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-37 posts tagged "Right to Life"
Kara Miecznikowski | Tuesday, February 6, 2018
Notre Dame’s Right to Life Club now sponsors a free daycare service for the University’s parenting graduate students. Once a week, graduate students with children are able to take a break from parenting and use this valuable time to study, work, run errands or purely have some time to themselves. Meanwhile, trained students from their
Lucas Masin-Moyer | Monday, January 22, 2018
Growing up in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., junior Julia Dunbar had been to St. Agnes Parish in Arlington, Virginia, to compete in various sporting events throughout her childhood, but she had never seen it as filled as she did Friday morning when scores of Notre Dame students packed into the pews for a mass
Letter to the Editor | Friday, December 1, 2017
Every January, Notre Dame Right to Life leads between 700 and 900 students and faculty from Notre Dame, Saint Mary’s and Holy Cross to the March for Life in Washington D.C. Each of us marches for many different reasons, but overall, we all are striving to seek an end to abortion. This motive understandably draws
Letter to the Editor | Friday, October 6, 2017
We are nearing the end of Notre Dame Right to Life’s annual Respect Life Week, a week set aside every October when the club hosts a number of events which aim to engage students in discussions, service opportunities, prayer and celebrations centered around the importance of the innate dignity of all human persons. Our goal
Marie Fazio | Tuesday, October 3, 2017
This week, the Notre Dame Right to Life club is celebrating Respect Life week, a part of National Respect Life Month. The week began with a rosary for life at the Grotto on Sunday and a booth on South Quad yesterday, where club members sold apparel and answered questions about the club. The organization chose
Letter to the Editor | Tuesday, September 19, 2017
Iceland isn’t getting rid of Down syndrome. Iceland is getting rid of people with Down syndrome. There’s a difference. In August, CBS published a report, which has since gone viral, announcing that the island’s abortion rate for babies with Down syndrome is approaching 100 percent. Like most progressive European countries, selective abortion is rampant thanks
Letter to the Editor | Friday, April 21, 2017
“Then God said, ‘Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.’ … God saw all that he
Natalie Weber | Tuesday, March 28, 2017
Although junior Natasha Reifenberg has advocated for reproductive rights in Latin America and senior Aly Cox is the president of the Notre Dame Right to Life club, the two found common ground in their views towards a criminal ban on abortion in El Salvador and coauthored an editorial expressing their opinion on the issue. Inspired by
Lucas Masin-Moyer | Wednesday, February 22, 2017
The last ten years have seen a surge of protest both on the left of the political spectrum, mostly in reaction to President Donald Trump’s policies, and on the right, with the Tea Party Movement. This spirit of protest has bled over into Notre Dame’s campus with student groups engaging in demonstrations this semester on
Jimmy Kemper | Friday, February 3, 2017
This past weekend, I was afforded the opportunity to attend the March for Life in Washington for the first time. While I was excited to see the occasional protest sign advocating for defense of the environment, nuclear nonproliferation and other issues that constitute a comprehensive pro-life agenda, I was dismayed by the sheer amount of