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…
The Consistent Peace Ethic
by Rachel MacNair The Consistent Life Network names its e-newsletter Peace & Life Connections. We make a big point of covering peace issues as the same as life issues and life issues being the same as peace issues. We dislike the political red/blue divide that pits “peace” and “life” against each other in terms of…
Encouraging Words That Require Action: Comments on the Geneva Summit
by John Whitehead President Biden met, for the first time since his inauguration, Russian President Vladimir Putin on June 16 in Geneva. While the summit meeting didn’t produce any dramatic breakthroughs in US-Russian relations, it did provide some encouraging signs. The two countries’ joint statement, released after the summit, contained an important declaration on the…
The Cure for Headache
by AcyutanandaCut off your head to be rid ofAll those pounds of ugly fat!Can’t you find any betterSolution than that?“Got to end this endless war,”Said President Truman,So he pulled out all the stops,Did something inhuman.Tony Timpa got excitable(It was cocaine self-pollution),So they arrested his cardiac,Called it conflict resolution.Your child was inside of you,I know you…
The Case for Abortion as the “Preeminent Priority”
by Fr. Jim Hewes Top Ten Reasons Wars killed over 100 million people in the last century. It took a hundred years to reach that number. The United Nations estimates 45-50 million abortion each year, so it would take only two or three years of abortions to surpass that number. The brutal reality is that…
A Cold War Comes Home? Anti-Asian Racism in Light of US-China Hostility
by John Whitehead Racism against Americans of Asian heritage has received significant attention recently. Concerns about anti-Asian hate crimes arose last spring as the Covid-19 pandemic began to affect the United States. The horrifying murders of eight people, six of them Asian, in the greater Atlanta area in March 2021 revived concerns about bigotry toward…
“I Became Like a Soldier Going to Battle”: Post-Abortion Trauma
by Sarah Terzo Jacqueline Middler had two abortions and deeply regretted them. She wrote a book, White Stick, hoping to convince other women not to make the same choices. (All quotations below are from this book). Middler became pregnant her first year of college. She didn’t know what to do but was leaning towards choosing…
Vaccinations and Tender Consciences
by Rachel MacNair I’m about to make some heavy criticisms of the way the Covid vaccines came to be, so I start by saying I’ve now gotten both of my Moderna vaccinations. I encourage everyone qualified to be socially responsible to the community by getting theirs as well. Failing to do so, under current circumstances,…
Making a Nonviolent Revolution – Review of Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know
by John Whitehead Certain historical episodes of nonviolent resistance to injustice are famous: the Indian struggle for independence; the American civil rights movement; or the Arab Spring uprisings come to mind. However, many people who are aware of such episodes aren’t familiar with the larger history of nonviolent resistance nor with how such resistance can…