The Bushes were always pro-abortion. The only hiatuses were during the Reagan Administration and the two Bush Administrations. Have you ever heard a pro-life peep out of GHWB after 1993 or GWB after 2009? All the Bush women—Barbara, Laura (and that whole generation), Barbara and Jenna, etc., are pro-abortion.
I think it was William Bentley Ball who went around to many Catholic law schools in 1955 or so, telling them there was a movement to legalize abortion. He was laughed out of the offices at every single institution.
Hesburgh and Notre Dame were bought and paid for by the Ford and Rockefeller foundations by the mid-fifties. First, they came out as pro-contraception. They are now, of course, pro-abortion. They signal this fact by giving honorary degrees and other awards to pro-aborts, as have many bishops.
Fr. Richard McBrien was pro-abortion. He lived just off-campus with a concubine for years and years, a fact known to every sentient being on campus. No bishop of Bridgeport (Ct.) or South Bend ever lifted a finger.
Now the Pope is pro-abortion.
My oldest brother graduated from Notre Dame in 1963 and he is sick to see what it has become.