EXCLUSIVE: Former Vice President Mike Pence strongly condemned anticipated disruptions by abortion activists outside of Catholic churches over Mother's Day weekend, days after a draft court opinion overturning landmark abortion case Roe v. Wade leaked out of the Supreme Court.
Pence sat down with Fox News Digital Saturday before he delivered a commencement address at Patrick Henry College in Purcellville, Virginia, during which he called planned protests at churches "unacceptable."
"Well, every American has a right to peaceful protest, peaceable assemblies guaranteed in the Constitution. But the rumors that there will be a disruption of church services on Mother's Day is totally unacceptable," Pence told Fox News Digital.
"And I also think it's absolutely imperative, as I'm sure is the case, that we see to the safety and security of all the members of the Supreme Court of the United States. But I'm confident that this Supreme Court will not be intimidated."
Pence called the leak out of the Supreme Court a "despicable act" and emphasized that those who are responsible must be held to account.
"I have long believed that Roe v. Wade was not only morally wrong, but deeply legally flawed," Pence told Fox News Digital, pointing to the late liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's statements admitting that it is a hard case to defend on legal grounds.