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Catholic writer and art historian Elizabeth Lev<\/span><\/a> is Mary Ann Glendon’s In a post <\/span><\/a>at Lev explains that Glendon’s action, undertaken because of And, Lev said, in light of that commitment it’s silly to “Professor Glendon was to have been honored for not only for <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yesterday (April 29, 2009), Tom McFeely, of the National Catholic Register posted a brief story relating the “back story” to Mary Ann Glendon’s declining the Laetare Medal. Catholic writer and art historian Elizabeth Lev is Mary Ann Glendon’s daughter. In a post at PoliticsDaily.com, Lev — who lives in Rome and is a regular contributor to Zenit … Continue reading Glendon’s Daughter Comments<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[2079,2069,1900],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24597"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Liz](\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Liz%20Lev.jpg\")
\ndaughter.<\/p>\n
\nPoliticsDaily.com, Lev — who lives in Rome and is a regular contributor to
\nZenit news service — discusses her mother’s decision to refuse to accept Notre
\nDame’s Laetare Medal.<\/p>\n
\nNotre Dame’s honoring of pro-abortion President Barack Obama, must be
\nconsidered in the context of Glendon’s proven commitment to defending the human
\nrights of all vulnerable people, born and unborn<\/span>.<\/p>\n
\ndismiss her mother’s principled action as merely a gesture by someone who cares
\nonly about the pro-life cause.<\/p>\n
\nher scholarship, but for her second career, her pro-bono work<\/span> — ranging from
\nthe civil rights movement of the 1960s to the great civil rights issues of the
\npresent day — namely, the defense of human life from conception to natural
\ndeath,” writes Lev. “Her concerns range from the aging and dying population to
\nthe unborn to the well-being and dignity of every life, regardless of race,
\nreligion, or economic status. Her outstanding work in this field has earned her
\nthe respect of the most brilliant minds of the international community,
\nregardless of whether they agree with her position. So again, to see her merely
\nas ‘strongly anti-abortion’ instead of as a tireless defender of the dignity of
\nlife, is to reveal not only a lack of understanding of the subject’s work, but
\nalso the writer’s real interest in this question<\/span>.”<\/p>\n