Pro-Abortion Professor Loses Defamation Bid Against Catholic Student Journalists

A state judge found that the alleged defamatory statements not only were true but also didn’t cause any damage
Pro-Abortion Professor Loses Defamation Bid Against Catholic Student Journalists
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Bill Pan
Bill Pan
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A University of Notre Dame professor has lost her defamation lawsuit against a group of independent conservative student journalists who reported on her pro-abortion activism at the Catholic institution.

The lawsuit was brought in May last year by Tamara Kay, a sociology professor, against The Irish Rover, an independent student newspaper styling itself as “upholding the Catholic character” of the university in South Bend, Indiana. The complaint centered around two Rover articles, which Ms. Kay claimed to contain “defamatory and false statements” about her public promotion of abortion.