A Letter from Our Founder
by Aimee Murphy — Dear friends, As we say goodbye to 2020 and welcome the New Year, I must announce that I am saying a “goodbye” of sorts...
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Dec 9, 20203 min read
Reflection and Call to Action for International Human Rights Day
by Sophie Trist — On December 10, the world will celebrate International Human Rights Day, marking seventy-two years since the United...
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Dec 1, 20204 min read
Unmasking the Patriarchal Axe that Split the Women’s Movement: A Book Review
by Stephen Adubato — In Sex and the Catholic Feminist: New Choices for a New Generation, former Cosmopolitan magazine writer Sue Ellen...
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Nov 20, 20202 min read
Transgender Day of Remembrance
by Katherine Noble — The LGBTQ+ community faces emotional, physical, and societal violence throughout the world. There are only 29...
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Nov 9, 20205 min read
Pro-lifers, Let’s Reclaim Armistice Day to Respect Life and Veterans
by Thad Crouch
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In many nations, Armistice Day still commemorates the end of WWI on November 11th, 1918, as a day to remember
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Sep 23, 20202 min read
Out of Hyding: 44 Years of the Life-Saving Hyde Amendment
by Kelsey Hazzard — The Hyde Amendment, which prevents federal taxpayer funding of most elective abortions through the Medicaid program,...
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Aug 6, 20204 min read
Remembering Hiroshima: The Eerie Power of "Barefoot Gen"
by John Whitehead — Advocates for the Consistent Life Ethic would do well to mark and reflect on the 75th anniversaries of the nuclear...
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Mar 23, 20203 min read
White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
This year marks the 75th anniversary of the United States dropping nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Mar 18, 20205 min read
Building Networks and Bridges: the Consistent Life Network
In today’s work for peace and justice, connectivity and shared intelligence are often game-changers.
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Feb 8, 20202 min read
Some History of the Consistent Life Ethic
Each instance of human dignity is indispensable, and cannot be traded for profit, politics, or ideology.
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Nov 1, 20192 min read
Celebrating the Dead is Celebrating Life
by Jessica Vozella — Living in Los Angeles has brought me many gifts, and notably is an exposure to different cultures, customs, and...
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Nov 11, 20166 min read
The Silence of the Left: The Horror of a Two-Party War Machine
I remember the day Obama was elected quite clearly in my mind. I had decided Monday evening to set up a “Cemetery of the Innocents” on my...
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Nov 19, 20136 min read
Reflections on the Women's Peace Encampment: 30 Years Later
Mark Hare is not the kind of person who strikes you as being aware that he played more than a minor role in changing the world. When I...
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May 27, 20132 min read
Arias & Castro: Women & Men & the Death Penalty
BY AIMEE MURPHY "Juries are a little more reluctant to mete out the death penalty to a woman than a man," Andy Silverman, a law professor...
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Feb 20, 20131 min read
Life Matters Journal by the numbers
So we took a cue from our friends at Secular Pro-Life and thought we'd share a little bit about our relationship with YOU! We recently...
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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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Dec 20, 20112 min read
On "A Heart for Freedom"
BY CAROL CROSSED Chai Ling's book A Heart for Freedom (Tyndale House Publishers, 2011) is a clearly written treatise on Ling's journey...
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Dec 20, 20117 min read
Sidestepping the Culture War: The Future of the Pro-Life Movement
BY KELSEY HAZZARD "We systematically vilified the Catholic Church and its 'socially backward ideas' and picked on the Catholic hierarchy...
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Dec 20, 201115 min read
Respect for Life: The Consistent Life Ethic in Catholic Social Teaching
BY JULIA SMUCKER Life issues, in any form, have typically proven divisively controversial in general public discourse, and they have been...
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Dec 20, 20116 min read
Quakers Need a Pro-Life Peace Testimony
BY RACHEL MacNAIR, PhD The Religious Society of Friends, more commonly known as the Quakers, was founded in the mid-1600s in England...
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