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University of Pittsburgh Trains Abortionists and Notre Dame Should Drop Them, Even If It Means Leaving the ACC

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The Catholic Faith regards abortion, the deliberate killing of innocent human life in her mother’s womb, as such a serious evil that Catholic Canon Law provides automatic excommunication for abortion.

Yet Notre Dame’s football schedule and conference affiliations are riddled with open and notorious abortion providers and trainers of abortionists.

The University of Pittsburgh is one of them.

In just one example, Pitt’s website for a fellowship program in the University of Pittsburgh’s “Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Services” explains that they offer training in the actual performance of first- and second-trimester abortions:

“… The fellow will receive specialized training and become very experienced performing first trimester abortions including manual vacuum aspiration and medical abortions. In addition, the fellow will have similarly specialized and intensive experience with second trimester abortion by dilation and evacuation (D&E). …”

[from obgyn.pitt.edu/fellowships/family-planning-fellowship-programs/family-planning-2-years, accessed on Oct. 12, 2018]

As the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops explains, the dilation and extraction method is particularly brutal and involves dismemberment.  The Pitt website does not indicate whether additional methods are used to kill the unborn child inside the womb before the dismemberment occurs.

Additionally, abortion bans focusing on pain-capable unborn children seem to focus on 20 weeks in the womb (roughly 4.7 months) as one threshold for considering when the unborn child can feel pain.  The Pitt website does not indicate how far into the second trimester (months 4 to 6 of pregnancy) for which Pitt trains abortionists.

A partial screenshot from the Pitt website is embedded below:

By scheduling such an institution in athletics, the University of Notre Dame is lending wealth and prestige to an abortion provider.

In this case, Pitt also apparently has dedicated itself to the ongoing propagation of Abortionism as a whole by inviting physicians-in-training to come receive training as abortionists.

By scheduling abortion providers like Pitt, Notre Dame, directly or indirectly, also is contributing to the complacency and “business as usual” quietism that has resulted in nearly 60 million abortions in the United States.

Indeed, the University of Notre Dame might also never know whether specific individual deaths have occurred because a woman, perhaps under pressure, lapsed into having an abortion in connection with the University of Pittsburgh because Notre Dame acted as if Pitt was a reputable institution instead of a violent human rights violator, and that contributed to a haze of complacency with America’s biggest and bloodiest human rights violation.

The University of Pittsburgh has chosen to be open and notorious with their participation in this deadly evil, while the University of Notre Dame seems to have failed to speak out Pitt’s malevolence.  Instead, Notre Dame partners with them by joining their conference and scheduling them as an athletic opponent.

“Notre Dame” is French for “Our Lady,” referring to the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of Jesus and a model for all mothers.

Abortion kills human life and is an assault on motherhood itself.

Abortion kills children in the womb, harms women, disproportionately targets female children in their mother’s womb, and, in the United States especially, disproportionately targets Blacks.

Notre Dame famously has an engraving over a side door at its Basilica of the Sacred Heart honoring “God, Country and Notre Dame.”

Since abortion has killed more Americans in the womb than the numbers of Americans killed in all wars, it would be difficult not to consider abortion as anything other than anti-American, the biggest threat to the security of American lives and a form of treason itself, especially considering its magnitude.

Surgical abortion alone, by approaching roughly 60 million dead, also is getting close to the number of votes needed to win the presidency.  As a result, abortion poses an existential threat to the legitimacy of American democracy.  For example, consider the prospet of a pro-abortion candidate getting elected President with 60 million votes, while 60 million voted against him and 60 million additional Americans have been killed in the womb by policies that the pro-abortion candidate has pushed.  That would be akin to Hitler murdering 6 million Jews, having 6 million opponents vote against him, getting 6 million votes (compared with 12 million either voting against him or killed by policies he supports) and then claiming that he was the duly elected leader of a democracy.  (One major difference, of course, is that, when Hitler did originally stand for election, not as many understood just where it would lead.)

For Notre Dame to schedule an opponent institution that performs abortions is anti-God, anti-Blessed Mother, anti-Catholic, anti-American, anti-woman, anti-child and anti-Black.

Doing so also creates a hostile climate for Catholics, Woman, Blacks, loyal Americans, faithful Christians, Jews, Muslims, other persons of religious belief and persons of decency, and anybody who can think straight.

(As an aside, a cursory check reveals that the Pitt student newspaper already has even featured at least one anti-Catholic op-ed attacking a local Catholic hospital for following Catholic teaching by refusing to perform prenatal child-killing, referenced by the euphemism of “abortion.”)

The University of Notre Dame and those who want to help Notre Dame better itself as an institution need to “draw a line” in the sand, to ensure this kind of thing does not happen again, and to find ways to undo the harms that result.

Pitt, of course, is part of the Atlantic Coast Conference, the “ACC,” which Notre Dame joined in most sports, instead of joining with the predominantly Catholic institutions of the new BIG EAST.  Partnering with the ACC in football, Notre Dame is required to play Pitt every few years, roughly twice each half-decade.  The partnership is in exchange for Notre Dame getting access to ACC minor bowl games, in those seasons when Notre Dame does not make the College Football Playoff, and apparently also facilitates Notre Dame playing in the ACC in basketball and other sports.

(Notre Dame tainted itself further by joining the B1G/Big Ten in hockey, with that conference also including abortion providers.)

The fact that Notre Dame continued to schedule Pitt as an independent, and joined conferences like the ACC and the B1G/Big Ten that include abortion providers, calls into question the leadership and diligence of university officials at Notre Dame — who either apparently do not care enough about Notre Dame’s Catholicism or fail to conduct due diligence to understand whom they are dealing with and the implications of the University of Notre Dame’s own conduct with scheduling and conference affiliations.

Pitt is not the only abortion provider in the ACC.  Yet even if it was, Pitt would be reason enough for Notre Dame to leave the ACC, if the University of Pittsburgh fails to clean up its act and if the ACC fails to kick them out.


 

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North Carolina State Moral and Ethical Lapses on Abortion and “Contraceptives” Serve as Reminder that Notre Dame Needs to Leave the ACC

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Catholic Canon Law provides for automatic excommunication for abortion. Additionally, under Catholic teaching, artificial contraception is a mortal sin, undertaken at peril of eternal damnation and barring the perpetrator from receiving Holy Communion until they repent and undertake a valid Confession.

Given the fact that some ACC members institutions perform abortions and/or train abortionists, Notre Dame has no business belonging to the ACC, playing ACC opponents, or otherwise enhancing the ACC’s prestige or bolstering ACC revenues.

North Carolina State might not openly announce involvement with surgical abortion, the way that, for example, Miami of Florida and Pitt have. But North Carolina State’s supposed campus “health” center, at healthypack.dasa.ncsu.edu/care-provided/womens-health/pregnancy-options/, openly admits that it will suggest abortion as an option for pregnant women. They also, on their webpage itself, refer pregnant women, for supposed guidance, to the biggest abortion provider in the United States, so-called Planned Parenthood, as well as other pro-abortion “resources.” Particularly cynical and nauseating is a referral to a supposed “religious” resource that will suggest that prenatal child-killing is somehow consistent with religious faith. The latter point, of course, could only be considered blasphemous, if not demonic.

North Carolina State’s campus “health” provider also indicates a willingness to provide so-called “contraceptives” at healthypack.dasa.ncsu.edu/care-provided/womens-health/.

Artificial contraception by itself, as mentioned above, is gravely sinful. Yet, additionally, in at least some cases, regular so-called “birth control” pills actually also can cause chemical abortions. And North Carolina State’s campus “health” center also specifically references “morning after” pills as well.

Given these serious and harmful ethical and moral lapses, Notre Dame should never play North Carolina State and should leave the ACC.

In fact, the obvious question arises — why did Notre Dame join or partner with the ACC in the first place? This shocking situation calls into question whether there is a lack of due diligence, lack of leadership and lack of proper moral judgment among relevant university staff, including those making six- or seven-figure salaries.

Let’s pray to do God’s Will, and let’s get the facts. “The Truth shall set you free.”

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Should Notre Dame drop Southern Cal over Abortion? Yes.

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Under the Catholic Code of Canon Law, abortion brings automatic excommunication.

But, not unlike a luxury mansion that turns out to be infested with rats, vermin and hidden mold, Notre Dame’s football schedule is riddled with institutions that perform abortions. One of them, apparently, is the University of Southern California.

The author thought that, in the past, Southern Cal was a little more open and notorious when it came to admitting their willingness to perform abortions (as were, for example, upcoming opponents Miami of Florida and Stanford). The information is not necessarily as easy to find, yet, with a little patience, the information is still there. On the USC.edu website, Southern Cal’s Keck School of Medicine has a section for Southern Cal’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, keck.usc.edu/obstetrics-and-gynecology/ that, in turn, has a link entitled “Learn more about patient care” that jumps to: keck.usc.edu/obstetrics-and-gynecology/patient-care/. That webpage, in turn, has a line that reads: “If you are a patient seeking information about our clinical services, please visit: women.keckmedicine.org.” That last webpage, reading “Keck Medicine of USC – Women’s Health – About USC Women’s Health,” has a subsection further down headed “Conditions we treat” that includes, in its list, the items “Abortion” and “Birth Control.”

(Since abortion and birth control are not conditions but a procedure or supposed “service”, one gathers that the list is actual presenting conditions, procedures and services. By comparison, another item listed is “Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery.”)

(Now, for the record, under Catholic teaching, artificial birth control also is considered a mortal sin, under risk of eternal damnation; although at least some chemical contraceptives tend to potentially cause chemical abortions, as it, and abortion itself additionally brings automatic excommunication.)

Southern Cal does not, at least on that webpage, elaborate about methods and procedures, or how far along in the development of a child in her mother’s womb they are willing to kill the preborn child.  For example, they do not indicate if they would employ dismember procedures after the point when the preborn child in her mother’s womb can feel pain, a subject currently being debated in Congress.

Southern Cal’s stated embracing of abortion is unspeakable and horrific.  For Notre Dame to — apparently obliviously — go ahead and schedule them anyhow, as if to hope nobody will notice the implications, speaks to a lack of leadership; some unholy blend of ignorance and lack of due diligence; lack of properly former moral character; and lack of properly formed conscience.  The scheduling brings embarrassment upon the university, taints the university’s character and reputation and calls into question the appropriateness of its leadership and their conduct.

By playing an abortion provider in football, Notre Dame is wrongly and improperly lending prestige and credibility to the opposing institution, as well as enhancing the opponent’s immediate and ongoing revenue.

Even worse, Notre Dame contributes to the air of moral complacency and obliviousness that helps make the widespread abortion epidemic possible.  By scheduling an abortion perpetrator, Notre Dame lends an air of “business as usual” that brushes the biggest evil facing the nation “under the rug.”

If Southern Cal ran overseas plantations where Southern Cal owned slaves, would Notre Dame schedule them? Yet abortion is even far more deadly, and more evil.

By lending wealth and prestige to an abortion provider, Notre Dame is lending wealth and prestige to parties whom Catholic Church Law excommunicates, so that, Notre Dame, as an institution, is, once again, thumbing its nose at the Catholic Faith and demonstrating a lack of fidelity to Christ.

Doing so under the name “Notre Dame,” which is French for “Our Lady,” in reference to Mary, the Mother of God, and doing so while claiming to be nominally Catholic Christian, the institution is insulting the Name of Mary and, in turn, the Holy Name of Her Son and His Mystical Body the Church.

Abortion, the cold-blooded murder of unborn children, is a grotesque human rights violation.  By scheduling a human rights violator, Notre Dame is lending wealth and prestige to human rights violators.

Notre Dame claims to have a motto of God, Country and Notre Dame, but abortion has killed more Americans than all wars combined.  It is the biggest threat to American lives that is, almost the equivalent, on average, of having 9/11 occur every day.  Whatever the numbers might be for Southern Cal, that institution’s willingness to advertise involvement with abortion makes Southern Cal a part of it.

Additionally, Notre Dame’s apparent blasé, “business as usual” attitude about the scheduling adds to the complacency and quietism surrounding the evil of abortion that has allowed it to take root and proliferate to begin with.  Playing a game against an abortion provider as if it’s something fun and every day makes Notre Dame part of a de facto “grooming” process to undermine the national conscience.

Then there is the racial factor.

Football has a disproportionately large number of African American athletes, a factor that, a few decades ago, presumably helped convince the NFL to take a particular state to task over whether the state would have a holiday focusing on civil rights.  Race also is a factor in the current protests relating to the national anthem at sporting events. So concern over fair treatment of diverse ethnic groups has been an ethical priority for football.

Abortion has been termed an anti-Black genocide by some, due to the disproportionate racist impact of abortion, killing African American children in the womb at a rate far higher than white children, as compared with the demographics of the broader population.  The biggest abortion provider in the United States was founded by someone who once declared the purpose of the organization to be to limit the number of “Negro” babies, who, on at least one occasion, spoke to a KKK organization.

Similarly, football has tried to concern itself with the proper treatment of women, and the need to show proper regard for women.  Not only does abortion strike at the heart of one important part of womanhood by striking at the heart of motherhood; abortion has been termed a kind of “Gendercide” because of its to deliberately kill unborn children because they are girls, especially in cultures placing a higher value on boys than girls.

Regardless of Southern Cal’s specific numbers, they have chosen to associate themselves, as an institution, with abortion, and hold themselves out as performing abortions.

It is for Southern Cal’s own good, and for the sake of Notre Dame’s own reputation and moral character, that Notre Dame should drop Southern Cal from athletic schedules, unless and an until Southern Cal disavows prenatal child-killing, including under the propagandistic rubric of so-called “abortion.”

 

 

 

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