Jesuit Seattle University Must Sever Planned Parenthood Ties
Seattle University must remove Planned Parenthood from campus and sever all ties with the abortion industry
Instances of Seattle University's cooperation with Planned Parenthood, as found on the University website, include: referring students to Planned Parenthood for "sexual health" services; allowing and promoting student internships with Planned Parenthood; hiring employees with past experience with Planned Parenthood and highlighting that experience on the University's website; and honoring students for their past work with Planned Parenthood.
PrintMANASSAS, VA. (Cardinal Newman Society) - A group of 16 national pro-life leaders, led by The Cardinal Newman Society (CNS) and Students for Life of America (SFLA), sent a letter to the President of Seattle University calling on him to put an end to the institution's numerous connections to Planned Parenthood and other pro-abortion rights organizations. The Catholic Church's unequivocal condemnation of abortion renders a Catholic university's association with any pro-abortion rights organization grossly inappropriate.
"Seattle University, as a Catholic and Jesuit institution, has a God-given responsibility to live up to its religious identity," said Patrick J. Reilly, CNS President. "Such an identity certainly precludes involvement with those organizations facilitating the slaughter of the innocents. May Seattle University today turn a corner and resolve to sever these scandalous connections."
Kristan Hawkins, Executive Director of Students for Life of America noted, "Promoting and glorifying Planned Parenthood and other abortion organizations on any campus is unacceptable, most especially on a Catholic campus. Planned Parenthood is the nation's abortion Goliath and has repeatedly been found to protect rapists, racists, and sex traffickers of minors. Time and time again, Planned Parenthood has proved its business is abortion, plain and simple. Seattle University must remove Planned Parenthood from campus and sever all ties with the abortion industry."
Instances of Seattle University's cooperation with Planned Parenthood, as found on the University website, include: referring students to Planned Parenthood for "sexual health" services; allowing and promoting student internships with Planned Parenthood; hiring employees with past experience with Planned Parenthood and highlighting that experience on the University's website; and honoring students for their past work with Planned Parenthood.
Among the groups that signed on were Priests for Life, Human Life International, Susan B. Anthony List, Concerned Women for America, Live Action, Human Life Alliance, Catholics United for the Faith, Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute, Culture of Life Foundation, and many others.
Other pro-abortion rights organizations with connections to Seattle University, also uncovered on the University's website, include the Feminist Majority Foundation, Legal Momentum, and the National Organization for Women. Read the summary of the University's pro-abortion rights connections here.
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Keywords: Planned Parenthood, Seattle University, Ex Corde Ecclesia, Abortion, Dissent, Cardinal Newman Society, Students for Life
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I'm truly tired of the callousness towards human life in the Pacific Northwest.
PhillipEdmund, check the link in the article's byline--the Society has a list of Magisterium-faithful colleges & a guide for choosing colleges. Hope this helps!
What is wrong with the Jesuits! I'll bet St. Ignatius Loyola is thundering in Heaven. Don't people know you have to be consistebt in thought ,word and deed? If you say you're prolife you don't work with, or promote or use the services of an abortion provider. Have the Jesuits lost control over their own institutions? Something a Bishop can do about this, if a religious order flaunts Church teaching, is he can tell them they can no longer be in his diocese. They'd have to leave or lose all Church support.
Is Georgetown University living up to its religious identity?
Are these universities actually affiliated with the Catholic church or is it just marketing ploy? How do we know which one to choose? Does anyone know how serious Duquesne of Pittsburgh is about Catholicism...
Yet another university that is no longer Catholic! All Jesuits on the faculty, possibly even on campus, should be excommunicated! As for whoever allowed PP on campus, do they not realize they are in a state of mortal sin?
"When GOD gives life it is forever" and no human being has a
right to destroy a human life except in self defense or defending
someone else. Also all other options must be considered if possible
before killing anyone. Check the Catecism of the the Catholic Church
to get the exact wording.