{"id":1725675,"date":"2022-11-06T18:48:03","date_gmt":"2022-11-06T23:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1725675"},"modified":"2022-11-06T18:48:38","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T23:48:38","slug":"catholic-notre-dame-university-pulled-money-from-pro-life-event-over-ben-shapiro-speech-pro-abortion-sex-work-events-had-no-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/catholic-notre-dame-university-pulled-money-from-pro-life-event-over-ben-shapiro-speech-pro-abortion-sex-work-events-had-no-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Catholic Notre Dame University Pulled Money From Pro-Life Event Over Ben Shapiro Speech. Pro-Abortion, \u2018Sex Work\u2019 Events Had No Issues."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcatholic-notre-dame-university-pulled-money-from-pro-life-event-over-ben-shapiro-speech-pro-abortion-sex-work-events-had-no-issues%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1725675&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/professor-at-catholic-notre-dame-university-helps-students-access-abortions-despite-indiana-abortion-ban\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">University of Notre Dame<\/a> refused to sponsor an event with Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro, but supported events with pro-abortion and pro-prostitution advocates.<\/p>\n<p>Right to Life Michiana, a pro-life activist group, celebrated its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prolifemichiana.org\/upcoming-events\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">annual benefit<\/a> in October; the university is typically the largest sponsor of the event. But according to Notre Dame\u2019s Catholic conservative student newspaper, <a href=\"https:\/\/irishrover.net\/2022\/11\/11577\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Irish Rover<\/a>, the school abruptly pulled its money, and prohibited student groups from donating or selling tickets because Shapiro was set to be the featured speaker. But the university hosted a pro-abortion event the same night, and allowed a student group to pay for an event with a \u201csex work\u201d advocate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis year, a university administrator decided that Right to Life Michiana\u2019s invited speaker transgressed the bounds of acceptable pro-life discourse,\u201d Irish Rover editor emerita Mary Frances Myler reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNotre Dame eschewed sponsorship, and, as the fiduciary for all university-affiliated groups, forbade those groups from donating to the benefit or purchasing tickets. The stated grounds? Ben Shapiro\u2019s presence conflicts with the Catholic mission component of the university\u2019s charitable giving policy,\u201d Myler added.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, on-campus pro-life group Notre Dame Right to Life had already purchased tickets to the benefit, with the approval of the University, but were abruptly halted by the Student Activities Office without reason.<\/p>\n<p>Notre Dame Right to Life President Merlot Fogarty and several members met with Chuck Lamphier, executive director of Notre Dame\u2019s Office of Mission Engagement and Church Affairs, for answers. Lamphier reportedly told them that \u201cthis speaker is problematic,\u201d citing a tweet Shapiro wrote in 2010. He said the event itself was problematic, and that \u201cuniversity dollars [were] not going to go to it.\u201d He did, however, say the university would continue to support Right to Life Michiana in other ways that did not publicly connect them to Ben Shapiro, The Irish Rover reported.<\/p>\n<p>But the same night as the benefit event took place, Notre Dame\u2019s Gender Studies Program and Institute on Race and Resilience co-sponsored an <a href=\"https:\/\/genderstudies.nd.edu\/events-and-news\/events\/2022\/10\/27\/post-roe-america-making-intersectional-feminist-sense-of-abortion-bans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">event with abortion activists<\/a>. One of the panelists at the event, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/slaumsu89\/details\/experience\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sharon Lau<\/a>, is currently employed as regional advocacy director for South Bend-based abortion clinic Whole Women\u2019s Health. According to her LinkedIn page, she has previously worked for\u00a0Planned Parenthood and the National Abortion Federation. Another panelist was Democratic Indiana State Rep. Maureen Bower, who called abortion a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/indianahousedemocrats.org\/news-media\/bauer-remarks-on-republican-abortion-ban-final-vote\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">basic human right<\/a>\u201d during the debate over Indiana\u2019s state abortion ban in August.<\/p>\n<p>Just days before the event, another student group was allowed to use its money on a speaking fee for an event hosted by the University\u2019s LGBT Law Forum, entitled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EudaimoniaEsq\/status\/1580938423732699137?s=20&#038;t=wyWp4aG_CTT6Vj42fwooKA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Decriminalizing Sex Work<\/a>.\u201d The speaker at that event was <a href=\"https:\/\/cruelvalentine.com\/#home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cruel Valentine<\/a>, a Chicago-based burlesque performer, porn star, and sex worker. \u201cValentine lectured about the \u2018whorearchy,\u2019 protested the stigmatization of sex work, and called for the elimination of legal consequences for individuals who either solicit or provide sexual services in exchange for money,\u201d The Irish Rover reported. Both events were protected by the University\u2019s academic freedom policies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[U]niversity administrators weaponized policies to obstruct charitable giving to Right to Life Michiana because the guest speaker tweeted something unpalatable more than a dozen years ago,\u201d Myler wrote. \u201cAnd this apparently makes him worse than the women who perpetuate the lie that abortion is a right, worse than the woman who has dedicated her life to stripping away legal protections for vulnerable people coerced into an exploitative economy inseparable from sex trafficking, human trafficking, pornography, and abuse.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Notre Dame refused to sponsor an event with Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro, but supported events with pro-abortion and pro-prostitution advocates. Right to Life Michiana, a pro-life activist group, celebrated its annual benefit in October; the university is typically the largest sponsor of the event. But according to Notre Dame\u2019s Catholic &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":1725678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1725675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1725675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1725678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1725675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1725675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1725675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}