The Poor Cry Out for Justice, and We Respond with Legalized Abortion

Posted on September 27, 2016 By

by Graciela Olivarez, 1972 Commissioner appointed by US President Richard Nixon from the “Separate Statement of Graciela Olivarez” in Report of the President’s Commission on Population and the American Future U.S. Government Printing Office, 1972 To brush aside a separate statement on the issue of abortion on the grounds that it is based on religious…


If Men Could Get Pregnant

Posted on September 20, 2016 By

by Rachel MacNair   The “Sacrament” We’ve recently had the idea of what would happen with abortion if men could get pregnant come up twice. In last week’s blog, Mary Liepold said: “I still agree with blessed, angry Florynce Kennedy, may she rest in peace, that if men could get pregnant abortion would be a…


Off the Fence and Taking My Stand on Abortion

Posted on September 13, 2016 By

by Mary Liston Liepold, OSF, Ph.D. I’d been saying for decades that I straddled the fence on the abortion issue. I’m a middle-ground Catholic―definitely not “recovering,” but also not Rome’s most docile daughter. You’d never catch me at a rally for or against. Though I’m a true-blue liberal and I make plenty of donations, I’ve…


When “Choice” Itself Hurts the Quality of Life

Posted on September 7, 2016 By

by Richard Stith Consistent Life Network board member and Research (non-teaching) Professor of Law Editor’s note: these ideas are more fully developed in a 2011 paper available for sale, entitled Her Choice, Her Problem: How Having a Choice Can Diminish Family Solidarity. Here’s a question about “choice” and abortion, assisted suicide, and voluntary euthanasia: Could…