The Consistent Life Ethic: My Christian Perspective
by Father Jim Hewes Editor’s Note: There are of course a wide variety of Christian perspectives, and we have a different one coming up for next week’s post. We also welcome perspectives from a variety of religions, as listed at the bottom, and invite people to share theirs with us. I understand the Consistent…
Wasting Money on Instruments of Death: Nuclear Weapons in the 2022 Budget
by John Whitehead The Biden administration’s budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2022 contains much to disturb peace activists. The budget continues the long-standing pattern of grotesquely large military spending, with $715 billion allocated to the Defense Department. Further, the budget specifically continues to fund lavishly the most extreme instruments of death, nuclear weapons. Peace activists…
A Daunting Disadvantage for the Pro-Life Side
by Acyutananda (see author’s blog) Of all the consistent pro-life policies or political positions, I have always chosen to focus my own efforts most on the anti-abortion position. This is partly because numerically legal abortion normally accounts for vastly more human-rights violations than say, capital punishment or unjust war. It is also because only anti-abortion…
Peas of the Same Pod
by Elena Muller Garcia, M.A. in Religious Studies About ten years ago one of my co-workers approached my desk and began to address me by saying: “Did you see those illegals — ” I stopped him abruptly midsentence. “Calling undocumented immigrants ‘illegals’ is the same as calling the unborn child a ‘fetus’. Both terms…