….from the emailbox and elsewhere:

An interesting speaker at Loyola of Chicago

Judith Arcana was recently invited by the Loyola University Chicago Women’s Studies Department to be a guest lecturer in a bioethics class (Bioethics 395: The Ethics of Human Reproduction), and to do a performance of her own work.

Who is Judith Arcana, you ask?

For two years, she was a member of The Abortion Counseling Service of the Chicago Women’s Liberation Union — which was better known by its nickname, “Jane”. Its history spanned a roughly five year period prior to the Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton Supreme Court decisions in 1973. (The picture of Arcana at the top of this post was taken during her time with Jane.)

According to the CWLU Herstory Editorial Committee:

Jane was the CWLU’s underground illegal abortion provider that performed over 11,000 safe abortions, many performed by Jane members themselves. [source]

Yes, you read that correctly. Jane wasn’t your garden variety “pro-choice” organization; it wasn’t even an abortion referral service. The members of Jane actually performed abortions.

Back to Richmond: In case you’ve forgotten the Richmond Catholic Blog – it’s still there, still reporting on doings in that diocese. This link is a transcript of a meeting of a diocesan group that is discussing the question of making sure homeschooling parents are…qualified to do sacramental prep with their children. As in..making them go through catechist training. It’s an illuminating discussion, in case you’ve never been in such a discussion which I trust most of you have been fortunate enough not to…