Posted on 10/29/2014 8:28:14 PM PDT by NYer
While dedicated pro-lifers work to save babies, St. Norbert College will be doing something oddly different: welcoming radical pro-abortionist Gloria Steinem to speak on campus. The talk is scheduled next semester on April 21, 2015, according to a news release issued by the college.
Every pro-lifer should sign this peaceful protest today
Given that St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wisconsin is a Catholic institution, the invitation is causing confusion and scandal. Pro-life students and alumni are deeply troubled by the decision which, if not canceled, will give a Catholic platform to a notorious activist who publicly promotes the killing of innocent children.
Gloria Steinem and abortion: In a 2011 interview with Abortion Review, she boasted about her own abortion at age 22, saying: “…it felt positive.”
“It [abortion] is supposed to make us a bad person. But I must say, I never felt that. I used to sit and try and figure out how old the child would be, trying to make myself feel guilty. But I never could! I think the person who said: ‘Honey, if men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament’ was right.”
On another occasion, speaking at a pro-abortion fundraiser for Planned Parenthood, Steinem said: “There is no organization in this country or the world that is more important than Planned Parenthood.”
(NJ.com, Sept. 17, 2011)
More recently, she stated: “Approximately one in three women in this country needs an abortion at some time in her life. It should be a part of reproductive rights.”
(The Washington Post, Nov. 19, 2013)
Help Cancel Gloria Steinem’s Talk
TFP Student Action invites you and all its readers to call for the immediate cancellation of Gloria Steinem’s talk at St. Norbert College. The Culture of Death must not be promoted on any Catholic campus. Nor should any pro-abortion activists be given a platform to spread falsehood and further undermine the precious moral teaching of the Holy Catholic Church.
This issue is not about academic freedom.
This issue is all about being faithful to God. About being true to our baptismal vows. About having the moral courage to reverse one of the worst scourges that ever hit American society: 55 million surgical abortions, 55 million mortal sins, 55 million innocent lives snuffed out in the name of “choice.”
Sign this peaceful protest here
The unborn depend on you and your voice. Stand up for the truth.
Contact information (be polite yet firm)
Mr. Thomas Kunkel
President, St. Norbert College
1527 Fox Ridge Court
De Pere, WI 54115
Office: (920) 403-3165
Home: (920) 632-7485
Email: thomas.kunkel@snc.edu
There's a lot of that going around.
Shameful and I’ll bet at a minimum, she makes 20 K or so to speak. De Pere Wisconsin looks like it is kind of near Green Bay.
Relevant Radio is based in Wisconsin, it is Catholic radio. I will email them this story.
I stopped supporting the church years ago. IMHO except for their stand on abortion they are as liberal as that arrogant nurse from Maine,
WTH makes these decisions, and approves them?
Everyone associated with this should be fired
Hard up for money Gloria.
Really, it is almost absurd, it almost beggars belief that someone could make such a speaking engagement. I hope they didn’t pay ahead of time because I’d imagine they’d get a lot of protests over this.
to paraphrase the pope, we must look for the good in the pro-abort gloria steinem.... /bad people are wonderful
Catholic colleges (IMHO) never recovered from the fact that BJ Clinton went to Georgetown; what a ringing endorsement.
Catholic education has become an option limited to the wealthy, and as such I see no need to give my hard-earned money while I’m dealing with bills and debt of my own while raising children that will never receive such an education.
St. Norbert ought to remember that if all women had abortions, then they would not have any students to teach.
Seems like usual the Catholic church seems more interested in money than abortion.
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