The University of Michigan Performs Abortions, and Notre Dame Should Not Schedule Them

The Catholic Faith regards abortion as such a serious evil, the deliberate killing of innocent human life in her mother’s womb, 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.

One is the University of Michigan. They do not advertise it heavily, but they do admit on their medical center website their willingness and readiness to perform abortions.

By scheduling such an institution Notre Dame is lending wealth and prestige to the abortion institution, failing to speak out against the evil and contributing to the complacency and “business as usual” quietism that has resulted in nearly 60 million abortions in the United States.

“Notre Dame” is French for “Our Lady,” referring to the Blessed Virgin, 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 the womb, and disproportionately targets Black victims in the United States.

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 and anybody who can think straight.

Notre Dame and those who want to help the 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.