{"id":1782380,"date":"2022-12-21T08:02:29","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T13:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1782380"},"modified":"2022-12-21T08:02:33","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T13:02:33","slug":"a-catholic-college-just-gave-its-first-ethics-award-to-a-pro-abortion-journalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-catholic-college-just-gave-its-first-ethics-award-to-a-pro-abortion-journalist\/","title":{"rendered":"A Catholic College Just Gave Its First Ethics Award To A Pro-Abortion Journalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Fa-catholic-college-just-gave-its-first-ethics-award-to-a-pro-abortion-journalist%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=1782380&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>On the first of the month, the nation\u2019s only Catholic Spiritan university <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1z1aVw0Vtds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">honored<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adweek.com\/tvnewser\/yamiche-alcindor-discusses-importance-of-economic-and-geographic-diversity-in-national-newsrooms\/519650\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NBC News Washington correspondent Yamiche Alcindor<\/a> with the school\u2019s inaugural \u201cDuquesne University Award for Ethics and Integrity in Journalism.\u201d\u00a0Duquesne President Ken Gormley presented Alcindor with the honor at the National Press Club in D.C.<\/p>\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/news\/education\/2022\/11\/30\/yamiche-alcindor-duquense-university-institute-for-ethics-journalism-nbc-washington-week-ken-gormley-lynne-hayes-freeland\/stories\/202211300075\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">interview<\/a> with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette<em> <\/em>prior to the event, Gormley stated that Alcindor was selected because her journalistic approach aligned with the Congregation of the Holy Spirit\u2019s mission to ensure that \u201call voices are heard.\u201d He neglected to mention that the honoree, a self-described Catholic, has repeatedly ignored voices supporting the unborn.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During the award ceremony, Alcindor claimed that \u201cevery\u201d woman she spoke with on the ground in the 10 to 15 states she visited leading up to this year\u2019s midterm election, including those identifying as conservative, was\u00a0\u201cuncomfortable\u201d with the decision in <em>Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health Organization<\/em> that overturned <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Alcindor\u2019s recollection is highly unlikely, according to her own broadcast network. NBC News exit polls conducted on Election Day <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2022-elections\/exit-polls?icid=election_nav\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">found<\/a> that 87 percent of Republican women were enthusiastic or satisfied with the overturning of <em>Roe<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The polling data also defied Alcindor\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/transcripts\/reidout\/transcript-reidout-9-13-22-n1298895\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">assertion<\/a> made during an episode of \u201cThe ReidOut\u201d in September that Republican women were \u201cextremely upset\u201d about the reversal of <em>Roe<\/em>. Earlier in the month, she had also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/nbc-e2-80-99s-alcindor-says-republican-women-voting-democrat-for-first-time-over-new-e2-80-98enthusiasm-on-abortion\/ar-AA11zcDU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">suggested<\/a> that potential female voters in the battleground states of Florida, Michigan, and Ohio were enthusiastic about the \u201chuman right\u201d of abortion.<\/p>\n<p>Alcindor didn\u2019t shy away from fearmongering leading up to the Supreme Court decision. While discussing the potential overturning of <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> during an MSNBC appearance in May, she <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/townhallcom\/status\/1521562870261202945?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1521562870261202945%7Ctwgr%5E48945d120325177ca44147d0fcf38bbd90af9c30%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nationalreview.com%2Fnews%2Fyamiche-alcindor-overturning-roe-would-result-in-pregnancies-that-will-turn-into-children%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">shared<\/a> her concern that the downfall of <em>Roe<\/em> would result in women being forced to carry pregnancies that they \u201ccannot afford to terminate\u201d and \u201cwill then turn into children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite openly sharing her personal bias on cable news, Alcindor insisted during the award ceremony that her career beginnings in local journalism taught her she cannot \u201cjust go on TV and say whatever I want\u201d because she doesn\u2019t want to be the type of person who \u201ctells you what I think.\u201d\u00a0Gormley praised the journalist for her commitment to \u201cbalanced, ethical reporting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While accepting her award, Alcindor brought up the importance of advocacy for \u201cvulnerable populations\u201d based on her belief that all people are \u201ccreated equally.\u201d She steered clear of revealing whether she thought babies in the womb were deserving of any form of legal protection at all.<\/p>\n<p>Honoring Alcindor wasn\u2019t the first questionable decision by Duquesne related to abortion this year.\u00a0In April, Gormley signed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.with.pitt.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/allegheny_conference_on_community_development_.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">letter<\/a> in support of the University of Pittsburgh\u2019s annual state funding after lawmakers <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/07\/08\/pitts-infamous-experimentation-on-aborted-babies-takes-center-stage-in-state-funding-battle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">considered<\/a> providing money directly to students because of Pitt\u2019s horrific fetal tissue experiments that have relied on babies from elective abortions.<\/p>\n<p>Gormley, who was once <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2015\/02\/04\/wolf-taps-duquesne-law-dean-for-state-supreme.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">nominated<\/a> by pro-abortion Gov. Tom Wolf for a position on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, penned the letter alongside Leslie Davis, who oversees the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/11\/29\/pennsylvania-governor-celebrates-hospital-accused-of-grotesque-fetal-experiments\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hospital<\/a> that provides Pitt with fetal organs and does more abortion procedures than<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yamiche Alcindor emphasized advocacy for &#8216;vulnerable populations&#8217; but avoided saying if babies in the womb deserve legal protection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1078,"featured_media":1782383,"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":[546],"tags":[6631,6011,4023,4381,6919,6794,10495],"class_list":["post-1782380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-award","tag-catholic","tag-college","tag-ethics","tag-federalist","tag-journalist","tag-pro-abortion"],"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\/1782380","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\/1078"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1782380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1782383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1782380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1782380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1782380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}