St Joseph College President To Receive Award From Pro-Abortion Group
September 13th, 2011 by James
Trotman Reid To Share Stage With Planned Parenthood CEO Judy Tabar
The pro-abortion Connecticut Women’s Education and Legal Fund (CTWEALF) announced in a Sept. 12th press release that it would be giving the Maria Miller Stewart award to Pamela Trotman Reid, the president of St. Joseph College. “Dr. Reid will be presented with her award at CWEALF’s One Women Makes a Difference event Tuesday, October 4, 5:00 – 9:00 at the Crown Plaza Hotel in Cromwell CT,” says the press release.
Other recipients of the award include Judy Tabar, President of Planned Parenthood of Southern New England. (Listen to Peter Wolfgang debate Judy Tabar on WNPR’s Where We Live.)
The event’s financial sponsors include St. Joseph College, Planned Parenthood of Southern New England, Connecticut Children’s Medical Center, CT AFL-CIO, Goodwin College, and the law firms of Day Pitney LLP, McCarter & English LLP, and Livingston, Adler, Pulda, Meiklejohn & Kelly PC.
CTWEALF is a Hartford based non-profit with a long history of promoting abortion on demand in the name of “women’s rights”. CTWEALF was a plaintiff in early lawsuits, challenging bans on Medicaid funding of abortions. Their radical anti-family activism has continued to this day. CTWEALF played a leading role in advocating for passage of the Bathroom Bill by the Connecticut General Assembly. The CT Equality Coalition seemed little more than a front organization; Sally Tamarkin, the lead organizer for CT Equality was employed by CTWEALF, working out of CTWEALF’s offices in Hartford.
St. Joseph College is a Roman Catholic women’s college located in West Hartford, CT. Founded by the Sisters of Mercy, it is the only women’s college in the State of Connecticut.
According to the College’s mission statement, “The College is a community which promotes the growth of the whole person in a caring environment that encourages strong ethical values, personal integrity and a sense of responsibility to the needs of society.” Its website lists Catholic Identity as the first of seven core values, “Catholic Identity: Saint Joseph College is grounded in its heritage as a Catholic institution, expressing the Catholic tradition in an ecumenical and critical manner.”
This is not the first time that Trotman Reid’s words and actions in the public arena have drawn scrutiny. In an October 2008 interview with The Hartford Courant, she remarked on her admiration for Barack Obama and why she wanted him elected president, “And the next president is likely going to make appointments to the Supreme Court. That could affect the right of women to make choices about their own health. These are issues of incredible importance.”
Subsequent to the publication of that article, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Hartford, the Most Rev. Henry J. Mansell, wrote to Trotman Reid, asking her to clarify her comments. Archbishop Mansell reported the results of his correspondence in his November 2008 Catholic Transcript column, “On October 9th, the Hartford Courant reported on an interview with Dr. Pamela Trotman Reid, President of Saint Joseph College. The quotes attributed to Dr. Reid suggested some ambiguity in her support for the Church teaching on abortion. I wrote to Dr. Reid that day, asking for clarification. Correspondence and conversations followed. I am pleased to report that in her most recent letter to me Dr. Reid stated: ‘I am committed to upholding the Catholic teaching and values that are the foundation of a Mercy college.’”
A scandal in the truest sense of the word.
[…] Family Institute of Connecticut reports: The event’s financial sponsors include St. Joseph College, Planned Parenthood of Southern New […]
[…] Its president, Pamela Trotman Reid, told The Hartford Courant in 2008 that she wanted Barack Obama elected not in spite of his pro-abortion stand but because of it. She subsequently promised Archbishop Mansell that she would uphold the Catholic values of the school but then accepted an award from a pro-abortion organization. You can read about it here. […]
Dear Ms. Pamela Trotman Reid, President of Uof St. Joseph,
I am so disappointed to read once again of your failure to uphold Catholic values at the University.
For many years, I have contributed to this Sisters of Mercy University and I will have to think twice about the donation in the future . I am sure many Sisters are also unable to fathom your support for Plan B and your connection with Planned Parenthood.
May the Holy Spirit enlighten your mind and strengthen your will to do good and to avoid evil.
Sincerely,
Jean Hamilton MA(’65)
I think Cardinal Mansell should have Pamela Trotman Reid
fired from her job as principal of St. Joseph’s College. Leaders in Catholic Colleges should abide by Catholic principles or not be hired.
It is unfair for parents paying for college tuitions for girls thinking they are getting a Catholic education to have a principal who is so pro-abortion.
If the college continues to have her as principal; then the
title of Catholic should be removed from the school.
What a shame that we can’t trust a college to honor its mission statement.
I am ashamed to say that I am a graduate of the University of St. Joseph.
Pamela Trotman does NOT uphold the beliefs of the Catholic faith or the Mercy sisters.
God have mercy on her soul.