Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh has vowed to take care of a baby should someone in his program, a family member, or a friend experience an unplanned pregnancy.
“I tell my kids, boys, the girls, same thing I tell our players, our staff members,” Harbaugh told ESPN, elaborating on pro-life comments previously made at an auction for the Plymouth Right to Life foundation. “I encourage them, if they have a pregnancy that wasn’t planned, to go through with it, go through with it. Let that unborn child be born, and if at that time, you don’t feel like you can care for it, you don’t have the means or the wherewithal, then Sarah and I will take that baby.”
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Harbaugh, who is Catholic, has taken flack for saying that “every unborn human life” is “filled with potential” and arguing that the “right choice is to have the courage to let the unborn be born.”
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While speaking with ESPN during the Wolverines’ summer tour of the state, he encouraged people to discuss the controversial topic of abortion.
“Faith, family, football … those are my priorities,” Harbaugh said. “I just think that … the abortion issue is one that’s so big that it needs to be talked about. It needs serious conversation. What do you think? What do I think? What do others think?”
“It’s a life-or-death type of issue. And I believe in, and I respect, people’s views,” the Michigan coach added. “But let’s hear them. Let’s discuss them, because there’s passion on both sides of this issue. So when you combine that with respect, that’s when the best results come.”
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Harbaugh is set to return as Michigan’s head coach after a season in which the team reached the college football playoffs.
