The Cost of Autonomy
BY JULIA SMUCKER A few days after the July 20 mass shooting at an Aurora, Colorado movie theater, I heard a hauntingly perceptive comment...
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Oct 12, 20126 min read
Early Feminists on Abortion: A Still-Relevant Herstory
BY MARY KRANE DERR Feminists of the 1960s and 1970s were hardly the first to address abortion. Their 19th- and early 20th-century...
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Oct 12, 20122 min read
Rights to "Privacy" & "Self-Protection": Abortion & Gun Control
BY CAROL CROSSED Two of the most contentious issues this election year are gun owners' rights and abortion rights. In 2008, out of 4,600...
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Oct 12, 20125 min read
Drawing Connections: Intimate Partner Violence, Poverty, and Abortion
BY JEN ROTH The consistent life ethic is traditionally seen as a way to draw connections among issues that do not seem related at first...
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Oct 12, 20121 min read
The Consistent Life Ethic is Like Salt
BY CAROL CROSSED Consistent-Life Ethic is like salt. You don't need a whole lot to be effective. But it's essential to have it present...
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Oct 12, 20125 min read
Ron Paul's Legacy
BY NICHOLAS NEAL Photo by Jayel Aheram; some rights reserved. This year will be Ron Paul's last in Congress. Adding together Ron Paul's...
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Oct 12, 20123 min read
Operation Sharecraft
BY ANTHONY BEDOY Photo by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; some rights reserved. Lazy, obnoxious, and immature are just a few of the...
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Oct 12, 20124 min read
Priority of Questions
BY NICHOLAS NEAL Photo by Paul Studios; some rights reserved. In the first issue of Life Matters Journal, we had an article arguing that...
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Oct 12, 20126 min read
The "Light Footprint": Economy & Secrecy in Obama's Military Policies
BY JOHN WHITEHEAD Barack Obama is now more than three-and-a-half years into his presidency and at least a preliminary assessment of his...
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Oct 12, 20125 min read
Comparing Romney & Obama on Life Issues
BY BENJAMIN WIRTZ Photo by Gwydion M Williams; some rights reserved. Mitt Romney and Barack Obama may seem to be different on many...
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Oct 12, 20123 min read
True Life: A Pro-Life Teen
BY MADELINE BLOOMQUIST Photo courtesy of millicent-bystander on flickr; some rights reserved. As far back as I can remember, my parents...
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Oct 12, 20126 min read
Contraception is Not Pro-Life
BY MARC BARNES The claim that the widespread promotion of contraception is pro-life is by no means a bad one. Mary Krane Derr, in her...
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Oct 12, 20122 min read
Letter from the Editor: Where's Our Party?
Dear readers, supporters, and friends, I hope this first issue of Volume 2 finds you well! I can't believe we've been on this journey...
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Oct 12, 20124 min read
The Oneness of Human Rights
BY CAROL CROSSED Image by Vectorpal on flickr; some rights reserved. "Seward Seminary: Rosetta, daughter of Frederick Douglass, was...
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Oct 12, 20123 min read
Make it History: Students for a Fair Society at Franciscan University of Steubenville
BY KEITH MICHAEL ESTRADA What does it mean to be "pro-life"? This is a question I asked myself when I first dived into the student...
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Sep 13, 20116 min read
Family Planning Freedom is Pro-Life
BY MARY KRANE DERR The right to access the full range of voluntary family planning methods is often neglected or actively undermined in...
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Sep 13, 20111 min read
Sonnet -- At 40 Weeks
BY LILIANNA SERBICKI Swollen, a dream on its way to fruition; Nothing romantic. Lense (soft-focus) gone. Real fruit bruises; a real fruit...
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Sep 13, 20115 min read
Ten Years Later
BY AIMEE BEDOY I am writing this ten years to the day that those towers fell. And ten years later, I want us to discuss what we have...
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Sep 13, 20112 min read
The Abolition of Capital Punishment in Illinois
BY NICHOLAS NEAL The abolition of the death penalty in Illinois began when Governor George Ryan placed a moratorium on capital punishment...
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Sep 13, 201113 min read
Justice in the Face of Unknowing
BY AIMEE BEDOY & STEVEN OETJEN A quandary of major proportions faces our nation in this day and age. It could be a matter of life and...
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