Response from WILPF           Here is the response from the Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom to the four ads submitted for their conference program; the typos are in the original:   ===========================================   thank you for your submission to place an advertisement in the printed version of our Programme book for the WIlPF Conference in The Hague from April, 27 to April, 29.   Since the space we can offer is very limited and we had far too many submissions than we have space for, we are very unfortunate not to be able to place all the ads in the book.   Out of many submissions we were forced to choose the ones which are most in line with the political views of our organisation.   We are very sorry to inform you that we can't place your advertisement in the Programme book but wish you all the best for the future!   ===========================================          We do still have a couple of people going in the hope of being able to hand out leaflets. But the more, the better. If anyone else is going to this conference in The Hague, or could be in the vicinity during that time, please let us know at weekly@consistent-life.org      ^^^^^^^   Remarkably Poor Excuse for Murder                 In 1209, with a Catholic army marching on Béziers in northern France, the town refused to turn over the targeted “heretics” (Cathars and Waldensians), and most Catholics refused to flee to save themselves. So a massacre of the entire town was contemplated. When it was pointed out that true Catholics were mixed in with the “heretics,” an abbot is reported to have said something like: "Kill them all, and let God sort them out."         This story comes to mind with the offer of a t-shirt that says: “Abortion sends babies to God faster.”         Most euphemisms for chopping people up simply dehumanize the victims.  Justifying the action by drafting God to clean things up in an afterlife is basically a way of saying there is no problem with any murder under any circumstances.           Actually, it may be that dehumanization of the babies is truly meant, and this slogan is making fun of the perceived religious proclivities of pro-lifers.         Either way, it involves extraordinarily sloppy thinking.    ^^^^^^^   Sustaining the World                  Tom Taylor had an excellent letter to the editor in the Washington Post. Entitled “Sustaining the world depends on a reverence for life,” he’s responding to an article on an abortion clinic trying to give an “almost spa-like feel” to normalize abortion.          He says: “The article mentioned nothing about the clinic seeking to grapple with any sense of loss or mourning. It is important to mourn loss in all contexts, whether it be through abortion, war, ethnic and racial strife, street violence, catastrophic events, environmental destruction, climate change, animal and habitat loss or other causes. I worry that society is becoming increasingly desensitized to all this loss. Our world is a complex web of interconnected life in many forms and stages. Desensitizing life at any stage or in any form runs the risk of desensitizing life as a whole. Sustaining our world depends on a reverence for all life.”   Note: adding positive comments from consistent-lifers would be helpful.   ^^^^^^^   Quotation of the Week Laura Peredo, president of Ravens Respect Life at Benedictine College March 17, 2015 at a press conference supporting a law to repeal the death penalty in the U.S. state of Kansas           No crime can change the fundamental truth that every human life possesses dignity from the moment of conception until natural death. I am one of a growing number of young people who support repealing the death penalty—a reform that demonstrates our unwavering commitment to safeguarding life at all stages, without exceptions.

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