Notre Dame has surely taken a hard turn left.
Notre Dame professors call pro-life activism a ‘white supremacist strategy’
SOUTH BEND, Indiana, February 18, 2019 (
LifeSiteNews) ― After showing students pro-abortion propaganda, two University of Notre Dame faculty members suggested that the pro-life movement is fuelled by white supremacy.
The viewing of the propaganda film Reversing Roe and subsequent discussion was sponsored by Notre Dame pro-abortion student group Irish 4 Reproductive Health, the Gender Studies Program of Notre Dame, and Saint Mary's Department of Gender and Women's Studies.
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detailed report on the January 22 event, Ellie Gardey of Notre Dame’s Irish Rover newspaper recorded the professors’ jaw-dropping remarks.
According to Gardey, Dianne Pinderhughes, a Notre Dame professor of political science, began a panel discussion of Reversing Roe by stating that pro-lifers were most likely to be those who want to keep America “white.”
“(Abortion) is an issue that allows for an effort to control the place of women,” she said.
“I’m sure you figured that out, or you wouldn’t be at this event. But also how people will reproduce, what the population will be, what it will be like,” she continued.
“Those who push so aggressively for reproduction, continued reproduction without any controls, are those who are also more likely to be in support of making sure the country stays predominantly, overwhelmingly white.”
Pam Butler, the associate director of Notre Dame’s gender studies program, agreed that pro-life activism springs from white supremacist beliefs.
“(Abortion) got politicized in a moment of a white supremacist strategy of the right wing of the Republican Party to mobilize a very specific set of evangelical Christians in the United States as a base,” she said.
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William Dempsey is the Chairman of Sycamore Trust, a group of Notre Dame alumni and alumnae committed to defending and preserving the university’s Catholic character. He told LifeSiteNews that the establishment of the gender studies is to blame for abortion propagandizing at Notre Dame.
“This pro-abortion event was unprecedented at Notre Dame,” he said by email.
Dempsey stated that it testified to the character of the gender studies program at the school and the growing influence of Irish 4 Reproductive Health in promoting contraception and freedom to abort.
“There was not a word about the central role of the Catholic Church or the burning faith of pro-life Catholics and Evangelicals for the simple reason that no one was allowed on the panel who would speak it,” he said.
“Irish 4 has now been welcomed by the University as a sponsor of a pro-abortion event even as it is suing the university in federal district court to compel it to offer students free abortifacients. How bizarre!”
Pro-life educator Ryan Bomberger, who is black, told LifeSiteNews that the suggestions the pro-life movement is fuelled by white supremacy would be “laughable if it weren’t about the slaughter of over 62 million human lives since Roe.”
“Rabidly pro-abortion Notre Dame professors ... calling pro-lifers ‘racists’ for tireless efforts to protect mothers and their unborn children, regardless of race or ethnicity, is truly a Twilight Zone moment,” he said.
“It’s a bizarre form of projection as they defend a violent institution actually birthed in eugenic racism and elitism. What worldview does the University of Notre Dame even hold to hire those whose extremist ideology is in direct conflict with Catholicism?” Bomberger asked.
Much more at the link:
Notre Dame professors call pro-life activism a ‘white supremacist strategy’
