‘Notre Dame’ should drop Stanford over abortion; Stanford University is one of four abortion schools on ‘Notre Dame’s’ 2025 football schedule, including three from the ACC
Dropping abortion-school Stanford likely means dropping ‘Notre Dame’s’ partnership with the ACC, a conference riddled by abortion schools.
The Catholic Church regards abortion as such a serious matter that procurement of abortion brings about automatic excommunication. Yet at least one-fourth of ‘Notre Dame’s’ regular season football schedule includes abortion schools — Stanford, Miami (Fla.) and Pitt from the ACC, and Southern Cal from the B1G/”Big Ten.”
While it is true that the Irish scheduled Stanford in the past, their agreement to play a certain number of ACC schools each year would complicate efforts to drop ACC abortion schools like Stanford, Miami (Fla.) and Pitt, as well as others.
Stanford is open and notorious about performing abortions and training abortionists.
“The Division of Family Planning Services and Research at Stanford University offers comprehensive … [so-called] reproductive care for women …. The Family Planning clinic provides … comprehensive abortion care — including via telehealth. The Family Planning division is also committed to research, resident physician and fellow training, and education in the field of family planning. …”
“Family Planning
The Stanford Family Planning Clinic provides:
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- Medication Abortion
- Termination of pregnancy up to 24 weeks
* * *- Telehealth appointments for abortion care …”
(emphasis added)
Stanford’s OB/GYN residency program more specifically declares that Stanford trains abortionists.
Rotation Schedule
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Family PlanningWe consider [so-called] family planning – provision of contraception and abortion – an essential aspect of comprehensive women’s reproductive healthcare. ACGME requires abortion training be integrated into residency training programs. As such, family planning training is integrated into clinical rotations starting in the first year. Through our Ryan Program, our residents reach competency in first trimester abortion by end of intern year with exposure to second trimester abortion starting in the first year and throughout the four years.”
(emphasis added)
That department also speaks of a so-called Complex Family Planning Fellowship providing “focused training in [so-called] complex family planning (complex family planning [sic] (including abortion …) …”
(emphasis added; editing error and redundant text in original)
“Notre Dame” is French for “Our Lady,” meaning the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the would-be “University of Notre Dame” continues to proclaim itself a Catholic institution as a fundamental basis for its character and credibility.
Even football marketing, on their twitter profile, tries to invoke the phrase “God, Country, Notre Dame.”
By playing abortion schools, ‘Notre Dame’ is enhancing the abortion schools’ revenue and prestige.
Perhaps even worse, they are contributing to the “business as usual” complacency that has made widespread prenatal filicide in America more possible, legitimizing the abortion institutions as simply being “part of the deal.”
Even worse, superficial courtesy usually in results in positive public statements being made about the abortion school or the history and would-be “tradition” of playing them.
Doing all of the above while the institution is named after the Blessed Virgin Mary sadly would imply that the Blessed Virgin Mary and her Divine Son are associated with such doings. That risks being charged with being disrespectful, insulting, and blasphemous to suggest such a thing.
These sad realities compound other problems already raised by honoring, and even hiring, pro-abortion politicians (in one case, a pro-abortion politician who also was a militant homosexual, holding himself out as married to a male schoolteacher from Mishawaka, with that politician later joining the Joe Biden administration).
Also concerning is the racial factor.
Whatever the demographics of abortion at Stanford, nationwide abortion has impacted Black Americans at a per capita rate several times that of whites.
It seems particularly cynical to, on the one hand, take advantage of the talent, hard work and self-sacrifice of so many Black athletes in football, while, on the other hand, boosting the legitimacy and prestige of institutions carrying out abortions, when nationwide abortion has been called an anti-Black genocide.
It is long overdue for ‘Notre Dame’ to boot Stanford, Southern Cal, Miami (Fla.), Pitt, and any other abortion-connected schools off the schedule, and to leave conferences that include abortion schools like the ACC, or the so-called B1G/Big Ten, which ‘Notre Dame’ joined in hockey.
Yet perhaps an initial question might be, how many people even knew about these realities. How many people realized that Stanford, Southern Cal, Miami (Fla.), Pitt, and other routine Irish opponents are involved with bloody enterprise of performing abortions and training abortionists.
Perhaps part of the modus operandi of this particular evil seems to be to seep “into the woodwork,” to get interwoven with institutions with other, completely unrelated, elements that build goodwill and prestige. Then those concocting such an arrangement can sit back and try to deflect scrutiny about the evil, while trying to poach the institutional goodwill and misplaced prestige.
(Steve Welsh – SCW 11.29.25)