Posted on 10/15/2019 1:02:13 PM PDT by Morgana
Posting Planned Parenthood logo on their office doors
Stephen Sundborg cited “longstanding policy as a Catholic university” when he removed Planned Parenthood as a recommended resource for students at Seattle University.
Not everyone at the reliably left-wing university agreed with the president’s decision, and now the administration is reportedly stonewalling the campus newspaper on the basis for Sundborg’s decision.
The Spectator reports that several faculty have challenged Sundborg’s claim that support for legal abortion “runs counter to the stance of Catholic institutions, schools and universities like Seattle University.”
Theresa Earenfight, director of the Women and Gender Studies Program, told the Spectator that she knows “a lot of Catholics that are pro-choice” and that Sundborg “has align[ed] him with the fringe, not with the mainstream.”
The entire faculty and staff of that program published a statement in response that said “Planned Parenthood is essential to the livelihoods of people of all genders, classes and races,” according to the paper:
“Some of us [faculty and staff] relied almost exclusively on Planned Parenthood for all of our women’s health care needs, some of us while undergraduate students here at SU, some from poorer families, or some simply struggling in grad school to make ends meet. Without Planned Parenthood, we would not have had access to women’s health treatment during our college years,” the statement reads.
Two Seattle University philosophy professors even wrote a book called “A Brief, Liberal, Catholic Defense of Abortion.”
Co-author Dan Dombrowswki, who “self-identifies as a lifelong Catholic” and serves as board chair of Catholics for Choice, said two major Catholic figures – St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Augustine – “believed a fetus was not a person” at least “in the early stages.”
The College of Arts and Sciences Advising Center, on whose website the Planned Parenthood referral appeared (below), is trying to undermine Sundborg by displaying Dombrowski’s book and “flyers that list Planned Parenthood as a LGBTQIA-friendly healthcare resource” in its office. Some professors have also posted Planned Parenthood’s logo on their office doors in protest.
No Theresa A lot of Catholics are not Catholics if they are pro choice.
Sounds like they have the wrong faculty......................
part of the problem...”the Women and Gender Studies Program”
why is there even such a program. Maybe one class I could see that but a whole program? Really?
Fire those in the faculty
“Seattle University”, well there you go. I had no idea it was a Catholic school (or supposed to be Catholic).
Campus paper wants to the the basis of the decision? How about it’s a Catholic university morons! A Catholic university president standing up for the principles of the Catholic faith..........wow! SatNs children will force the presidents removal in 3.....2....1
Jesuit
These people are not Catholic or Jesuit. They are apostates, infidels, whatever you want to call them. This pope is a heretic.
exactly! this kind of LQGTXYZ immoral garbage doesn’t belong at any university, least of all a religiously-sponsored one, imho
Gee....maybe some Catholics are finally learning what Catholicism is...
Should call it what it is: Abortion America Agency.
The one true and apostolic church founded by Jesus Christ himself.
If you do not like Catholic rules then do not work at or attend a Catholic college.
It is a Jesuit school, if I recall correctlty.
Splains much...........
i understand the concern with some, many Jesuit schools...
(although, I’ve seen some problems at a couple non-Jesuit schools, too...the Jesuits don’t have a monopoly on anti-Biblical campus issues...alas!)
thanks
SO TRUE.
Those programs aim at college students, a rich source of rebellion and hormones sometimes. But that sure isn't true of all college students. Colleges should be chosen carefully.
Thank you, Mr. Breath of Fresh Air.
No question the Jesuits do not have a monopoly—I was pleasantly surprised to see anything good come out of a Jesuit school.
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