Campaign Nonviolence
 
        The week of activities called Campaign Nonviolence, sponsored by Pace e Bene and endorsed by many groups including Consistent Life, has now successfully happened with a variety of events all over, mostly September 21-28.
 

 

Pictured:
 
Top Left: Sponsored by CL member group Feminists for Nonviolent Choices, Reggie Littlejohn gave three well-attended presentations explaining the world-wide mass killing of baby girls, now termed gendercide.
 
Top Right: CL member group Sisters of Mercy in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
 
Bottom Left: CL board member Lisa Stiller with the rest of the cast of a play, “Dead Man Walking,” based on CL Endorser Helen Prejean's book about her experience with the death penalty. Voices for Peace performers, left to right: Marshall LaCombe, Rich Freeman, Barbara LaCombe, Lisa Stiller and Paul Barton
 
Bottom Right: Lisa Stiller and Barbara LaCombe at Campaign Nonviolence vigil
 

 
Yale Gathering for Life and Truth

        CL Secretary John Whitehead staffed an exhibit table at the 2^nd annual Vita et Veritas Conference, which Consistent Life co-sponsored, at Yale University on September 19-20.
        Serrin Foster, of CL member group Feminists for Life, spoke about the long tradition of pro-life feminism, from Mary Wollstonecraft to Equal Rights Amendment author Alice Paul—who declared that “abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women”—and beyond. She also described Feminists for Life’s long-running efforts to build a society that supports pregnant women and mothers, particularly on college campuses.
        Kelsey Hazzard of CL member group Secular ProLife spoke on a panel with Christian and Muslim activists to discuss how people of varying faiths or no faith can promote the pro-life cause. Kelsey commented, “If you look at sex trafficking, the battle against sex trafficking, and the various organizations that are moving forward in that cause, many of them are Christian . . . People don’t think about it as ‘if you’re fighting sex trafficking and you’re motivated by your religion, you’re violating the separation of Church and State.’ Nobody thinks that way, because it’s silly. And I think our goal ultimately is to have abortion put in that same kind of frame. We should all be working together to end it, because it really is a human rights issue.” (Watch video of the panel discussion here.)
 
 

 

 

 
Quotation Topics Index
 
        Are you looking for a quotation to make a specific point? You can look up some things in our subject index. But now we’ve added a Quotations Topic Index to help find a good quote on wider topics:
 
Connecting Issues – peace advocates who explain why abortion is against peace principles; pro-life advocates who explain compatibility of peace/human rights with pro-life principles; Pro-life advocates who explain why the death penalty / weaponized drones are against pro-life principles; abortion and nuclear weapons; multiple issues; and seamless shroud -- people who favor abortion but use other issues of violence that show what’s wrong. 
Dynamics of Violence – euphemisms, psychological aftermath of committing violence, slippery slope.
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Responding to Criticisms of the consistent life ethic
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Quotation of the Week
Shelley Douglass
“Nonviolence and Feminism,” 1975
 
        For years we’ve asked the Catholic Church: “How come you’re so upset about abortion but say nothing about [the American war in] Vietnam?” As Daniel Berrigan has pointed out, that question can legitimately be turned back upon us. We have been concerned about Vietnam, but what about abortion?