“Seamless Garment” — Poem by Daniel Berrigan
The beauty of the “seamless garment” image! No one, not one exposed to the rude winds of the world, No one, however lorn or lost, out in the cold. No one rejected, no one unwanted! the unborn, the aged, ill, condemned, the expendable, “lives of no worth”- no matter the tag, everyone matters! If these…
Celebrating the Life of Daniel Berrigan
Daniel Berrigan died April 30, 2016, just days before his 95th birthday, from natural causes. We celebrate the long life of this effective consistent-life advocate. Most famous for his long-lasting anti-war activism and many books and poetry on peace and social justice, we always knew him as a dear friend. Dan and Consistent-Life Activism Dan was involved in…
Book Review: Defenders of the Unborn
by Carol Crossed Defenders of the Unborn: The Pro-life Movement before Roe v Wade is one of the few books about abortion that I read without dozing off within the first 15 minutes. Maybe this is because I know very little about the movement in the 1960s and 70s. My days were absorbed with petitions…
Who the Law Targets
by Rachel MacNair In recent news [in April of 2016], a candidate known for incoherence and failure to understand the basics on a wide range of policies showed these tendencies yet again. He said women who had abortions (if it were banned again in the U.S.) should be punished for getting them. Many abortion defenders,…
A Historical Success Story: Duels
by Rachel MacNair Within Consistent Life we’ve had long discussions about which issues to include when brevity is needed, and we often expand to related issues when writing at length. But there’s one form of socially-approved killing we’ve never seriously contemplated adding to the list: duels. This is of course because they aren’t socially…
Should Abortions be Illegal?
by Bill Samuel In 2014, according to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports, 84,041 rapes were reported in the United States. It is well known that many rapes are not reported, so the actual incidence of rape is greater than that. Rape is a felony in every jurisdiction in the United States, and has…