Notre Dame ‘Abortion Doula’ Talk Was Unworthy of Catholic University, Local Bishop Laments

The National Catholic Register ^ | 3/22/23 | Kevin J. Jones

[marshmallow]

‘Not surprisingly, inviting an abortion doula to provide an unrebutted case for abortion has prompted a great deal of concern and criticism around the country and in our diocese,’ Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades of Fort Wayne-South Bend said.

The University of Notre Dame’s local bishop has strongly criticized the Catholic university for hosting a “reproductive justice” talk featuring abortion doula Ash Williams, who described abortion as “a type of birth.”

According to a National Public Radio profile, Williams’ role as an abortion doula is to provide “physical, emotional, or financial help to people seeking to end a pregnancy.” In remarks during the event on March 20, Williams, who identifies as a trans man, explicitly rejected the idea that the number of abortions should be reduced.

“Not surprisingly, inviting an abortion doula to provide an unrebutted case for abortion has prompted a great deal of concern and criticism around the country and in our diocese,” Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades of Fort Wayne-South Bend said in his March 21 column for the diocesan newspaper Today’s Catholic. “I share these concerns and consider the decision to feature such a speaker on campus to be both intellectually unserious and unworthy of a great Catholic research university.”

Bishop Rhoades objected that the event sponsors provided an abortion facilitator “a platform for unanswered pro-abortion activism.” The lecture series, he said, “appears to be an explicit act of dissent from Notre Dame’s admirable institutional commitment to promoting a culture of life that embraces and affirms the intrinsic equal dignity of the unborn, pregnant mothers, and families.”

[FlyingEagle]

What’s a doula? Some kind of abortionist crone?

[nicollo]

"Doula" -- Wokespeak for midwife.

I doubt any of these fools know that "doula" is the feminine of the Greek doulos for slave or servant. Thus "doula" is a servant-woman.

Too bad this one is serving Satan, though.

[353FMG]

Since when is Notre Dame a Catholic university?