Manassas, Va. – In a brash move defying the U.S Bishops’ speakers policy, Fordham University’s Stein Center for Law and Ethics announced that proabortion Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer is the 2008 recipient of the Fordham-Stein Ethics Prize. Breyer infamously wrote the majority opinion in Stenberg v. Carhart, which struck down state laws banning the barbaric practice of partial-birth abortion.
The Fordham-Stein Ethics Prize is scheduled to be bestowed upon Justice Breyer at a dinner in New York on October 29, 2008.
Three weeks ago The Cardinal Newman Society President Patrick J. Reilly wrote to inform Rev. Joseph McShane, S.J., President of Fordham University, of Justice Breyer’s record. Reilly urged him to rescind the offer of the Fordham-Stein Ethics Prize to Breyer. No response was given.
“This amounts to nothing less than Fordham University thumbing its nose at the US Bishops, whose opposition to such honors is clear.” said Reilly.
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Stephen G. Breyer and Henry Morgentaler are having a gay wedding later this month?
I agree that it is indeed “thumbing its nose at the US Bishops”, but was it done with that purpose in mind?
This is the kind of thing that gives “ethics” a bad name. When I was in a quandary a few years ago over giving my kids a particular vaccine (rubella, specifically, because the original virus was obtained by aborting a number of exposed pregnant women) my pediatrician, who didn’t really “get” my concerns still tried to be helpful. He contacted an “ethicist” at the local Catholic university. Not exactly the kind of guidance and help I was looking for…
Obviously he’s up for an award in ethics because he follows the rules he sets for himself.
It’s not like he’s getting an award for morality.