O. Carter Snead, professor of law and director of Notre Dame’s Center for Ethics and Culture
Snead will speak about the proposed Department of Health and Human Services mandate, which requires many health plans to cover contraception, chemical abortion, and surgical sterilization. Fr. Jenkins has stated that the mandate would place Notre Dame in an “impossible position” by compelling the school “to either pay for contraception and sterilization in violation of the church’s moral teaching, or to discontinue our employee and student healthcare plans in violation of the church’s social teaching.”