Movies with Racism Themes: “Gosnell” and “The Hate U Give”
by Rachel MacNair A note at the beginning of the movie Gosnell: The Trial of America’s Biggest Serial Killer lets us know it’s based entirely on court transcripts and eyewitness accounts, being as true to events as a movie can attempt. The Hate U Give, on the other hand, is fiction. Yet it’s clearly based…
How to Move from Theory to Practice: Reading “A Consistent Life”
by John Whitehead Let’s say you’ve succeeded in winning someone over to the consistent life ethic. This person now wants to defend human life against abortion, the death penalty, euthanasia, war, and the myriad other threats to life. Now the question arises, “What should I do to promote the consistent life ethic?” A valuable new…
The Impact of Abortion on Child Abuse
by Rachel MacNair Here’s the reasoning for an assertion that abortion availability helps reduce child abuse: Abuse can be caused when children were born unwanted and are therefore resented. There may be fewer births in those groups most likely to engage in child maltreatment. And here’s the reasoning to think abortion availability helps increase child…
The Redemptive Personalism of Saint Oscar Romero
by Julia Smucker On the day before he was killed, Oscar Romero, who on Sunday October 14 will be officially declared a saint in the Catholic Church, delivered an impassioned plea to members of the Salvadoran army: Brothers, you are a part of our own people. You are killing your own brother and sister campesinos,…
The Referendum on Abortion in Ireland: The Violation of Rights
by Maria Horan “The [Irish] State acknowledges the right to life of the unborn and, with due regard to the equal right to life of the mother, guarantees in its laws to respect, and, as far as practicable, by its laws to defend and vindicate that right.” Inserted into the Irish Constitution on the 7th…