Reflections on the Charlie Gard Case
by John Whitehead The legal battle over the treatment of Charlie Gard, a gravely ill baby in the United Kingdom, recently ended. Charlie’s parents, Chris Gard and Connie Yates, and the Great Ormond Street Hospital disagreed over whether to pursue an experimental medical treatment. The parents had wished to pursue the treatment, while the hospital…
Abortion and War are the Karma for Killing Animals
by Vasu Murti In the tradition of offering a wide variety of consistent-life views, Vasu Murti offers a Hindu perspective, also using Christian and secular reasoning. This was originally written as a comment to our recent post, War Causes Abortion. Abortion and war are the karma for killing animals. The reincarnationist strategy for ending…
War Causes Abortion
by Rachel MacNair and Catherine Coyle This is a condensed version of Chapter 4 in Peace Psychology Perspectives on Abortion. References are in APA style – authors in parentheses, full citation at the bottom. War as an Instrument of Unchosen Abortion In an article entitled “Abortion and War,” Emanuel Charles McCarthy (2011) points out what…
Abortion Doctor Says: We are the Executioners
by Sarah Terzo Pro-choice author Magda Denes, Ph.D., interviewed abortionists and clinic workers for her book In Necessity and Sorrow, Life and Death inside an Abortion Hospital. Surprisingly, many of the abortionists she interviewed admitted that they were terminating life. One abortionist made it very clear that he knew he was killing. He speaks first about how strange…
Breaking Stereotypes in Fearful Times
by John Whitehead Several incidents of terrorism that occurred in the United Kingdom this spring—the suicide bombing of a concert in Manchester, two attacks in London by men using trucks and knives—have understandably received much attention and provoked much horror and outrage. Along with such appropriate responses as sympathy for the victims and their families…
Would Nonviolence Work on the Nazis?
by Rachel MacNair While it took time to realize the extent of the Nazis’ brutality, the night of November 9-10, 1938, gave intense warning that Jews were in great danger. Hundreds of synagogues and thousands of businesses were attacked with sledgehammers. Several dozen Jews were killed, in what became known as Kristallnacht, the Night…
What Do Men Have to Say on Abortion?
by Rachel MacNair Every once in a while the charge comes up that since men can’t get pregnant, they shouldn’t have any say on public policy on abortion. This is a rather odd position, inasmuch as no pregnancy every occurred without male participation somehow. And the behavior men have in response to their own start…
Activists Reminisce: An Oral History of Prolifers for Survival
Excerpt from Chapter 12, Consistently Opposing Killing Note: This comes from a conference call done for a chapter in the anthology, Consistently Opposing Killing: From Abortion to Assisted Suicide, the Death Penalty, and War, published by Praeger. Juli is Julianne Wiley (also known as Juli Loesch); Rachel is Rachel MacNair. Mary Rider was also on…
A Pro-Life Feminist Critique of the “Rape and Incest Exception”
Editor’s note: On May 29, 2024, the author found that the link to Shauna Prewitt’s article as a PDF no longer worked, and so this post is slight revised to link to the issue of the law journal that has the article; getting the article itself now involves a charge. by Rachel MacNair Pregnancies resulting…