Alert: Sup. Court Justice behind partial-birth abortion to be honored by Fordham Law

An alert from the Cardinal Newman Society (underlining mine):

"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.

... Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, in his dissenting opinion in Stenberg, wrote: “I am optimistic enough to believe that, one day, Stenberg v. Carhart will be assigned its rightful place in the history of this Court’s jurisprudence beside Korematsu and Dred Scott. The method of killing a human child . . . proscribed by this statute is so horrible that the most clinical description of it evokes a shudder of revulsion.”

... “If Fordham truly aspires to follow its own mission statement and be ‘Guided by its Catholic and Jesuit traditions,’ then it must rescind the offer of this award to Justice Breyer,” said Reilly."

Sure enough, on the Fordham website - their official notice. A quotation from the dean of Fordham Law:

"Justice Breyer has devoted his life to the public good,” said William Michael Treanor.

Francis Cardinal George, President of the USCCB, has recently stated (underlining mine):

"Our present laws permit unborn children to be privately killed. Laws that place unborn children outside the protection of law destroy both the children killed and the common good, which is the controlling principle of Catholic social teaching. One cannot favor the legal status quo on abortion and also be working for the common good." (source)

Sorry, but Dean Treanor is simply wrong that Justice Breyer has "devoted his life to the public good."

I would recommend that concerned parties email Paul W. Brennan who is named as the contact in the press release and ask him to forward your comments on to the appropriate individuals.

His email is "paulbrennan [at] law.fordham.edu".

Thank you!