Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Full excerpt of the section on Wangari Maathi (1940-2011) from Pro-Life Feminism: Yesterday and Today. (all sections contain an introduction and at least one document) Introduction by Mary Krane Derr Wangari Muta Maathai, globally acclaimed environmentalist, human rights campaigner, feminist, and 2004 Nobel Peace Prize recipient, was born in 1940 to a farming…
Isolating Women and Encouraging Jerks
by Rachel MacNair I recently received an email from a fellow Quaker in response to my emails on the availability of insights at prolifequakers.org. I think she made points that are important to address. I mainly focus on her statement: “Preventing a woman who needs one from having an abortion is in many cases…
What Just Happened!?! Becoming Consistent Life Despite Myself, Part 2
by Thad Crouch This is the second part; the first part is: What Just Happened!?! Becoming Consistent Life Despite Myself. Part 1 Early May, 1988. Interstate 65, Alabama A Greyhound bus passenger asked about my “Airborne Infantry HOOAH!” t-shirt. I proudly inform him, “I’m an army infantryman and just graduated airborne…
Comprehending Horror through Animation: The Art of the Anti-War Animated Movie
by John Whitehead Animation fascinates me. Like painters, animators can create images of stunning beauty. Being free from the limitations of human actors or physical locations, animators can also depart from strict realism and create images that are fantastical, metaphorical, or otherwise stylized. Animation’s stylization can allow animated films to deal with darker, more serious…
Act Before We Reach “Midnight”: The Need to Seek a Cease-Fire in Ukraine
by John Whitehead Introduction The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists recently announced that they had adjusted their “Doomsday Clock,” a symbolic measure of threats to humanity, to 90 seconds to “midnight”—that is, global catastrophe. This current status is the closest to midnight the Doomsday Clock has been in its 75-odd-year history. This dire prediction, the…