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College of Saint Rose (NY) May 10, 2008: Commencement speaker and honorary degree recipient was pro-abortion New York Governor David Paterson.
Fordham University (NY)Sept. 18, 2008: Washington, D.C., alumni club with Fordham president Fr. Joseph McShane, S.J., honored pro-abortion Rep. John Lewis of Georgia for “distinguished service to this nation.”Oct. 29, 2008: Law school honored Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer with Fordham-Stein Ethics Prize, despite Breyer’s opinion overturning state bans on partial-birth abortion (opposed by Cardinal Edward Egan).
Mount Mercy College (IA) May 17, 2008: Commencement speaker was pro-abortion former Maryland Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend.
Regis College (MA) May 18, 2008: Commencement speaker and honorary degree recipient was pro-abortion Massachusetts State Rep. Lida Harkins.
St. Ambrose University (IA) May 11, 2008: Honorary degree recipient was pro-abortion former Iowa State Sen. Margaret Tinsman.
St. Edward’s University (TX) May 3, 2008: Commencement speaker and honorary degree recipient was “pro-choice” Cokie Roberts, political commentator for ABC News and senior news analyst for National Public Radio.
Santa Clara University (CA)May 17, 2008: Law school commencement speaker was U.S. District Judge Phyllis Hamilton, who struck down a federal ban on partial-birth abortion claiming “the act poses an undue burden on a woman’s right to choose an abortion” and refusing to consider medical records of women who had abortions.Oct. 21, 2008: Law school honored pro-abortion former congressman Leon Panetta (also on SCU’s board of trustees) with Justice and Human Rights Award during its Diversity Gala.
University of Notre Dame (IN) May 17, 2008: Graduate school commencement speaker and honorary degree recipient was Marye Anne Fox, chancellor of the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), and architect and leader of one of the nation’s foremost initiatives in embryonic stem cell research.