Faculty union at Jesuit university resists move to eliminate abortion coverage

April 24, 2009

The faculty union at the Jesuit-run University of San Francisco has fought off an effort to eliminate abortion coverage from the health-care benefits offered to instructors. Pointing out that the Jesuit order has formally ceded control of the university to a lay board, the president of the faculty union insisted on adherence to an existing contract, saying that tampering with that contract on any point would be "something like abolishing tenure."

 

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• Faculty union: Jesuit University of San Francisco "not a Catholic school" (Our Sunday Visitor)