Thoughts on the 2026 U.S. Mid-Terms
by Rachel MacNair First, good news: Idaho turned down a petition-driven effort to overturn their abortion ban. Colorado turned down a petition-driven effort to require local police to turn over arrestees to ICE, which could have been devastating for pregnant women, unborn children, war refugees, etc. Massachusetts turned down a petition-driven veto referendum, so gun safety…
“A Chain Reaction of Spiritual Atoms”: Buddhist Opposition to Nuclear Weapons
Part 1 in a series on opposition to nuclear weapons within different religions. by John Whitehead Hatred will not cease by hatred, but by love alone. This is the ancient law. All fear violence, all are afraid of death. Seeing the similarity to oneself, one should not use violence or have it used. — Dhammapada…
The Rehumanize International Conference 2026
The conference started out with a dinner honoring long-time consistent lifer and pro-life feminist Carol Crossed, seen here at the microphone: Carol has served on our Board of Directors and for a time was our Executive Director; she’s still on our Advisory Board and quite active with us. ================== Here we offer some thoughts from…
Revisiting Abortion Advocate Predictions Regarding Miscarriage Care
by Jacqueline Harvey Abernathy, Ph.D. October is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month. As a mother of eight, only two of whom survived to birth, I am well aware of how devastating losing a baby is, especially since I’ve dedicated myself for decades to pass laws that protect all pre-born children from dying from abortion…
The Botched Execution of Christa Pike
by Christina Yao Pelliccioni The Christa Pike case has led to many different twists, turns, and inconsistencies. To start with the facts, Christa Pike was sentenced to death after murdering her classmate in 1995. On September 30, she was given two doses of the lethal drug pentobarbital. After she survived, she was taken to the hospital….
Referendums for November 3, 2026: Voting Against Violence
by Rachel MacNair November 4, 2026: Results added in green. Since 2020, we’ve been running a project website that tracks U.S. state and local referendums dealing with socially-approved killing of human beings (abortion, the death penalty, euthanasia, war), or related structural violence that leads to killing (poverty and discriminatory practices). Peace and Life Referendums Abortion…
Scandals with Mirror Images
by Rachel MacNair A video clip I saw recently offers a point I’ve thought of for a long time. Since it’s Chuck Todd making the point, and he’s a news analyst of long stature, the point has more heft than me just thinking it alone. He says it’s a theory he’s not 100% certain of,…
One Catholic Case Against Nuclear Deterrence
compiled by Fr. Jim Hewes By the end of 1945, the blast, heat, and radiation of the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki had killed an estimated 74,000 human beings made in the image of God in Nagasaki and 140,000 human beings made in the image of God in Hiroshima. Most were civilians. Many…
Reaching the Chaplain that Blessed the Bomb
by Jim Hewes Fr. Charlie McCarthy [Emanuel Charles McCarthy] once told me about a conference he was to give to the priests of the Diocese of Detroit. The Cardinal sent a letter asking all of his 800 priests to come to Charlie’s presentation. When he got there, only 8 had come. Yet Charlie gave…
Orphans of Hiroshima
by Sarah Terzo On August 6, 1945, the United States military dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. This one of a series on Hiroshima orphans. The rest of the series can be found on my Substack. The stories in this article are from Dr. Arata Osada’s Children of Hiroshima, which was published in Japan…