Inviting someone to speak does not amount to endorsing their views. Banning Planned Parenthood, Reese opined, opened an impossible agenda. Like many complaining students and faculty, Reese saw the matter as one of academic freedom. Spitzer s response to this was crisp. He acted on what Planned Parenthood does, not on the basis of what a representative of it might say.
Abortion is the taking of innocent life.
Planned Parenthood has the blood of millions of aborted infants on its hands. An invitation to speak would make it appear that those actions could be waived. Spitzer thought otherwise. It is refreshing to have the chief officer of a Catholic university act as if he were the chief officer of a Catholic university. Most of them seem to feel with Fr.