In a letter to the campus that next month, university President David O'Connell wrote: I consider any pro-choice advocacy-whether deliberate or accidental, whether presented under the guise of academic freedom or right to free speech-as incompatible with that fidelity and not worthy of The Catholic University of America [REF].
In 2009, the school made its speaker policy more stringent, prohibiting all candidates for political office from speaking on campus.