Of pregnant students and Catholic schools

[LemonAndLime]

Im sorry, as someone considering the Catholic faith I am SHOCKED at the lack of charity and love shown on this board, this particular thread…this young lady should have been embraced and helped…she made a mistake, yes, but she was keeping her baby, I cannot believe Fordham would be so unfeeling…this is not the Church I envision…and peoples responses are not what I would envision from followers and lovers of Jesus…at all…it makes me feel rather horrible, to be honest, the lack of charity shown

I agree, but don’t let this forum put you off. A lot of people express things on the internet they wouldn’t feel comfortable saying to someone’s face - and for good reason.

 

[Mary_Gail_36]

However, my post was before Corki’s. So I did not know that the research behind the article may have been flawed.

I wasn’t trying to be snarky, I just was pointing you to Corki’s post.

 

[kama3]

How can they extend benefits and privelidges to a student who has acted immorally in the eyes of the Church, and at the same time teach the other students to follow those rules?

But 20 years ago in Poland Catholics wrote a law that legally forces a school (any school, including a Catholic one) to do just that – in order to remove incentive for abortion. From what’s happenning in this thread, I see that if such law was instituted in the US, it would be appealed by the concerned Catholics all the way up to SCOTUS.

Further: if the student in the story was aware that six her of colleagues aborted, then there is a deep moral rot in the student body anyway. How many girls could she be on friendly enough terms with to learn of that? Say no more than 50. So 6 abortions out of 50 women in one year, gives a rate of 12%. The school in question has about ca. 8000 undergrads, which means ca. 4000 women. That would mean 480 abortions a year. I really hope this part of the story is false or exagerrated, because otherwise… But if that part of the story is even remotely close to the truth, then I fail to see how helping a student who decides to give birth is going to erode the moral condition any more.

I agree that the policies of the institutions do contribute to abortion,

Let me rephrase that for you: I agree that the policies of the institutions do contribute to murdering innocent babies – how’s that? The paradox here is that I am closer to the pro-choice position and I find any policy which encourages abortion to be truly inhumane and revolting, while a crowd of pro-life people is busy defending it.

Re: the point that the University couldn’t house the girl on the campus for objective reasons – the article claims that they also revoked her housing stipend. Removal from campus fine, but render her unable to rent a dwelling place at the same time?

And yes, I would be relieved to learn that this is a fabrication. Sources contradicting the statements quoted in the OP would be welcome.