Topic: Trinity (Dublin) prof rejected due to pro-choice stance
kuri
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posted 03 October 2005 10:25 AM
quote: Trinity law professor Ivana Bacik has accused Fordham University in New York of snubbing her, claiming that it cancelled a public lecture because of her campaign to legalise abortion in Ireland.
Bacik, who was due to give a long-scheduled lecture on Globalisation and Irish immigration last Friday, said she was angered at the Jesuit university's “discourteous'‘ snub.
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Hephaestion
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posted 03 October 2005 02:43 PM
What, New York is becoming more 'priest-ridden' and conservative regarding sexual politics than even Dublin?! Who'da thought????
Well, *some* Jesuits are a little more liberal than others, I guess, but I am still astonished by anyone who is surprised by the Roman Catholic church's retrograde attitude on matters relating to sexual politics and/or freedom of choice. I mean... hel-LO!!! This is the Catholic church we're talking about here... have you been in a CAVE?!
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kuri
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posted 03 October 2005 05:01 PM
I think Bacik was surprised because she wasn't intending to talking about abortion at this particular lecture. Her subject was already established as Irish immigration and globalization.
I worry about these sort of actions a lot, actually, as someone who feels strongly about abortion rights in particular. I've thought about it after the thread on Alison Brewer, where some were reluctant to support her irregardless of her merits or lack thereof because her background was in pro-choice advocacy. Could speaking out for choice potentially leave us with a scarlet letter barring us from employment opportunities totally unrelated from that stance?
That said, you're right, Heph, that it's hardly surprising that a Catholic institution would do something like this.
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