BY JULIA SMUCKER A few days after the July 20 mass shooting at an Aurora, Colorado movie theater, I heard a hauntingly perceptive comment...

BY MARY KRANE DERR Feminists of the 1960s and 1970s were hardly the first to address abortion. Their 19th- and early 20th-century...

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...

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...

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...

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...

BY ANTHONY BEDOY Photo by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; some rights reserved. Lazy, obnoxious, and immature are just a few of the...

BY NICHOLAS NEAL Photo by Paul Studios; some rights reserved. In the first issue of Life Matters Journal, we had an article arguing that...

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...

BY BENJAMIN WIRTZ Photo by Gwydion M Williams; some rights reserved. Mitt Romney and Barack Obama may seem to be different on many...

BY MADELINE BLOOMQUIST Photo courtesy of millicent-bystander on flickr; some rights reserved. As far back as I can remember, my parents...

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...

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...

BY CAROL CROSSED Image by Vectorpal on flickr; some rights reserved. "Seward Seminary: Rosetta, daughter of Frederick Douglass, was...

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...

BY MARY KRANE DERR The right to access the full range of voluntary family planning methods is often neglected or actively undermined in...

BY LILIANNA SERBICKI Swollen, a dream on its way to fruition; Nothing romantic. Lense (soft-focus) gone. Real fruit bruises; a real fruit...

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...

BY NICHOLAS NEAL The abolition of the death penalty in Illinois began when Governor George Ryan placed a moratorium on capital punishment...

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...