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Boycott Strategy: CVS & Walgreens / Rachel MacNair
Will for Life – Double Down / Tony Masalonis
Life-Affirming Doctors / Anonymous & Richard Stith
Activists, Beware: Burnout is a Very Real Danger / Rachel MacNair
Consistently Nonviolent Mutual Funds
Culture of Conscience: Would You Pay Taxes that Fund Abortions if Hyde and Helms were Repealed? / Thad Crouch
Beyond the Human – Plus Everyday Peace Actions / Rachel MacNair
Dialog
Tips on Dialogue / Rachel MacNair
Two Practical Dialogue Tips for Changing More Minds about Abortion / Josh Brahm
Dialog on Life Issues: Avoiding Some Obstacles to Communication / John Whitehead
Perspectives on the Consistent Life Ethic
In Defense of Detachment: The Different Approaches to Protecting Lives / John Whitehead
“Is One Life Issue More Important Than the Rest?”: A Question That Might Not Need an Answer / John Whitehead
Abortion and Other Issues of Life: Connecting the Dots / Fr. Jim Hewes
The Consistent Peace Ethic / Rachel MacNair
The Case for Abortion as the “Preeminent Priority” / Fr. Jim Hewes
Specialization or Generalization? The Many Ways of Following the Consistent Life Ethic / John Whitehead
What Does it Mean to be Inconsistent? / Julia Smucker
Political Homelessness is Better than a Wrong Political Home / Ms. Boomer-ang (pen name)
Win-Lose is a Mirage / Bill Samuel
The Mirror-Image Counterpart of the Selfish Society / Richard Stith
The Price of Violence: When Dehumanizing the Vulnerable Hurts One’s Own Causes / Julia Smucker
The Vital Need for Diversity / Sarah Terzo
Different Ways of Looking at Issues / Sarah Terzo
More than Double the Trouble: Another Way of Connecting [intersectionality] / Rachel MacNair
Seeking Peaceful Coexistence: The Varied Ways of Supporting a Consistent Life Ethic / John Whitehead
Pondering Justice / Carol Crossed
People Are So Much More Than Their Circumstances / Lisa Stiller
Spice Things Up with the Consistent Life Ethic / Carol Crossed
Answering Criticisms of the Consistent Life Ethic
Does the Consistent Life Ethic Water Down Life Issues? / Bill Samuel
Equal Concern for Each Human Being, Not for Each Human Issue / Richard Stith
Is Abortion Different from Other Violence? / Julia Smucker
Reflections from My Decades of Consistent Life Experience / Fr. Jim Hewes
Dynamics of Nonviolence
Boycott Strategy: CVS & Walgreens / Rachel MacNair
The Creativity of the Fore-closed Option / Rachel MacNair
Instead of Division, Schools of Thought / Rachel MacNair
The Parable of the Bridge / Carol Crossed
The Good Grandma / Bill Samuel
A New Pro-life Movement / Shane Claiborne
No Resort to Violence / Jim Kelly
To Know a Person is to Recognize a Human / Julia Smucker
Making a Nonviolent Revolution: Review of Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know / John Whitehead
Reaching Out Needs Compassion / Sarah Terzo
Dynamics of Violence
Where Violence Begins / Rachel MacNair
When “Choice” Itself Hurts the Quality of Life / Richard Stith
Misogyny vs. Patriarchy / Rachel MacNair
Oppressors of Women Scapegoat Fetuses to Preserve Patriarchy / Richard Stith
Abortion and War: Breaking through the Euphemism Barrier / Sarah Field
Hospital’s Attitude Adds to Couple’s Heartbreak / Sarah Terzo
The Death Penalty and Abortion: The Conservative/Liberal Straitjacket / Rachel MacNair
“I Became Like a Soldier Going to Battle”: Post-Abortion Trauma / Sarah Terzo
No Combat Experience, No Opinion: Parallels in Pro-bombing and Pro-choice Rhetoric / John Whitehead
Pro-lifers for Choice are Dangerous / Richard Stith
The Traumatized Lash Out / Rachel MacNair
Must We Resign Ourselves to Violence? / Julia Smucker
Dynamics of Social Movements
Boycott Strategy: CVS & Walgreens / Rachel MacNair
Converts or Heretics? / Rachel MacNair
Tribalism: A Major Obstacle for Building Bridges / Rachel MacNair
Promoting Peace at Home and Abroad: A Challenge for Peace Activists / John Whitehead
Thoughts on Issues
Abortion – Roe & Dobbs
Reflections on the Alito Draft Leak of May 2, 2022
Major Obstacle Removed! (June 24, 2022 Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade)
Post-Roe Life-Affirming Help / Rachel MacNair
Roe v. Wade: Legal Scholars Comment
Abortion
Abortion Facilitates Sex Abuse: Documentation / Rachel MacNair
“The Daily Show” Doesn’t Do Its Homework / Rachel MacNair
How Abortion is Useful for Rape Culture / Rachel MacNair
“Trust Landlords”: Pro-Choice Candidate Supports Eviction Rights / Richard Stith
Guns and Abortion: Extremists Resemble Each Other / Carol Crossed
If Men Could Get Pregnant / Rachel MacNair
What Do Men Have to Say on Abortion? / Rachel MacNair
Conscientious Objectors (objecting to participating in abortion)
Amnesty International’s Blind Spot / Julia Smucker
“Why Haven’t We Ended Abortion? / Rachel MacNair
Abortion: A Restorative Justice Response / Jim Hewes
A Daunting Disadvantage for the Pro-Life Side / Acyutananda
Asking Questions about Miscarriage and Abortion / Ms. Boomer-ang
Animal Rights
Beyond the Human – Plus Everyday Peace Actions / Rachel MacNair
My Personal Journey on Veganism, War, and Abortion / Frank Lane
Parallels of Veganism and Prolife-ism / Kristin Monahan
Suffering and Injustice Concern Us All / Vasu Murti
Death Penalty
Why Conservatives Should Oppose the Death Penalty / Destiny Herndon-de la Rosa
Racism and the Death Penalty / David Cruz-Uribe
Is the Death Penalty Unethical? / Hannah Cox
The Death Penalty and Abortion: The Conservative/Liberal Straitjacket / Rachel MacNair
Death Penalty Jurisprudence of Former Missouri Supreme Court Judge Laura Denvir Stith / Laura Denvir Stith
Death Penalty and other Killing: The Destructive Effect on Us / Jim Hewes
Open Letter to Governor Stitt: the Pro-life Case against the Death Penalty
Environmentalism and Contaminants
Stewardship and the Consistent Life Ethic / Tom Taylor
Climate Change and the Consistent Life Ethic: An Opportunity to Connect Issues / John Whitehead
Tear Gas and Miscarriages / Sarah Terzo
Lethal from the Start: Uranium Mining’s Danger to the Most Vulnerable / John Whitehead
Threats to the Unborn Beyond Abortion / Julia Smucker
Euthanasia (includes infanticide)
Figuring out Euthanasia: What Does it Really Mean? / Rachel MacNair
Grieving for John / Rachel MacNair
A Process of Tender Understanding and Loving Closure when Life Ends / Lois Kerschen
#SayHisName: The Medical Murder of Michael Hickson / Sophie Trist
How Euthanasia and Poverty Threaten the Disabled / Sarah Terzo
What’s Cruel for the Incarcerated is Cruel for the Terminally Ill / Jacqueline H. Abernathy
Will I be Treated the Same Way Now? / Anonymous
A Lawyer’s Turnaround on Baby Doe with Her Own Down Syndrome Baby / Sarah Terzo
Killing the Disabled / Anonymous (pen name Tara Zoe Roshe)
The Danger of Coerced Euthanasia: Questions to Ask
Guns
Guns and Abortion: Extremists Resemble Each Other / Carol Crossed
Threats to the Unborn Beyond Abortion / Julia Smucker
Human rights
Open Letter to Fellow Human Rights Activists / Richard Stith
Human Rights & the Right to Life: Reconsidering Conventional Human Rights Activism / John Whitehead
“I Gave Birth to Too Many Children”: Population Control and Repression in Xinjiang / John Whitehead
A Cold War Comes Home? Anti-Asian Racism in Light of US-China Hostility / John Whitehead
Elena in front of the Angels Unawares sculpture
Immigration
Would My Grandparents Have Died in the Pogroms? / Lisa Stiller
Peas of the Same Pod / Elena Muller Garcia
Threats to the Unborn Beyond Abortion / Julia Smucker
Pandemics
A Healing Metaphor: Pandemic as War / Julia Smucker
Post-pandemic: What Worries Me / Lois Kerschner
Sickness is the Health of the State? Civil Liberties and Conflict during a Pandemic / John Whitehead
“Millions Who Are Already Hanging by a Thread”: The Global Repercussions of Covid-19 / John Whitehead
Mask Up: It’s Pro-Life / Sophie Trist & Alex Christian Lucas
The Random Death Sentence: COVID in Prisons and Jails / Sarah Terzo
Masking Up but Not Shutting Up: Defending Freedom of Speech during a Pandemic / John Whitehead
Pandemics Related to Christmas / Rachel MacNair
Vaccinations and Tender Consciences / Rachel MacNair
Police Brutality
Voices on Police Brutality in the Aftermath of the Murder of George Floyd
Tear Gas and Miscarriages / Sarah Terzo
Police Brutality to the Preborn / Sarah Terzo
Police Brutality Against Protesters / Sarah Terzo
Threats to the Unborn Beyond Abortion / Julia Smucker
Poverty
Over 20 Million People Facing Starvation – And We Should Care! / Tony Magliano
How Euthanasia and Poverty Threaten the Disabled / Sarah Terzo
“Millions Who Are Already Hanging by a Thread”: The Global Repercussions of Covid-19 / John Whitehead
Social Programs to Help the Poor are Pro-life / Sarah Terzo
The Impact of Family Caps on Abortion / Sarah Terzo
Threats to the Unborn Beyond Abortion / Julia Smucker
Prisons
The Random Death Sentence: COVID in Prisons and Jails / Sarah Terzo
Racism
Historical Black Voices: Racism Kills
Racism Kills: Several Perspectives
Racism and the Death Penalty / David Cruz-Uribe
Voices on Police Brutality in the Aftermath of the Murder of George Floyd
The Civil War Conundrum, 150 Years Later / Rachel MacNair
Movies with Racism Themes: “Gosnell” and “The Hate U Give” / Rachel MacNair
“The Affairs of a Handful of Natives”: Nuclear Testing and Racism / John Whitehead
Police Brutality to the Preborn / Sarah Terzo
A Cold War Comes Home? Anti-Asian Racism in Light of US-China Hostility / John Whitehead
Sexual Violence
Abortion Facilitates Sex Abuse: Documentation / Rachel MacNair
The Message of “Never Rarely Sometimes Always”: Abortion Gets Sexual Predators Off the Hook / Rachel MacNair
How Abortion is Useful for Rape Culture / Rachel MacNair
A Pro-Life Feminist Critique of the “Rape and Incest Exception” / Rachel MacNair
Women’s Rights
Gendercide: Millions of “Missing” (Dead) Women
Abortion and Violence Against Pregnant Women / Martha Shuping, M.D.
The Myth of Sexual Autonomy / Julianne Wiley
How Abortion is Useful for Rape Culture / Rachel MacNair
“Shut Up and Enjoy it!”: Abortion Promoters who Sexually Pressure Women / Ms. Boomer-ang (pen name)
Re-Imaging Our Worth / Rosalyn Mitchell
Day of Horror & Hope
January 22, Day of Horror & Hope: Reflections 2022
Actions and Adventures in Large Groups
Violence Bolstered by Professional Contradictions (in the American Psychological Association) / Rachel MacNair
Mourning After & Hoping for the Future, We Call for a Consistent Life Texas! / Thad Crouch
My Day at the Democratic National Convention / Rob Arner
Adventures as a Delegate to the Democratic Party Convention / Lisa Stiller
A Tale of Two Cruises / Rachel MacNair
Progressive Prolifers at the Progressive Magazine 100th Anniversary Celebration / Mary Krane Derr
Unconnecting a Dot? (Campaign Nonviolence) / Rachel MacNair
Roe Anniversary Protests, 2019
An Example of Why the Peace Movement is in Deep Trouble / Rachel MacNair
Purple Sash Revolution / C.J. Williams
Intervention: What a Red Rose Rescue Reminds Us About Civil Disobedience in the Consistent Life Movement / Sonja Morin
Consistent Conferences
Zoom Conference: April 24, 2021
#Rehumanize2020: Experiences of a Virtual Conference (2020)
Rehumanize International – 6th Annual Conference (2019)
When Women Lead: The Pro-life Women’s Conference / C.J. Williams
Personal
Individual Encounters
Hospital’s Attitude Adds to Couple’s Heartbreak / Sarah Terzo
A Friendly Approach / Richard Stith
Defining Reproductive Justice: An Encounter / Julia Smucker
My Trip to Pakistan / Rachel MacNair
Intolerance Knows No Partisan Boundaries / Lisa Stiller
The Frustrations of Being a Consistent Life Activist / Lisa Stiller
The Adventures of Organizing as a Consistent Lifer / Lisa Stiller
Violence Workers (Present and Former)
Abortion Doctor Says: We are the Executioners / Sarah Terzo
“But I was Empty”: The Story of a Doctor Who Left Planned Parenthood / Sarah Terzo
The Traumatized Lash Out / Rachel MacNair
Personal Journeys (in alphabetical order by last name)
On Being a Consistent Chimera / Rob Arner
What Just Happened!?! Becoming Consistent Life Despite Myself. Part 1 / Thad Crouch
Peas of the Same Pod / Elena Muller Garcia
Angela Kennedy (1963-2020) / Katharine Gilchrist
Why Conservatives Should Oppose the Death Penalty / Destiny Herndon-de la Rosa
Coming to Peace and Living a Consistent Life After Military Service / Eve Dawn Kuha
My Personal Journey on Veganism, War, and Abortion / Frank Lane
Off the Fence and Taking My Stand on Abortion / Mary Liepold
Sharon Long: My Personal Pro-life Journey / Sharon Long
Grieving for John / Rachel MacNair
Becoming a Catholic Conscientious Objector / Tony Magliano
300 Roses / Rosalyn Mitchell
Walk On: Responding To Recent Situations in the Pro-Life Movement / Sonja Morin
Reconstruction of a Nation: Resilience in the Face of Terror / Aneeza Pervez of Pakistan
Nukes and the Pro-Life Christian: A Conservative Takes a Second Look at the Morality of Nuclear Weapons / Karen Swallow Prior
The Reynolds Family, the Nuclear Age and a Brave Wooden Boat / Jessica Renshaw
Supporting the Dignity of Every Life / Bill Samuel
Brown v. Board of Education and Me / Bill Samuel
Fifty Years of Protesting for Peace / Lisa Stiller
Life as a Pro-life Progressive / Lisa Stiller
Will I be Treated the Same Way Now? / Anonymous
In Their Own Voices (sets of quotations)
Abortion and People with Disabilities
Roe v. Wade: Legal Scholars Comment
Racism Kills: Several Perspectives
Historical Black Voices: Racism Kills
“An Inferno That Even the Mind of Dante Could Not Envision”: Martin Luther King on Nuclear Weapons
Voices on Police Brutality in the Aftermath of the Murder of George Floyd
Fratelli Tutti – Consistent-Life Excerpts
History
History of the Consistent Life Ethic
Consistent Life History: Being Across the Board / Jim Hewes
Common Ground / Jim Kelly
The History of Framing the Arguments / Jim Kelly
Activists Reminisce: An Oral History of Prolifers for Survival
Reminiscing on the Founding Meeting of the Consistent Life Network / Carol Crossed
The Adventures of Prolifers for Survival: Scorned by Mobilization for Survival / Carol Crossed
The Consistent Life Consensus in Ancient Christianity / Rob Arner
Ancient Roots of the Consistent Life Ethic: Greece / Mary Krane Derr
First Stirrings in Connecting the Life Issues / Carol Crossed
Violence
Abort or Face Discharge / Sarah Terzo
Hard Questions about the Response to Terrorism: Looking Back on September 11th / John Whitehead
The Civil War Conundrum, 150 Years Later / Rachel MacNair
“Remember Pearl Harbor—Keep ‘Em Dying”: War and Racism in the Pacific / John Whitehead
The Wages of War, Part 1: How Abortion Came to Japan / John Whitehead
Wages of War, Part 2: How Forced Sterilization Came to Japan / John Whitehead
How Ableism Led (and Leads) to Abortion / Sarah Terzo
Finding Common Ground on and Learning from World War II / John Whitehead
Five excerpts from the book Racism and Abortion by John Cavanaugh-O’Keefe:
1. Plato’s Words about Eugenics
2. The Jukes and Kallikaks “Studies”
Nonviolence Advocacy (outside the consistent life ethic)
The Reynolds Family, the Nuclear Age and a Brave Wooden Boat / Jessica Renshaw
The Real Meaning of Mother’s Day / Rob Arner
Violence Overcome
A Historical Success Story: Duels / Rachel MacNair
Our Experience with Overturning Terrible Court Decisions / Rachel MacNair
Would Nonviolence Work on the Nazis? / Rachel MacNair
East Germany’s Peaceful Revolution: Remembering the Berlin Wall’s Fall / John Whitehead
People Standing against Tanks: The Civil Resistance of August 1991 and Its Ambiguous Legacy / John Whitehead
Notable Individuals (in alphabetical order)
Women’s History Month: Jane Addams / Mary Krane Derr & others
Courageous Woman: Elizabeth Anscombe (1919-2001) / Julianne Wiley
Valentine Friends: Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass / Carol Crossed
Celebrating the Life of Daniel Berrigan
Abby Johnson Remembers Dan Berrigan
Dorothy Day and the Consistent Life Ethic: Rejecting Conventional Political Paradigms / Rob Arner
Remembering Gandhi at 150: The Power of Nonviolence and Respect for Life
Is it Too Late? 1971 Speech of Fannie Lou Hamer
Remembering Rep. Walter B. Jones, Jr. / Patrick O’Neill
Where Does Martin Luther King Jr. Fit Into the Consistent Life Ethic? / Rob Arner
Dr. Charlotte Denman Lozier (1844-1870): Restellism Exposed
How to Value People Like Mister Rogers / Andrew Hocking
The Redemptive Personalism of Saint Oscar Romero / Julia Smucker
Elizabeth Cady Stanton / Mary Krane Derr & Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Difference this Time: Prolife Heroism (Garrett Swasey, the pro-life police officer killed in shootings at the Colorado Planned Parenthood] / Rachel MacNair
Documents
Is it Too Late? 1971 Speech of Fannie Lou Hamer
The Poor Cry Out for Justice, and We Respond with Legalized Abortion / Graciela Olivarez
Graciela Olivarez
Fannie Lou Hamer
Government Policy
Administrative Policy
Children in Cages (compilation of statements on separation of US immigrant parents and children)
The Biden Administration and Russia: Steps to Build a More Stable Relationship / John Whitehead
Courts (outside Roe v. Wade & Dobbs v. Jackson, covered above under Thoughts on Issues)
June 29: Double Day of Death Dealing at the Supreme Court
Our Experience with Overturning Terrible Court Decisions / Rachel MacNair
Brown v. Board of Education and Me / Bill Samuel
Eugenics in Roe v. Wade / John Cavanaugh-O’Keefe
Election Politics
See our website: Peace and Life Referendums
Abortion on the Ballot / Lisa Stiller
Slavery: Removing the Exception / Rachel MacNair
What History Shows: The Consistent Life Ethic Works for Pro-life Referendums / Rachel MacNair
How Consistent-life Advocacy Would Benefit from Ranked-Choice Voting / Rachel MacNair
Elections 2020: Three Consistent-Life Approaches / Rachel MacNair
Pro-life Voting Strategy: A Problem without an Answer / John Whitehead
The Future of Fake Conservatism / Jim Kelly
My Difficulty in Voting: Identifying the Problem (about the American Solidarity Party) / Monica Sohler
Adventures as a Delegate to the Democratic Party Convention / Lisa Stiller
Inconsistency Sabotages the Peace Movement / Rachel MacNair
My Day at the Democratic National Convention / Rob Arner
Varieties of Hawk: Clinton v. Trump on Foreign Policy / John Whitehead
A President for Life and Peace? / Mary Meehan
Laws – Ireland
Maria Horan
Sinn Féin and the New Legacy of Violence / Maria Horan
The Referendum on Abortion in Ireland: The Violation of Rights / Maria Horan
Northern Ireland’s New Colonialism / Maria Horan
Ireland’s Votes for Violence: Sinn Féin and Abortion / Maria Horan
Ireland’s New Silence and Its 6,666 Victims / Maria Horan
Laws and Regulations
What Studies Show: Impact of Abortion Regulations / Rachel MacNair
Post-Roe Life-Affirming Help / Rachel MacNair
My Ideas for Post-Roe Legislation / Rachel MacNair
My Ideas for 2021 Legislation / Rachel MacNair
Should Abortions be Illegal? / Bill Samuel
Who the Law Targets / Rachel MacNair
Why the Hyde Amendment Helps Low-Income Women / Rachel MacNair
Removing Health Care Access is an Act of Violence / Lisa Stiller
A Pro-Life Feminist Critique of the “Rape and Incest Exception” / Rachel MacNair
Nuclear Weapons
Nukes and the Pro-Life Christian: A Conservative Takes a Second Look at the Morality of Nuclear Weapons / Karen Swallow Prior
Rejecting Mass Murder: Looking Back on Hiroshima and Nagasaki / John Whitehead
The Reynolds Family, the Nuclear Age and a Brave Wooden Boat / Jessica Renshaw
To Save Humanity: What I Learned at the “Two Minutes to Midnight” Conference / John Whitehead
Nuclear Disarmament as a Social Justice Issue / John Whitehead
one of the quarterly anti-nuclear vigils we do with a coalition of groups
“An Inferno That Even the Mind of Dante Could Not Envision”: Martin Luther King on Nuclear Weapons
“Everybody Else in the World Was Dead”: Hiroshima’s Legacy/ John Whitehead
The Danger That Faces Us All: Hiroshima and Nagasaki after 75 Years / John Whitehead
Catastrophe by Mistake: The Button and the Danger of Accidental Nuclear War / John Whitehead
A Global Effort to Protect Life: The UN Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons / John Whitehead
Lethal from the Start: Uranium Mining’s Danger to the Most Vulnerable / John Whitehead
Wasting Money on Instruments of Death: Nuclear Weapons in the 2022 Budget / John Whitehead
A Hidden Cost of the Ukraine War: How Russia’s Invasion Encourages the Spread of Nuclear Weapons / John Whitehead
The Persisting Threat of Nuclear Weapons: A Brief Primer / John Whitehead
Fallout at Home Base: Nuclear Testing within the United States / John Whitehead
Stepping Back from the Brink: The Cuban Missile Crisis and Lessons for Today / John Whitehead
War Policy (other than Nuclear Weapons, covered above)
Act Before We Reach “Midnight”: The Need to Seek a Cease-Fire in Ukraine / John Whitehead
The Need for Peacemakers: Two Urgent Dangers That Require a Response / John Whitehead
A Personal Reflection on a Just War / Jim Hewes
Buy the Time to Make Peace: Seeking a Cease-Fire in the Ukraine War / John Whitehead
Untying the Knot of War: Seek Negotiation, Not Escalation in Ukraine / John Whitehead
A Catastrophe Decades in the Making: The Russian Invasion of Ukraine /John Whitehead
Wars Cause Abortion / Rachel MacNair
Achieving Diplomatic Breakthroughs in the Past and Future: The “Opening to China” After 50 Years / John Whitehead
Not Your Pawns: A CLE Examination of the Russia-Ukraine Conflict / Sonja Morin
Seeing War’s Victims: The New York Times Investigation of Civilian Casualties in Iraq and Syria / John Whitehead
Encouraging Words That Require Action: Comments on the Geneva Summit / John Whitehead
The Civil War Conundrum, 150 Years Later / Rachel MacNair
Finding Common Ground on and Learning from World War II / John Whitehead
The Darkest Hour: “Glorifying” War? / Rachel MacNair
Would Nonviolence Work on the Nazis? / Rachel MacNair
Using Empathy during a New Cold War / John Whitehead
Making the Case for Peace to Conservatives / John Whitehead
Three Reasons for Opposing the US Bombing of Syria / John Whitehead
Planned Parenthood
See campaign website: Finding Alternatives to Planned Parenthood
Planned Parenthood Staff Revolt / Rachel MacNair
Does Planned Parenthood Reduce Abortions by Preventing Pregnancies? / Rachel MacNair
Finding Alternatives to Planned Parenthood / Rachel MacNair
Noncooperation with Planned Parenthood / Rachel MacNair
Defunding Planned Parenthood? / Rachel MacNair
Psychology & Sociology
Violence Bolstered by Professional Contradictions / Rachel MacNair
The Creativity of the Fore-closed Option / Rachel MacNair
Where Violence Begins / Rachel MacNair
Excerpt – Peace Psychology Perspectives on Abortion
Excerpt – Peace Psychology Perspectives on Abortion: Wars Cause Abortion
Excerpt – Peace Psychology Perspectives on Abortion: Child Abuse
Common Ground / Jim Kelly
Almost No One? How Survey Polls Work / Rachel MacNair
The Mind’s Drive for Consistency/ Rachel MacNair
Healing for the Perpetrators: The Psychological Damage from Different Types of Killing / Sarah Terzo
Does Socially-Approved Killing Increase Criminal Homicide? / Rachel MacNair
Explaining Belligerency / Rachel MacNair
Death Penalty and other Killing: The Destructive Effect on Us / Jim Hewes
Scientific Integrity Problems – Psychology / Rachel MacNair
Suicide Prevention and Other Kinds of Killing / Rachel MacNair
Post-Roe Stats: the Natural Experiment / Rachel MacNair
Literature and Art
Commentaries on Literature
It’s a Wonderful Movement / Rachel MacNair
Right-to-Life Issues in Contemporary Gay and Lesbian Literature / Jeff Koloze
Dickens (Christmas literature)
Recognizing Humanity: Orwell and the Consistent Life Ethic / John Whitehead
“Somewhere Else When the Trigger is Pulled”: Orwell and War / John Whitehead
Pandemics Related to Christmas / Rachel MacNair
December 28: The Day of the Massacre of the Innocents
Book Reviews
Book Review – Rehumanize: A Vision to Secure Human Rights for All / Lois Kerschen
Defenders of the Unborn: The Pro-life Movement Before Roe v. Wade / Carol Crossed (book by Daniel K. Williams)
The Tragedy of Carrie Buck: A Review of Imbeciles / Mary Lou Bennett (book by Adam Cohen)
How to Move from Theory to Practice: Reading “A Consistent Life” / John Whitehead (book by Mary Grace Coltharp & Aimee Murphy)
Resisting Throwaway Culture / Mary Lou Bennett
Catastrophe by Mistake: The Button and the Danger of Accidental Nuclear War / John Whitehead
A Way Beyond the Abortion Wars? / Bill Samuel (book by Charles C. Camosy)
Movie and Television Reviews
Hollywood Movie Insights (The Giver, The Whistleblower, and The Ides of March) / Rachel MacNair
Hollywood Movie Insights II (Never Look Away, The Report, and Dark Waters) / Rachel MacNair
Movies with Racism Themes: “Gosnell” and “The Hate U Give” / Rachel MacNair
The Darkest Hour: “Glorifying” War? / Rachel MacNair
A Consistent Day in the Neighborhood / Andrew Hocking
Jasmine, Aladdin, and the Power of Nonviolence / Rachel MacNair
The Message of “Never Rarely Sometimes Always”: Abortion Gets Sexual Predators Off the Hook / Rachel MacNair
Justice Littered with Injustice: Viewing Just Mercy in a Charged Moment / Julia Smucker
Three Nonviolent Lessons from Dr. Who / Andrew Hocking
How Black Panther Promotes a Consistent Life Ethic / Andrew Hocking
A War on the People: A Review of One Child Nation / John Whitehead
Mothers and Daughters / Mary Bennett
Poetry
“Seamless Garment” – Poem by Daniel Berrigan
Let us all agree on this one simple thing: It is not OK to kill people. / Robert Randall
What Do Men Have to Say on Abortion? (has three limericks) / Rachel MacNair
The Cure for Headache / Acyutananda
Art
Gendercide: Millions of “Missing” (Dead) Women
Behind and Beyond the Shout for Abortion: We need works of art that convey
the radical horror of abortion / Richard Stith
Media
Media Stories on Abortion Access / Julia Smucker and Rachel MacNair
Religion
Atheism
The Vital Need for Diversity / Sarah Terzo
Christianity
The Consistent Life Consensus in Ancient Christianity / Rob Arner
On Praying for the Military / Julia Smucker
The Early Christian Tradition / Rob Arner
Fratelli Tutti – Consistent-Life Excerpts
The Consistent Life Ethic: My Christian Perspective / Jim Hewes
My Christian CLE Perspective: Absolute Nonviolence Across the Issues / Julia Smucker
December 28: The Day of the Massacre of the Innocents
Hinduism
Abortion and War are the Karma for Killing Animals / Vasu Murti
The Consistent Life Ethic and Traditional Tantra / Acyutananda
Interfaith
Why the Interfaith Approach is Important / Rachel MacNair
Islam
Breaking Stereotypes in Fearful Times / John Whitehead
Paganism
Ancient Roots of the Consistent Life Ethic: Greece / Mary Krane Derr