Even though she didn’t broach the topic in her speech to Georgetown University graduates Friday, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius was nonetheless interrupted by a protester who objected to the Obama administration’s health care rule requiring employer-based insurance plans to cover birth control.

Not long after Sebelius stepped up to the podium, someone in the back of the room started shouting phrases like “Abortion is murder!” and “Get out!” The protester was removed from the room and kept shouting for several minutes outside, The Hill reported.

The contraception mandate has been a source of much criticism of the Obama administration and of Sebelius from religiously conservative critics, including many Catholic leaders who objected to the secretary’s appearance at the Jesuit university.

In her speech to graduates of Georgetown’s public policy school, Sebelius kept things mostly apolitical and did not mention contraception at all. She did, however, address the sometimes rocky nature of policy debates that touch on people’s religions sensitivities, The Hill reported:

“But this is a strength of our country, not a weakness,” said Sebelius. “In some countries around the world, it is much easier to make policy,” she said. “The leader delivers an edict and it goes into effect. There’s no debate, no press, no criticism, no second guessing.”

Aside from the protester who made it inside the chamber where Sebelius spoke, representatives of an anti-abortion organization rallied outside, including a pair of bagpipers “in full garb, playing graduation processional tunes.”

Watch the beginning of Sebelius’ address and the interruption below: