President Joe Biden said Tuesday he is not a strong supporter of abortion as a practicing Catholic, but defended the reproductive rights granted by Roe.

“I’m a Catholic practicioner. I’m not a supporter of abortion, but guess what? Roe v. Wade got it right,” Joe Biden said at a fundraiser with about 100 donors in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

He also criticized the more than 20 states that have endorsed laws to prevent access to the medical procedure since the Supreme Court ended the historic precedent.

Biden, America’s second Catholic president after John F. Kennedy, often attends Saturday afternoon Mass in Wilmington, Delaware, or Washington, DC.

In the midst of the controversy, Joe Biden took unilateral steps to protect the abortion pill and increase the availability of contraceptives, as well as family planning, among other initiatives.

However, thanks to grassroots organizing efforts and underground networks, “abortions are still being performed every day in every state across the country,” said Amy Littlefield, a correspondent for The Nation.

Last weekend, hundreds of abortion rights supporters rallied in the nation’s capital on the first anniversary of the Supreme Court’s overturning of abortion rights.

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