Authors
Jacqueline H. Abernathy
What’s Cruel for the Incarcerated is Cruel for the Terminally Ill
The Deserving and Undeserving Poor vs. the Worthy and Unworthy of Life: How Both Major Political Parties Pick and Choose Who They Help and Whom They Kill
Acyutananda
Acyutananda (“c” pronounced as in “ciao”) is a yoga monk. Blog: No Termination Without Representation.
The Cure for Headache (poem)
A Daunting Disadvantage for the Pro-Life Side
The Consistent Life Ethic and Traditional Tantra
Rob Arner
(CLN Board member)
Rob Arner is author of Consistently Pro-Life: The Ethics of Bloodshed in Ancient Christianity
My Day at the Democratic National Convention
The Consistent Life Consensus in Ancient Christianity
The Real Meaning of Mother’s Day
Where Does Martin Luther King Jr. Fit Into the Consistent Life Ethic?
Dorothy Day and the Consistent Life Ethic: Rejecting Conventional Political Paradigms
Mary Lou Bennett
The Tragedy of Carrie Buck: A Review of Imbeciles
Mothers and Daughters (movie review)
Book Review: “Resisting Throwaway Culture”
Daniel Berrigan
“Seamless Garment” – Poem by Daniel Berrigan
Ms. Boomer-ang (pen name)
Political Homelessness is Better than a Wrong Political Home
“Shut Up and Enjoy it!”: Abortion Promoters who Sexually Pressure Women
Asking Questions about Miscarriage and Abortion
The Danger of Coerced Euthanasia: Questions to Ask
Josh Brahm
Josh Brahm is the President and Co-Founder of Equal Rights Institute, an organization that trains pro-life advocates to think clearly, reason honestly, and argue persuasively. They use speaking, writing, YouTube videos, podcasts, online courses, and campus outreach to train pro-life advocates in the areas of practical dialogue tips, relational apologetics, pro-life philosophy, and sidewalk counseling.
Two Practical Dialogue Tips for Changing More Minds about Abortion
John Cavanaugh-O’Keefe
Five excerpts from the book Racism and Abortion by John Cavanaugh-O’Keefe:
- Plato’s Words about Eugenics
- The Jukes and Kallikaks “Studies”
- Sterilizing the “Unfit”
- Post-World War II Eugenics
- Eugenics in Roe v. Wade
Shane Claiborne
Hannah Cox
Hannah Cox is the Senior National Manager of Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty.
Is the Death Penalty Unethical?
Carol Crossed
(CLN Advisory Board member)
First Stirrings in Connecting the Life Issues
The Adventures of Prolifers for Survival: Scorned by Mobilization for Survival
Reminiscing on the Founding Meeting of the Consistent Life Network
Spice Things Up with the Consistent Life Ethic
Guns and Abortion: Extremists Resemble Each Other
Valentine Friends: Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass
Defenders of the Unborn: The Pro-life Movement Before Roe v. Wade / Carol Crossed (book by Daniel K. Williams)
Thad Crouch
(CLN Advisory Board member)
Thad Crouch produces Choose Life Abort War Podcast for Peace. His activism has included the American Solidarity Party, Consistent Life Network, Veterans For Peace, 40 Days for Life, Pax Christi, Respect Life Ministry, The SAFE Alliance, VisionForce, Texas Drought Project, and the Religion & Labor Network of Austin, Texas.
What Just Happened!?! Becoming Consistent Life Despite Myself. Part 1
What Just Happened!?! Becoming Consistent Life Despite Myself, Part 2
Culture of Conscience: Would You Pay Taxes that Fund Abortions if Hyde and Helms were Repealed?
January 22, Day of Horror & Hope: Reflections 2022 (contributor)
Mourning After & Hoping for the Future, We Call for a Consistent Life Texas!
David Cruz-Uribe
(CLN Board Member)
Mary Krane Derr
Mary’s expertise was in historical research for pro-life feminism and the consistent life ethic. She was responsible for most of the “Yesterday” section of ProLife Feminism: Yesterday and Today. She died in 2012; see our memorial special issue.
Progressive Prolifers at the Progressive Magazine 100th Anniversary Celebration
Ancient Roots of the Consistent Life Ethic: Greece
Women’s History Month: Jane Addams
Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Victoria Woodhull – First Woman to Run for U.S. President
Sarah Field
Sarah Field believes she can learn something from everyone she meets. She has also contributed to the Imago Dei Politics and American Solidarity Party blogs.
Abortion and War: Breaking through the Euphemism Barrier
Josephine Garnem
Josephine is an advocate and grassroots community mobilizer with over 26 years of extensive international and domestic experience. She serves on the National Council of Pax Christi USA, as co-chair of Pax Christi Metro DC-Baltimore, and on the board of the Center for Action and Contemplation.
Elena Muller Garcia
M.A. in Religious Studies
Destiny Herndon-de la Rosa
Why Conservatives Should Oppose the Death Penalty
Fr. Jim Hewes
Father Hewes helped found the Diocese of Rochester Human Life Commission in 1978, with our charter clearly being a consistent life ethic, five years before Cardinal Bernardin gave his famous talk at Fordham on the CLE.
Death Penalty and other Killing: The Destructive Effect on Us
Consistent Life History: Being Across the Board
Reflections from My Decades of Consistent Life Experience
The Case for Abortion as the “Preeminent Priority”
The Consistent Life Ethic: My Christian Perspective
Abortion and Other Issues of Life: Connecting the Dots
Abortion: A Restorative Justice Response
A Personal Reflection on a Just War
Medicine’s Movement towards Abandonment
Andrew Hocking
How to Value People Like Mister Rogers
Three Nonviolent Lessons from Dr. Who
How Black Panther Promotes a Consistent Life Ethic
A Consistent Day in the Neighborhood
Maria Horan
Sinn Féin and the New Legacy of Violence
The Referendum on Abortion in Ireland: The Violation of Rights
Northern Ireland’s New Colonialism
Ireland’s Votes for Violence: Sinn Féin and Abortion
Ireland’s New Silence and Its 6,666 Victims
Abby Johnson
Abby Johnson was the director of a Planned Parenthood clinic who’s now actively pro-life, as portrayed in the movie Unplanned, which was based on her book of the same name.
Abby Johnson Remembers Dan Berrigan
Leslie Keech (1955-1989)
Leslie served as treasurer for our member group Feminists for Life of America and was very active in various aspects of the pro-life movement in Kansas City.
Better Living (for men) Through Surgery (for women)
Jim Kelly
The History of Framing the Arguments
The Future of Fake Conservatism
Katharine Gilchrist
Lois Kerschen
Lois is an author and retired educator who has been engaged for 40 years in pro-life and other activism. She co-founded and was a long-time board member of Democrats for Life of America. Lois is also a supporter of Feminists for Life and involved with church charities.
Post-pandemic: What Worries Me
A Process of Tender Understanding and Loving Closure when Life Ends
Book Review – Rehumanize: A Vision to Secure Human Rights for All
Jeff Koloze
Jeff is a member of University Faculty for Life; our post is adapted from a paper he gave there.
Right-to-Life Issues in Contemporary Gay and Lesbian Literature
Eve Dawn Kuha
Coming to Peace and Living a Consistent Life After Military Service
Frank Lane
My Personal Journey on Veganism, War, and Abortion
Sharon Long
Sharon Long: My Personal Pro-life Journey
Mary Liepold
Off the Fence and Taking My Stand on Abortion
Seeing Is Believing: Films to Inspire a Consistent Life Viewpoint
Alex Christian Lucas
Alex Christian Lucas is a New Orleans native who has been involved in pro-life activism since his high school days and founded the current Consistent Life Ethic pro-life student group at Loyola University New Orleans. He is a member of the Committee on Human Trafficking for the Archdiocese of New Orleans, has testified in Committee at the Louisiana capitol to end the death penalty, participated in mother/baby supply drives for immigrants at the border, and raised money for the homeless at Covenant House. After his graduation from Loyola in the spring of 2020, Alex Christian will pursue a Masters degree in musical theatre from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London.
Rachel MacNair
(CLN Board member)
Rachel – Reflections on Social Movements
Activists, Beware: Burnout is a Very Real Danger
Tribalism: A Major Obstacle for Building Bridges
Inconsistency Sabotages the Peace Movement
Almost No One? How Survey Polls Work
Why Haven’t We Ended Abortion?
Unconnecting a Dot? (Campaign Nonviolence)
Why the Interfaith Approach is Important
The Civil War Conundrum, 150 Years Later
The Death Penalty and Abortion: The Conservative/Liberal Straitjacket
Instead of Division, Schools of Thought
January 22, Day of Horror & Hope: Reflections 2022 (contributor)
The Life / Right Divide: A New Approach
Trump Sabotaging the Pro-Life Movement
Rachel – Strategies
Boycott Strategy: CVS & Walgreens
Peace and Life Referendums (2020)
Elections 2020: Three Consistent-Life Approaches
My Ideas for Post-Roe Legislation
What History Shows: The Consistent Life Ethic Works for Pro-life Referendums
Slavery: Removing the Exception
Rachel – How Ideas Work
The Creativity of the Fore-closed Option
The Mind’s Drive for Consistency
Applying Pacifist Insights to Abortion
If You Can’t Explain the Opposition to Your Case
The Safety of Incredibly Dangerous Things
Rachel – Reflections on Aspects of Issues
Figuring out Euthanasia: What Does it Really Mean?
More than Double the Trouble: Another Way of Connecting [intersectionality]
A Historical Success Story: Duels
Our Experience with Overturning Terrible Court Decisions
Would Nonviolence Work on the Nazis?
Difference this Time: Prolife Heroism (Garrett Swasey, the pro-life police officer killed in shootings at the Colorado Planned Parenthood]
Pandemics Related to Christmas
Vaccinations and Tender Consciences
What Studies Show: Impact of Abortion Regulations
Rachel – Pro-life feminism (see also sexual violence below)
Isolating Women and Encouraging Jerks
What Do Men Have to Say on Abortion?
Why the Hyde Amendment Helps Low-Income Women
“The Daily Show” Doesn’t Do Its Homework
Isolating Women and Encouraging Jerks
Rachel – Sexual Violence
How Abortion is Useful for Rape Culture
The Message of “Never Rarely Sometimes Always”: Abortion Gets Sexual Predators Off the Hook
(this is also under “movie reviews” below)
Abortion Facilitates Sex Abuse: Documentation
A Pro-Life Feminist Critique of the “Rape and Incest Exception”
Rachel – Planned Parenthood
Noncooperation with Planned Parenthood
Finding Alternatives to Planned Parenthood
Does Planned Parenthood Reduce Abortions by Preventing Pregnancies?
Planned Parenthood Staff Revolt
Medical Dangers, Sex Abuse, Labor Problems, Racism: Documenting Planned Parenthood
Rachel – Film Reviews
Hollywood Movie Insights (The Giver, The Whistleblower, and The Ides of March)
Hollywood Movie Insights II (Never Look Away, The Report, and Dark Waters)
Movies with Racism Themes: “Gosnell” and “The Hate U Give”
Jasmine, Aladdin, and the Power of Nonviolence
The Darkest Hour: “Glorifying” War?
The Message of “Never Rarely Sometimes Always”: Abortion Gets Sexual Predators Off the Hook
Movie Review: Sound of Freedom
Documentary Review: The Movement and the Madman
Rachel – Psychology
War Hysteria and Post-Dobbs Reactions
Excerpt – Peace Psychology Perspectives on Abortion
Excerpt — Peace Psychology Perspectives on Abortion: Wars Cause Abortion
Excerpt – Peace Psychology Perspectives on Abortion: Child Abuse
Violence Bolstered by Professional Contradictions (in the American Psychological Association)
Scientific Integrity Problems – Psychology (in the American Psychological Association)
Suicide Prevention and Other Kinds of Killing
Beyond the Human – Plus Everyday Peace Actions
Post-Roe Stats: the Natural Experiment
Rachel – Personal Experiences
Tony Magliano
Tony Magliano is an internationally syndicated social justice and peace columnist. He is available to speak at diocesan or parish gatherings. Tony can be reached at tmag@zoominternet.net.
Over 20 Million People Facing Starvation – And We Should Care!
Becoming a Catholic Conscientious Objector
Tony Masalonis
(CLN Board member)
Mary Meehan
Mary’s website: Meehan Reports on Life Issues
Activists Reminisce: An Oral History of Prolifers for Survival
A President for Life and Peace?
Rosalyn Mitchell
Kristin Monahan
Parallels of Veganism and Prolife-ism
Sonja Morin
Sonja Morin serves as Consistent Life Network’s Communications Consultant, in addition to contributing to its written publications. Her work bridges the gap between consistent life ethic advocacy and artistic design. She can be found on social media @couervivant, or on her website westcottcollective.org.
Not Your Pawns: A CLE Examination of the Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Walk On: Responding To Recent Situations in the Pro-Life Movement
Beneath Layers of Lies: The Surge in Efforts to Legalize Euthanasia
Vasu Murti
Suffering and Injustice Concern Us All [connection to compassion for animals]
Abortion and War are the Karma for Killing Animals
Patrick O’Neill
(with wife Mary Rider)
Remembering Rep. Walter B. Jones, Jr.
Christina Yao Pelliccioni
(current CLN President)
How Caring for the Earth Fits into the Consistent Life Ethic
Aneeza Pervez
Reconstruction of a Nation: Resilience in the Face of Terror (Pakistan)
Karen Swallow Prior
Nukes and the Pro-Life Christian: A Conservative Takes a Second Look at the Morality of Nuclear Weapons
Jessica Renshaw
In addition to the book The Reynolds Family, the Nuclear Age and a Brave Wooden Boat, Jessica has written To Russia with Love: An American Family Challenges Nuclear Testing, and a biography of her mother: MUM: The Conscience, Courage and Compassion of Barbara Reynolds, 1915-1990.
The Reynolds Family, the Nuclear Age and a Brave Wooden Boat
Mary Rider
Activists Reminisce: An Oral History of Prolifers for Survival
Bill Samuel
(CLN Board member)
Does the Consistent Life Ethic Water Down Life Issues?
Supporting the Dignity of Every Life
Brown v. Board of Education and Me
A Way Beyond the Abortion Wars? / (review of book by Charles C. Camosy)
Martha Shuping, M.D.
Abortion and Violence against Pregnant Women
Julia Smucker
(CLN Board member)
The Price of Violence: When Dehumanizing the Vulnerable Hurts One’s Own Causes
Amnesty International’s Blind Spot
Defining Reproductive Justice: An Encounter
The Redemptive Personalism of Saint Oscar Romero
Media Stories on Abortion Access
What Does it Mean to be Inconsistent?
Is Abortion Different from Other Violence?
A Healing Metaphor: Pandemic as War
To Know a Person is to Recognize a Human
Justice Littered with Injustice: Viewing Just Mercy in a Charged Moment
My Christian CLE Perspective: Absolute Nonviolence Across the Issues
Threats to the Unborn Beyond Abortion
Must We Resign Ourselves to Violence?
The Violence That Didn’t Happen (review of Stranger at the Gate)
Monica Sohler
Monica with baby Maura
My Difficulty in Voting: Identifying the Problem
Lisa Stiller
(CLN Board member)
People Are So Much More Than Their Circumstances
The Adventures of Organizing as a Consistent Lifer
Adventures as a Delegate to the Democratic Party Convention
Intolerance Knows No Partisan Boundaries
The Frustrations of Being a Consistent Life Activist
Removing Health Care Access is an Act of Violence
Would My Grandparents Have Died in the Pogroms?
Fifty Years of Protesting for Peace
Life as a Pro-life Progressive
Laura Denvir Stith
(former Missouri Supreme Court Judge)
Judge Stith recently retired from the Court after serving 20 years.
Death Penalty Jurisprudence of Former Missouri Supreme Court Judge Laura Denvir Stith
Richard Stith
(CLN Board member)
Richard Stith is a professor emeritus of law at Valparaiso University in Indiana. Most of his writings can be found here.
Equal Concern for Each Human Being, Not for Each Human Issue
Open Letter to Fellow Human Rights Activists
When “Choice” Itself Hurts the Quality of Life
The Mirror-Image Counterpart of the Selfish Society
Oppressors of Women Scapegoat Fetuses to Preserve Patriarchy
“Trust Landlords”: Pro-Choice Candidate Supports Eviction Rights
Pro-lifers for Choice are Dangerous
Behind and Beyond the Shout for Abortion
Tom Taylor
Stewardship and the Consistent Life Ethic
Sarah Terzo
(CLN Board member)
Perspectives on Issues
Different Ways of Looking at Issues
People with Disabilities and the Poor
How Euthanasia and Poverty Threaten the Disabled
How Ableism Led (and Leads) to Abortion
A Lawyer’s Turnaround on Baby Doe with Her Own Down Syndrome Baby
Social Programs to Help the Poor are Pro-life
The Impact of Family Caps on Abortion
Bigotry against Babies with Down Syndrome
Bigotry against Babies with Down Syndrome: International Experiences
Kate Cox and Stories of Trisonomy 18
Euthanasia by Poverty: Stories from Canada
Those Who Killed
Abortion Doctor Says: We are the Executioners
Healing for the Perpetrators: The Psychological Damage from Different Types of Killing
“But I was Empty”: The Story of a Doctor Who Left Planned Parenthood
How People Are Hurt
The Random Death Sentence: COVID in Prisons and Jails
Hospital’s Attitude Adds to Couple’s Heartbreak
“I Became Like a Soldier Going to Battle”: Post-Abortion Trauma
Two Women Pregnant from Rape, Two Outcomes
Heartbreakingly Common: Suicide Among Veterans
Police Brutality
Police Brutality to the Preborn
Police Brutality Against Protesters
Sophie Trist
#SayHisName: The Medical Murder of Michael Hickson
John Whitehead
(CLN Advisory Board member, past Secretary and President)
John – Lessons from History
Rejecting Mass Murder: Looking Back on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Finding Common Ground on and Learning from World War II
The Wages of War, Part 1: How Abortion Came to Japan
Wages of War, Part 2: How Forced Sterilization Came to Japan
Finding Common Ground on and Learning from World War II
“Everybody Else in the World Was Dead”: Hiroshima’s Legacy
East Germany’s Peaceful Revolution: Remembering the Berlin Wall’s Fall
“Remember Pearl Harbor—Keep ‘Em Dying”: War and Racism in the Pacific
The Danger That Faces Us All: Hiroshima and Nagasaki after 75 Years
“The Affairs of a Handful of Natives”: Nuclear Testing and Racism
Lethal from the Start: Uranium Mining’s Danger to the Most Vulnerable
No Combat Experience, No Opinion: Parallels in Pro-bombing and Pro-choice Rhetoric
People Standing against Tanks: The Civil Resistance of August 1991 and Its Ambiguous Legacy
Hard Questions about the Response to Terrorism: Looking Back on September 11th
Unholy Trinity: The Terrible Consequences of the First Nuclear Test
Stepping Back from the Brink: The Cuban Missile Crisis and Lessons for Today
Sleepwalking toward Nuclear War: The Lessons of the Able Archer Scare
A Complex Man’s Complex Legacy: What the Movie Rustin Leaves Out
John – Comments on Contemporary Events
Looking Beyond Anti-Imperialism: A Response to Some Arguments about the Ukraine War
Act Before We Reach “Midnight”: The Need to Seek a Cease-Fire in Ukraine
The Need for Peacemakers: Two Urgent Dangers That Require a Response
Human Rights & the Right to Life: Reconsidering Conventional Human Rights Activism
Sickness is the Health of the State? Civil Liberties and Conflict during a Pandemic
“Millions Who Are Already Hanging by a Thread”: The Global Repercussions of Covid-19
“I Gave Birth to Too Many Children”: Population Control and Repression in Xinjiang
The Biden Administration and Russia: Steps to Build a More Stable Relationship
Masking Up but Not Shutting Up: Defending Freedom of Speech during a Pandemic
A Cold War Comes Home? Anti-Asian Racism in Light of US-China Hostility
Encouraging Words That Require Action: Comments on the Geneva Summit
Seeing War’s Victims: The New York Times Investigation of Civilian Casualties in Iraq and Syria
Achieving Diplomatic Breakthroughs in the Past and Future: The “Opening to China” After 50 Years
A Catastrophe Decades in the Making: The Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Untying the Knot of War: Seek Negotiation, Not Escalation in Ukraine
Buy the Time to Make Peace: Seeking a Cease-Fire in the Ukraine War
Reflections on the Charlie Gard Case
Three Reasons for Opposing the US Bombing of Syria
Varieties of Hawk: Clinton v. Trump on Foreign Policy
John – Nuclear Weapons
A Global Effort to Protect Life: The UN Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons
Wasting Money on Instruments of Death: Nuclear Weapons in the 2022 Budget
A Hidden Cost of the Ukraine War: How Russia’s Invasion Encourages the Spread of Nuclear Weapons
The Persisting Threat of Nuclear Weapons: A Brief Primer
Fallout at Home Base: Nuclear Testing within the United States
The Logic of Escalation: Nuclear Threats in Belarus and South Korea
“Never Again”: Taking Action against the Nuclear Threat
Are We Finally Waking Up? Signs of New Awareness of the Nuclear Threat. / John Whitehead
John – Strategy
Seeking Peaceful Coexistence: The Varied Ways of Supporting a Consistent Life Ethic
Making the Case for Peace to Conservatives
Using Empathy during a New Cold War
Breaking Stereotypes in Fearful Times
Pro-Life Voting Strategy: A Problem without an Answer
Specialization or Generalization? The Many Ways of Following the Consistent Life Ethic
Dialog on Life Issues: Avoiding Some Obstacles to Communication
“Is One Life Issue More Important Than the Rest?”: A Question That Might Not Need an Answer
January 22, Day of Horror & Hope: Reflections 2022 (contributor)
Promoting Peace at Home and Abroad: A Challenge for Peace Activists
In Defense of Detachment: The Different Approaches to Protecting Lives
Imagining a Different Type of Peace Organization
John – Reviews
Recognizing Humanity: Orwell and the Consistent Life Ethic
“Somewhere Else When the Trigger is Pulled”: Orwell and War
How to Move from Theory to Practice: Reading “A Consistent Life” (book by Mary Grace Coltharp & Aimee Murphy)
A War on the People: A Review of One Child Nation
Catastrophe by Mistake: The Button and the Danger of Accidental Nuclear War
Comprehending Horror through Animation: The Art of the Anti-War Animated Movie
Displaced and Brought Together by War: The Tale of Giovanni’s Island
A Plea for Quiet – and for Peace: Consistent Life Ethic Themes in Fahrenheit 451
Julianne Wiley
Julianne (aka Juli Loesch) founded Prolifers for Survival, a group which focused on opposing nuclear weapons and abortion; it was at the final meeting of that group that the Consistent Life Network (then the Seamless Garment Network) was founded.
Courageous Woman: Elizabeth Anscombe (1919-2001)
Activists Reminisce: An Oral History of Prolifers for Survival
C.J. Williams
(CLN Board member)
Kae-Leah Williamson
Kae-Leah is a CLE and disability activist who has a lifelong passion for writing and storytelling. When she isn’t advocating for human rights on social media, she likes to spend her time coloring mermaid pictures and watching shows about history and other worlds.
