Author: Leprechaun Express - Steve Welsh

Speculation, and debate, periodically surfaces about whether college football realignments might result in ‘Notre Dame’ and Southern Cal dropping what used to be the greatest national rivalry in the sport.  Perhaps the glaring question is, why did the now ill-fated matchup go on so long, with the Irish claiming to be Catholic while Southern Cal boasts of “high-volume abortion training.”

The Catholic Church regards abortion, prenatal filicide, as so serious that it brings about automatic excommunication, like other forms of homicide.

The words “University of Notre Dame” essentially mean the “University of the Blessed Virgin Mary,” in that “Notre Dame” is French for “Our Lady.”

Beyond administrators’ personal standing with God Himself, which is what ultimately matters, the university also does rely on its public affiliation with the Catholic Church for its professed identity and “good-guy” public image.  Even their sports marketing evokes “God, Country, Notre Dame” as part of their social media “branding.”

Meanwhile, the University of Southern California openly admits and promotes the fact that they train abortionists, including what they call “high-volume abortion training.” At a minimum, for starters, their webpage for their “Complex Family Planning Fellowship Program” declares:

“The Fellowship in Complex Family Planning is a two-year fellowship focused on subspecialist training in research, teaching and clinical practice in abortion and contraception. …”

As can be seen from their webpage, the details of the program are somewhat voluminous, including “clinical” training, contributions to would-be research, and training in the “political landscape.”

The program professes to include “clinical training at the Los Angeles General Medical Center, where fellows learn to provide all family planning procedures up to the state’s legal limitations.” It also speaks of “[h]igh-volume abortion training” at so-called Planned Parenthood locations.

A “Reproductive Options Clinic” is said to provide “comprehensive counseling for pregnancy disposition, with provision of surgical or medical termination as indicated.”

In addition to whatever abortion-related activity might exist within a Southern Cal residency program or elsewhere, their family planning fellowship is said to operate a so-called “Reproductive Options Clinic” at the Los Angeles General Medical Center.

From 1968 to 2023, the facility was known as the LAC+USC Medical Center, “to reflect its academic partnership” with Southern Cal, and apparently is still significantly interwoven with Southern Cal medical activities.

Apparently, at least for the Southern Cal fellowship program, some Southern Cal abortions are performed at that site, with mention of Southern Cal also partnering with so-called Planned Parenthood for “high-volume abortion training.”

In addition, even Southern Cal student health services gets involved with abortion.  They publicly offer Southern Cal college students access to chemical abortions: “Medication abortion is available as a USC Student Health service. Contact us to make an appointment to see a provider.”

Given the horrific nature of the subject, and, in contrast, the comfort some draw from sports entertainment and historic nostalgia, there might always be those who would like to avoid the facts, if not try to silence them and “punish the messenger.”

They might try to argue, oh, let’s just think about football, or, oh, that’s something happening to somebody else, somewhere else.  Yet it is just that kind of cozy obliviousness that has helped more than 63 million surgical abortions come about in the United States.

And when ‘Notre Dame’ plays an abortion school like Southern Cal, they are doing more than just enhancing the abortion school’s revenue and prestige.  They are helping to legitimize the abortion school, and, even worse, add to the “business as usual” casualness that makes it easier for pregnant mothers and expectant fathers to lapse into something they ordinarily would consider unthinkable.

Even as abortion is unthinkable, disreputable, and out of step with Southern Cal’s previous stature as what had been a fine academic institution, it is precisely that contradiction that makes it valuable for abortion forces, perversely, to establish a foothold there.

Normal mothers and fathers who ordinarily might never have considered such madness, but who, perhaps might be under some kind of pressure or distorted mindset, see a previously reputable institution like Southern Cal hosting it.  Perhaps that false sense of pseudo-normalization might conceivably help sway someone already in a vulnerable state of mind.

And if they see things like ‘Notre Dame’ still playing Southern Cal in football, complacently invoking historical nostalgia, perhaps that is part of a range of factors that can contribute to the pseudo-legitimization of a corrupted institution.

it adds to the entire ambience that somehow it is the old, reputable, vaunted Southern Cal endorsing abortion, instead of some new, morally bankrupt alter ego, coopted, corrupted, and distorted.

It is would be improper for leading scholars of non-medical subjects to enhance the reputation of a corrupted, abortion-performing Southern Cal, by joining the faculty saying, oh, we’re not directly involved, and we like the money and the title over in our department.

It is even more harmful for ‘Notre Dame’ to help lend a false air of legitimacy to an abortion-performing institution.

The trappings of historic nostalgia should not be used to lull the public into complacency with human rights violations.

Indeed, whatever the Southern Cal abortion numbers, high-volume or otherwise, as the leading human rights violation of the day, abortion is likely the most widespread violence against human life on the planet.

With over 63 million surgical abortions in the United States since 1973, the number of Americans murdered in the womb even approaches the numbers needed to win the Presidency.

Then there is the racial factor. Abortion is far more wide-spread than slavery ever was in the South before the Civil War, numerically, and abortion is impacting Blacks at a rate several times higher than Whites per capita.

‘Notre Dame’ Football especially should be more racially sensitive about the abortion issue, given the large numbers of Blacks on football rosters, much higher than the Black portion of the population, and even higher still than the much lower percentage of Blacks in the ‘Notre Dame’ student body.

Then there is the abortion connection for ‘Notre Dame’ Football itself. A ‘Notre Dame’ Heisman winner from the 1950’s made a disclosure in his memoirs that was taken as an admission that, after getting a young woman pregnant out of wedlock, he was complicit in her obtaining what would have been an illegal abortion.

In addition to any legal problems, had the facts been known at the time, that player likely would have been expelled from ‘Notre Dame’ before winning the Heisman, and, given the disreputable nature of the matter, probably would have had difficulty winning such accolades anywhere else.

Yet instead of disavowing the player, suggesting he give back his Heisman, and giving up whatever Heisman Trophy, or replica, ‘Notre Dame’ itself possesses, they invited the problem individual to speak at a pep rally (at which a bizarre spectacle unfolded in which his pants fell down at the podium, prompting excuse-making about losing weight).

Even in 2025, roughly one-third of the ‘Notre Dame’ football schedule is against abortion schools.

As said before, the words “University of Notre Dame” essentially mean the “University of the Blessed Virgin Mary,” in that “Notre Dame” is French for “Our Lady.” ‘Notre Dame’ associating with an abortion school, enhancing its revenue and prestige, is like trying to associate the Blessed Virgin Mary and her Divine Son with an abortion school.

It is long overdue for ‘Notre Dame’ to boot Southern Cal, Miami (Fla.), Stanford, Pitt, and any other abortion-connected schools off the schedule, and to leave conferences like the ACC and so-called Big Ten that include abortion schools.

Yet perhaps an initial question might be, how many people even knew about it.

Perhaps part of the modus operandi of this particular evil seems to be to seep “into the woodwork,” get interwoven with institutions that have many other, completely unrelated, elements that built goodwill, then sit back and try to deflect scrutiny about the evil, while trying to poach the institutional goodwill.