Former Abortion Provider Speaks at Loyola U. Chicago

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Former Abortion Provider Speaks at Loyola U. Chicago

I’ve heard some pretty outrageous things about Women’s Studies programs in my day, but this one takes the biscuit.

Judith Arcana was recently invited by the Loyola University Chicago Women’s Studies Department to be a guest lecturer in a bioethics class (Bioethics 395: The Ethics of Human Reproduction), and to do a performance of her own work.

Who is Judith Arcana, you ask? For two years, she was a member of The Abortion Counseling Service of the Chicago Women’s Liberation Union — which was better known by its nickname, “Jane”. Its history spanned a roughly five year period prior to the and Roe v. Wade**Doe v. Bolton Supreme Court decisions in 1973. (The picture of Arcana at the top of this post was taken during her time with Jane.) …

It’s bad enough when a Catholic university gives a platform to a pro-abortion politician or other public figure — that in itself [is prohibited by the U. S. Catholic Bishops](http://www.usccb.org/bishops/catholics(name removed by moderator)oliticallife.shtml). Loyola, like so many other Catholic universities, has done that before.

But the fact that a Catholic university has given a platform to someone who actually facilitated abortions, has no regrets about having done so, and who, by her own admission, understands that abortion is the taking of a baby’s life — takes the word “scandal” to a whole new level.

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[Jennifer123]

It never ceases to amaze me how twisted the field of ethics, especially Bioethics, has become. That an abortionist could lecture anyone about ethics, well, it’s beyond audacious IMHO.

 

[magician]

Why is this a scandal? If no one had seen the concentration camps at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen and heard the testimony, no one would believe it.
A common theme of anti-abortion activists is that abortion providers and those who have abortions don’t understand or acknowledge that a fetus is human life - that it is, in fact, alive.
This woman testifies that she knowingly kills a human life and thinks it’s acceptable.
This is an excellent lesson for the audience because, just like the Holocaust, until you hear the words and see the proof, you don’t believe it.
I applaud the University for sponsoring the lecture.

 

[Jennifer123]

Why is this a scandal? If no one had seen the concentration camps at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen and heard the testimony, no one would believe it.
A common theme of anti-abortion activists is that abortion providers and those who have abortions don’t understand or acknowledge that a fetus is human life - that it is, in fact, alive.
This woman testifies that she knowingly kills a human life and thinks it’s acceptable.
This is an excellent lesson for the audience because, just like the Holocaust, until you hear the words and see the proof, you don’t believe it.
I applaud the University for sponsoring the lecture.

Well if Auschwitz happened today, I wonder how long it would take before some “bioethicist” claimed it actually was compassionate, the Jews were suffering after all.

I know that sounds cynical but there are just some things that are intolerable. What Loyola is doing is patronizing in the least, but I’m willing to say it’s much, much worse.

I do hope you are right though and at least one heart and mind was changed.