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