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 the University of Miami, 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, perhaps under stress, to lapse into something they ordinarily might consider unimaginable.
Abortion is unthinkable, disreputable, and out of step with the University of Miami’s historic stature as what had been a fine academic institution. Yet it is precisely that contradiction that makes it valuable for abortion forces, perversely, to establish a foothold there.
Even though the vast majority of expectant mothers and fathers would consider prenatal killing to be unthinkable, some might end up under unusual pressures and stresses that distort their thinking. That is especially the case considering the sometimes-relentless pro-abortion propaganda from pro-abortion politicians, big-money pro-abortion special interests and any left-leaning, activist news media.
Vulnerable persons seeing prenatal killing embedded within the otherwise respected halls of a major university like the University of Miami risk being made even more vulnerable, by the distorting effect of that contradiction upon their sensibilities.
We might never know how much seeing the University of Miami being treated as a sister institution by the University of Notre Dame might add to that distortion. It is a distortion that can present life-threatening consequences to the unborn children, and other serious consequences to the parents.
It is would be improper for leading scholars of non-medical subjects to enhance the reputation of an institutionally compromised, abortion-performing University of Miami. That is the case if even, they join the faculty saying, oh, we’re not directly involved, and we like the money and the title, and we just stay over in our department.
It also is harmful for ‘Notre Dame’ to help lend a false air of legitimacy to an abortion-performing institution.
Whatever the particular University of Miami abortion numbers, 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. Those numbers usually are 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 might 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 Miami (Fla.), Southern Cal, Stanford, Pitt, and any other abortion-connected schools off the schedule. By definition that would mean also leaving 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.
Given the circumstances, the Catholic mission of the Holy Cross Order and the university likely might also require a confrontation with the abortion schools, to challenge them on the matter and give them the opportunity to repudiate and cease involvement with abortion. That confrontation should have happened long ago, yet fairness might dictate that it offer a final chance to do the right thing, in anticipation of disassociating with the abortion schools if they fail to do so.
As it stands, while some might try a false argument that, by playing the abortion schools, ‘Notre Dame’ is somehow “engaging” them in a constructive manner. Yet there does not to be any actual “engagement” going on whatsoever, with regard to such pivotal moral and ethical considerations, just big-money-making, publicity-generating sports entertainment.
An added note to consider is that American medical education in general has gone completely “AWOL” failing to establish, or reform, an accreditation authority for OB/GYN residencies that has not been infiltrated by pro-abortion forces trying to force residency programs to train abortionists and engage in prenatal killing.
That lack of leadership ends providing another “bait-and-switch” manipulation where pro-abortion sympathizers try to offer a pseduo-official sounding pronouncement that they are simply complying with some institutional framework, one concocted by other pro-abortion forces.
‘Notre Dame’ had another football opponent in the past with a school official who tried to make that kind of argument, and tried to act like abortion was a given, and that they somehow had to do it. Later, that school was left scrambling trying to explain whether it was in violation of state law.
In the end, the most efficient and faithful solution is for the university to publicize the issue, challenge the abortion schools, and drop them as athletic partners and opponents if they fail to reform, including leaving an ACC and B1G conferences that feature abortion schools.
