{"id":1971080,"date":"2023-07-12T17:08:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T21:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pro-abortion-professor-sues-conservative-college-newspaper-for-defamation\/"},"modified":"2023-07-12T17:10:41","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T21:10:41","slug":"pro-abortion-professor-sues-conservative-college-newspaper-for-defamation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pro-abortion-professor-sues-conservative-college-newspaper-for-defamation\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-choice professor sues conservative college paper for defamation."},"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\">16<\/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%2Fpro-abortion-professor-sues-conservative-college-newspaper-for-defamation%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=1971080&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--><h2>A Pro-Abortion Professor Sues University&#8217;s Catholic Newspaper for Defamation<\/h2>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/get-this-s-the-f-out-of-here-professor-curses-at-pro-life-students-shoves-their-display-in-viral-video\/\" title=\"Profanity-laced video shows professor shoving pro-life display.\">pro-abortion professor<\/a> at the University of Notre Dame has filed a defamation lawsuit against the university&#8217;s Catholic conservative newspaper, the Irish Rover. Tamara Kay, a professor of global affairs and sociology, and a passionate advocate for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/argentina-church-asks-lawmakers-to-search-their-hearts-ahead-of-abortion-vote\/\" title=\"Argentina church asks lawmakers to search their hearts ahead of abortion vote\">abortion rights<\/a>, alleges that the newspaper intentionally published false and defamatory statements about her in two articles.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Her lawsuit reflects only the latest stage in a tenured professor&#8217;s baseless public campaign against undergraduates at her own university who had the temerity to publish accurate stories about her very public abortion advocacy,&#8221; the Irish Rover stated in response to Kay&#8217;s allegations.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The articles in question, published in October 2022 and March 2023, criticized Kay&#8217;s promotion of abortion access despite the university&#8217;s opposition to abortion and contraception. While Kay claims that the articles contained false and defamatory information, an analysis by the Daily Caller reveals that they accurately represented the substance of her statements and actions, with only minor inaccuracies in the quotes.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the lawsuit, Kay alleges that she has faced harassment, threats, and damage to her property as a result of the articles. However, Joseph DeRuil, the former editor of the Irish Rover, dismisses her claims, stating that there is no merit to them.<\/p>\n<p>In response to the lawsuit, the Irish Rover has filed an Anti-SLAPP motion, seeking to dismiss the professor&#8217;s claims. They believe that the lawsuit is an attempt to silence criticism, as SLAPP stands for &#8220;strategic lawsuits against public participation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The October article, written by DeRuil, accused Kay and other professors of offering assistance in obtaining Plan B and Plan C pills, which are not available on the pro-life university&#8217;s campus. The article also cited a message on Kay&#8217;s door and tweets from her Twitter account as evidence of her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-meets-pro-abortion-groups-on-anniversary-of-roe-v-wade-reversal\/\" title=\"Biden meets pro-choice groups on Roe v. Wade anniversary.\">pro-abortion activities<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The March article reported on Kay&#8217;s remarks at a College Democrats event, where she discussed her views on being a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/south-carolina-to-become-latest-state-to-pass-heartbeat-bill\/\" title=\"South Carolina to Become Latest State to Pass Heartbeat Bill\">pro-abortion advocate<\/a> at a university that does not allow student groups promoting abortion or contraceptives. Kay denies some of the claims made in the article.<\/p>\n<p>The University of Notre Dame has not yet addressed the lawsuit, but its president, Fr. John Jenkins, has previously disavowed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pro-abortion-professor-sues-conservative-college-newspaper-for-defamation\/\" title=\"Pro-choice professor sues conservative college paper for defamation.\">pro-abortion op-ed written<\/a> by Kay and reiterated the university&#8217;s stance against abortion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Notre Dame professor, Tamara Kay, has sued the university&#8217;s Catholic conservative newspaper for defamation. Kay, a pro-abortion advocate, filed a lawsuit on May 22, claiming that the Irish Rover intentionally made false and defamatory statements about her in two instances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2107,"featured_media":1971081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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-1971080","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\/1971080","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\/2107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1971080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1971081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1971080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1971080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1971080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}