Calling abortion “the most pressing human-rights challenge of our time,” Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone on Sunday invoked the excommunication of prominent Catholic segregationists in the early 1960s as an example of a legitimate response to pro-abortion Catholics politicians who support “a great moral evil.”

In an op-ed published in The Washington Post, the leader of the Archdiocese of San Francisco pushed back against recent statements by Catholic politicians who have denounced a new state law in Texas that prohibits abortions after six weeks of pregnancy.

The op-ed doesn’t mention any politicians by name, and it stops short of advocating that any specific pro-abortion politicians be excommunicated. President Joseph Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, both professed Catholics, have been among those who have come out strongly against the Texas law.