St Michael Society

Georgetown has once again found itself treading in controversial waters.

St. Michael Society editors have learned of the University’s administrative ties to the largest abortion provider in the United States: a current nursing adjunct instructor and former vice president, both of whom served in the upper echelon of Planned Parenthood for at least a decade each.

The first comes from the University’s own paper of record, The Georgetown Voice. According to the publication’s blog “Vox Populli,” a current adjunct instructor at Georgetown’s School of Nursing and Health Studies previously worked for Planned Parenthood – as President and CEO of local Ohio and Maryland chapters and for at least 10 years.  

According to her curriculum vitae (download it here), Geidner-Antoniotti was President and CEO of the Mahoning Valley Planned Parenthood from 1990 to 1997, where she increased increased donor loyalty and giving and patient numbers. She held the same job from 1998 to 2000 with Planned Parenthood’s Maryland branch and was an acting project manager with Planned Parenthood Federation of America in the interim.

More recently, she was the CFO of the Whitman-Walker Clinic and has won a host of public awards. At Georgetown, Geidner-Antoniotti is involved with strategic planning and execution

The second was reported today by CatholicCulture.org :

Dr. Gary Lewis Filerman, who chaired the Department of Health Systems Administration at Georgetown University until 2008, is a former Planned Parenthood vice president, according to the university’s web site. Dr. Filerman, who began to teach at Georgetown in 2000, served as the Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s vice president for international development from 1993 to 1996, as president of Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington from 1990 to 1991, and as a member of the board of directors of Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington from 1986 to 1992.

For both Geidner-Antonoitti and Filerman, that’s at least a decade each working within the upper ranks of Planned Parenthood’s management. Not exactly something Georgetown could claim to ignore as they evaluated their resumes.

It’s a chilling discovery at any time of year, but perhaps even more disturbing as we’re reminded of what Planned Parenthood has done to desecrate Christmas in their annual “Choice on Earth” campaign. More on that by Jill Stanek here, complete with fundraising email from their 2009 campaign.

This discovery also comes just months after Georgetown complied with the White House request to “cover up all signs and symbols on the wall of the state behind where the President spoke” during his April 14^th address at the University. Read that story reported by CNS News online here .  

Pray that St. Michael the Archangel defend us in battle and help Georgetown reclaim its Catholic identity.