Pro-Abortion Rights Protesters Interrupt Joel Osteen Church Service

Three activists with a Texas pro-abortion rights 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.

Abortion rights activist protests at Lakewood Church in Houston. Screenshot from @tx4abortion on Twitter

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 nondenominational Christian church led by Osteen, is one of the largest congregations in the United States, with average weekly attendance in the tens of thousands.

Anne Stych is a freelance writer, copy editor, proofreader and content manager covering science, technology, retail, etc. She writes for American City Business Journals’ BizWomen. This story originally appeared at MinistryWatch.