Pro-life message ‘not often’ heard at Georgetown

Catholic teaching on respecting the dignity of unborn human life is apparently something students at Georgetown University don’t often hear. That’s what the president of Georgetown University Right to Life suggested after the student organization invited a pro-life speaker to campus last month.

“We hoped students would leave having witnessed an opinion they may not often hear on campus,” she told the student newspaper.

Meanwhile, the openly pro-abortion student group, H*yas for Choice, is allowed to regularly distribute contraception and promote abortion on Georgetown’s campus in opposition to Catholic teaching. The group, which describes itself as “pro-choice” and “queer-affirming,” advertises weekday tables in Georgetown’s Red Square, where they “distribute thousands of external/internal condoms, dental dams, and sexual lubricants each year.” Georgetown also allows H*yas for Choice to hold events on campus—including an advertised November 11 event featuring “demonstrations of IUD insertions, surgical abortion techniques,” and “free emergency contraception.”

University officials at Georgetown are not simply allowing a free exchange of ideas. They are giving cover to a group that is actively undermining the truth of the Catholic faith—and causing direct spiritual harm to students.

Especially when it comes to matters of grave mortal sin, the truth of our faith should not be treated by a Catholic institution as a political talking point where “both sides” have equal merit. A faithful Catholic education should actively form students to recognize the sanctity of human life in the womb according to Church teaching.