Notre Dame cancels funding for pro-life event while supporting pro-abortion event

The pro-life annual benefit event was described by a university official as ‘problematic.’

The University of Notre Dame, a Catholic educational institution, refused their support for a pro-life event — yet hosted a pro-abortion event on the same night. Writing for the Irish Rover, Mary Frances Myler explained that Right to Life Michiana held an event celebrating 50 years of fighting for life at an annual benefit on October 27.

For over a decade, Notre Dame has sponsored the event — until this year.

“This year, a university administrator decided that Right to Life Michiana’s invited speaker transgressed the bounds of acceptable pro-life discourse,” Myler said. “Ben Shapiro needs no introduction, and my purpose in writing is not to defend him. But the university, worried that association with Shapiro would sully her good name, opted not to participate in this year’s pro-life benefit. They did not pass go, they did not give $200 — let alone their usual sum.”

Yet the same night, Myler noted, “[t]he Gender Studies Program and the Institute on Race and Resilience co-sponsored a community teach-in by ‘reproductive care advocates’ at the Civil Rights Heritage Center called ‘Post-Roe America: Making Intersectional Feminist Sense of Abortion Bans.’”

One panelist, Sharon Lau, is the regional advocacy director for abortion chain Whole Woman’s Health, and previously worked for Planned Parenthood and the National Abortion Federation. Another, Maureen Bauer, is an outspoken abortion advocate, and panelist Eli Williams has volunteered at abortion facilities.

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