We Will Not Be Silenced

Michie · Jul 13, 2023

The Rover faces a baseless lawsuit from a Notre Dame professor

After months of leveling false accusations and fundraising for litigation] against the Irish Rover, Notre Dame Professor Tamara Kay has filed a civil suit in the state of Indiana, claiming that two recent Irish Rover articles contained “defamatory and false statements.” Professor Kay’s allegations against the Rover are entirely false. And her lawsuit reflects only the latest stage in a tenured professor’s baseless public campaign against undergraduates at her own university who had the temerity to publish accurate stories about her very public abortion advocacy.

Abortion Advocacy Exposed

Since 2003, the Irish Rover’s mission has been to defend the Catholic faith and honorable traditions of the University of Notre Dame. As such, the Rover unequivocally supports the university’s commitment to the dignity of every human life from conception to natural death.

In the October 12, 2022 edition of the Irish Rover, W. Joseph DeReuil, who was then editor-in-chief, reported on Professor Kay’s promotion of abortion access that fall. The report relied upon Kay’s public statements, including her presentation at a university-sponsored lecture, as well as an interview conducted by DeReuil.

Aside from the comments drawn from the interview, the facts reported in DeReuil’s article were already matters of public record. Nonetheless, Professor Kay responded to the article’s publication by backtracking, denying that she had made the statements recorded by the Rover.

The day after DeReuil’s article was published, Professor Kay took shots at the Rover in the course of tweeting about more sympathetic coverage of her abortion advocacy in the student-run magazine Scholastic. She tweeted that, unlike the Rover, Scholasticdoesn’t “publish lies.” Professor Kay continued: “Oh, and very important — a fantastic journalist [ ] actually…wait for it… INTERVIEWED ME for the piece and quoted me accurately (unlike the other for which there was absolutely no interview).”

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