I feel like if you work at a school called “Catholic University,” you should know what things are and aren’t “Catholic.”
Melissa Goldberg, a now former psychology lecturer at the Catholic University in Washington D.C., was let go after she invited a self-declared “abortion doula” to give a lesson on helping a “birthing person” get an abortion.
Carbonneau is the founder and CEO of the doula company Family Ways. A doula’s role is usually to help provide physical and emotional support to women giving birth. Whether it’s before, during or after the actual birthing process, a traditional doula role is to help mom and baby.
Doulas, as Catholic News Agency noted, also have been known to help women through miscarriages. Carbonneau, however, talked about a doula’s role as a support during an abortion.
A student who attended the January…
