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Jun 20, 20173 min read
Dying With Real Dignity
Dignity is popular these days. When people champion human rights, human dignity is usually not too far behind, and with good reason: our...
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Jun 20, 20177 min read
Remembering Nat Hentoff (1925-2017)
Defenders of life lost one of their most eloquent, frustrating, and idiosyncratic voices earlier this year when Nat Hentoff died on...
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Jun 20, 20173 min read
Suicide: “Choose When You Want to Go”
I remember sitting in one of my classes as an undergraduate and hearing my Management of Aging Services professor tell the story of an...
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Apr 19, 20177 min read
Why Focus on Abortion?
I’m not alone among pro-life advocates in that people sometimes ask me, “Why only abortion? Why do you advocate on this issue only?” When...
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Apr 19, 20174 min read
The Killing Game, Part Two
Continued from part one, which can be found in Life Matters Journal Volume 5, Issue 4. A few days after her meeting with The Seven, she...
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Apr 19, 20176 min read
A Coach's Perspective on Performance and Abortion
As a Collegiate Women's Soccer Coach, I enjoy recognizing principles within sport that can be applied to everyday life. I refer to these...
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Apr 19, 20174 min read
Electoral Backlash
In late November 2012, the Consistent Life Network’s newsletter, Peace & Life Connections, pointed out a counter-intuitive set of facts....
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Apr 19, 20174 min read
Culture of Convenience vs. Culture of Life
It’s sometimes amazing the intolerable things people are willing to tolerate for a little convenience, even when the fix is simple,...
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Apr 19, 20171 min read
We Are Stardust / Stars Up Close
way out on that distant horizon, city lights curve into stars and midnight’s sky drips down into city they say you and I are made from...
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Apr 19, 20171 min read
Protest
A chilly Saturday morning in Cleveland, standing outside a clinic next to my pastor saying the rosary in the bitter cold penetrating my...
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Jan 25, 20175 min read
Physician-Assisted Suicide and Therapeutic Ideation
Physician-assisted suicide proponents have been calling in favors to get in the media a lot recently, using sympathetic stories of...
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Jan 25, 20177 min read
Lengthening Limits to Liberty for Life: The Pursuit of Freedom of Conscience within the Military
Maria Santelli is the executive director of the Center on Conscience & War, a 76 year-old organization dedicated to extending and...
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Jan 25, 20175 min read
Election: 2016: No Conscientious Objection Allowed
There has been a lot of media attention recently on conscientious objection, mostly due to HR 4828, the Conscience Protection Act of...
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Jan 25, 20178 min read
The Killing Game: Part 1
It was during year 60 of The World Government that Pip was stolen away by the secret police. They were the same group that took her...
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Jan 25, 20176 min read
Can We Hyde War Taxes? Conscientious Objection to Military Taxation
by Thad Crouch — Financial self-help author Vicki Robin says “Money is something we choose to trade our life energy for” when we work. ...
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Jan 25, 20177 min read
Refusing to Practice Lethal Medicine: Conscientious Objection and Abortion
There has been a lot of media attention recently on conscientious objection (CO), mostly due to a bill currently being considered by the...
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Nov 8, 20164 min read
The Pro-Life Appeal to Agnosticism
In his 1989 essay Why Abortion is Immoral, Don Marquis notes that the arguments made by people on both sides of the abortion debate...
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Nov 8, 20165 min read
Therapies that Respect Life Rather Than Destroy It: The Different Types of Stem Cell Research
Stem cells are set apart from other types of cells primarily by two characteristics: self-renewal (the ability to divide indefinitely)...
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Jul 21, 20169 min read
Voting Matters: The Battle for the Soul of America
I don't think I know of a single person who would deny that voting matters. In our Democratic Republic, we have a chance to participate...
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Apr 12, 20165 min read
People Are More Than Their Circumstances
I recently had the wonderful opportunity to attend the Religious Education Congress, an annual gathering of about 40,000 Catholics who...
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