Faculty Senate confronts Santa Clara President over the removal of selective abortion from the University Health Plan.
"The faculty senate voted 215 to 89 in mid-December to approve a resolution declaring “invalid” the action taken by SCU’s president, Jesuit Father Michael Engh, to bar the university from paying for elective abortion in its health plans. A total of 627 faculty members at SCU were eligible to vote." - Peter Jesserer Smith, National Catholic Register
It would be interesting to know if the Faculty Senate vote was a secret ballot vote. According to the number of faculty members eligible to vote 323 faculty members chose not to vote on this issue. 215 votes out of 627 faculty members to declare invalid Father Michael Engh's resolution not to offer selective abortion in Santa Clara's health plan is not a majority of faculty members.
If the vote was a secret ballot vote then it does not speak well of Santa Clara that there are 323 disinterested faculty members that cannot commit themselves on an issue such as abortion. I'll call it the Pontius Pilate School of Ethics. Keep the basins and the hand towels at the ready.
If the vote was not a secret ballot perhaps the 304 faculty members that voted have tenure. Their jobs are secure and do not have to worry about retribution from their peers. Perhaps there are 323 faculty members that did not vote to protect their future tenure prospects. This does not speak well of the faculty.
Father Engh is finding out that the Gosnellians can never be appeased.
http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/abortion-standoff-between-santa-clara-university-president-and-faculty
