.

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Anne Stych

Anne Stych is a writer in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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