Jun 17, 2009 / 00:18 am
At least ten Catholic colleges and universities are promoting student internships with organizations whose missions or actions are directly opposed to Catholic morals, the Cardinal Newman Society charges. Some internships are with organizations that promote abortion or homosexual issues and include possible work in abortion “clinic defense.”
According the Cardinal Newman Society (CNS), a Catholic higher education organization, a web page at Boston College lists as “Non-Profit Internship Sources” two pro-abortion groups, the Feminist Majority Foundation and the National Organization for Women.
A Boston College Law School website recommends the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts, ACLU-Massachusetts and the Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders as opportunities for “pro bono” legal work. The latter two organizations advocate homosexual “marriage.”
The Georgetown Law School, following a 2007 policy change, allows students to receive university funding for interning at abortion advocacy organizations, CNS reports. A student had been refused funding for an internship at Planned Parenthood, but protests from pro-abortion students and faculty successfully changed the policy.