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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Culture of Conscience: Would You Pay Taxes that Fund Abortions if Hyde and Helms were Repealed?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
Tips: 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
Spice Things Up with the Consistent Life Ethic / Carol Crossed
People Are So Much More Than Their Circumstances / Lisa Stiller
Pondering Justice / Carol Crossed
Seeking Peaceful Coexistence: The Varied Ways of Supporting a Consistent Life Ethic / John Whitehead
More than Double the Trouble: Another Way of Connecting [intersectionality] / Rachel MacNair
Different Ways of Looking at Issues / Sarah Terzo
The Vital Need for Diversity / Sarah Terzo
What Does it Mean to be Inconsistent? / Julia Smucker
Specialization or Generalization? The Many Ways of Following the Consistent Life Ethic / John Whitehead
The Case for Abortion as the “Preeminent Priority” / Fr. Jim Hewes
The Consistent Peace Ethic / Rachel MacNair
Abortion and Other Issues of Life: Connecting the Dots / Fr. Jim Hewes
“Is One Life Issue More Important Than the Rest?”: A Question That Might Not Need an Answer / John Whitehead
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
The Creativity of the Fore-closed Option / 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
Instead of Division, Schools of Thought / Rachel MacNair
Making a Nonviolent Revolution: Review of Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know / John Whitehead
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
Dynamics of Social Movements
Converts or Heretics? / Rachel MacNair
Tribalism: A Major Obstacle for Building Bridges / Rachel MacNair
Thoughts on Issues
Abortion
If Men Could Get Pregnant / Rachel MacNair
What Do Men Have to Say on Abortion? / Rachel MacNair
Guns and Abortion: Extremists Resemble Each Other / Carol Crossed
Amnesty International’s Blind Spot / Julia Smucker
“Why Haven’t We Ended Abortion? / Rachel MacNair
How Abortion is Useful for Rape Culture / Rachel MacNair
“Trust Landlords”: Pro-Choice Candidate Supports Eviction Rights / Richard Stith
A Daunting Disadvantage for the Pro-Life Side / Acyutananda
“The Daily Show” Doesn’t Do Its Homework / Rachel MacNair
Animal Rights
Suffering and Injustice Concern Us All / Vasu Murti
Parallels of Veganism and Prolife-ism / Kristin Monahan
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
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
Euthanasia (includes infanticide)
Figuring out Euthanasia: What Does it Really Mean? / Rachel MacNair
#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)
Guns
Guns and Abortion: Extremists Resemble Each Other / Carol Crossed
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
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
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
Prisons
The Random Death Sentence: COVID in Prisons and Jails / Sarah Terzo
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)
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
When Women Lead: The Pro-life Women’s Conference / C.J. Williams
Rehumanize International – 6th Annual Conference (2019)
#Rehumanize2020: Experiences of a Virtual Conference (2020)
Zoom Conference: April 24, 2021
Personal
Individual Encounters
The Adventures of Organizing as a Consistent Lifer / Lisa Stiller
The Frustrations of Being a Consistent Life Activist / Lisa Stiller
Intolerance Knows No Partisan Boundaries / Lisa Stiller
My Trip to Pakistan / Rachel MacNair
Defining Reproductive Justice: An Encounter / Julia Smucker
A Friendly Approach / Richard Stith
Hospital’s Attitude Adds to Couple’s Heartbreak / Sarah Terzo
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
Personal Journeys (in alphabetical order by last name)
On Being a Consistent Chimera / Rob Arner
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
300 Roses / Rosalyn Mitchell
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
Will I be Treated the Same Way Now? / Anonymous
In Their Own Voices (sets of quotations)
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
First Stirrings in Connecting the Life Issues / Carol Crossed
The Consistent Life Consensus in Ancient Christianity / Rob Arner
Ancient Roots of the Consistent Life Ethic: Greece / Mary Krane Derr
The Adventures of Prolifers for Survival: Scorned by Mobilization for Survival / Carol Crossed
Reminiscing on the Founding Meeting of the Consistent Life Network / Carol Crossed
Activists Reminisce: An Oral History of Prolifers for Survival
The History of Framing the Arguments / Jim Kelly
Common Ground / Jim Kelly
Consistent Life History: Being Across the Board / Jim Hewes
Violence
Rejecting Mass Murder: Looking Back on Hiroshima and Nagasaki / John Whitehead
Finding Common Ground on and Learning from World War II / John Whitehead
How Ableism Led (and Leads) to Abortion / Sarah Terzo
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
“Remember Pearl Harbor—Keep ‘Em Dying”: War and Racism in the Pacific / John Whitehead
The Civil War Conundrum, 150 Years Later / Rachel MacNair
Abort or Face Discharge / Sarah Terzo
Hard Questions about the Response to Terrorism: Looking Back on September 11th / 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
Our Experience with Overturning Terrible Court Decisions / Rachel MacNair
Eugenics in Roe v. Wade / John Cavanaugh-O’Keefe
Brown v. Board of Education and Me / Bill Samuel
June 29: Double Day of Death Dealing at the Supreme Court
Election Politics
See our website: Peace and Life Referendums
A President for Life and Peace? / Mary Meehan
Varieties of Hawk: Clinton v. Trump on Foreign Policy / John Whitehead
My Day at the Democratic National Convention / Rob Arner
Inconsistency Sabotages the Peace Movement / Rachel MacNair
Adventures as a Delegate to the Democratic Party Convention / Lisa Stiller
My Difficulty in Voting: Identifying the Problem (about the American Solidarity Party) / Monica Sohler
The Future of Fake Conservatism / Jim Kelly
Pro-life Voting Strategy: A Problem without an Answer / John Whitehead
How Consistent-life Advocacy Would Benefit from Ranked-Choice Voting / Rachel MacNair
Elections 2020: Three Consistent-Life Approaches / Rachel MacNair
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 – U.S.
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
A War on the People: A Review of One Child Nation / John Whitehead
Climate Change and the Consistent Life Ethic: An Opportunity to Connect Issues / John Whitehead
My Ideas for 2021 Legislation / 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
Racism
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
“The Affairs of a Handful of Natives”: Nuclear Testing and Racism / John Whitehead
War Policy (other than Nuclear Weapons, covered above)
Three Reasons for Opposing the US Bombing of Syria / John Whitehead
Wars Cause Abortion / Rachel MacNair
Making the Case for Peace to Conservatives / John Whitehead
Using Empathy during a New Cold War / John Whitehead
Would Nonviolence Work on the Nazis? / Rachel MacNair
The Darkest Hour: “Glorifying” War? / Rachel MacNair
Finding Common Ground on and Learning from World War II / Rachel MacNair
The Civil War Conundrum, 150 Years Later / Rachel MacNair
Encouraging Words That Require Action: Comments on the Geneva Summit / John Whitehead
Planned Parenthood
See campaign website: Finding Alternatives to Planned Parenthood
Defunding Planned Parenthood? / Rachel MacNair
Noncooperation with Planned Parenthood / Rachel MacNair
Finding Alternatives to Planned Parenthood / Rachel MacNair
Does Planned Parenthood Reduce Abortions by Preventing Pregnancies? / Rachel MacNair
Planned Parenthood Staff Revolt / 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
Literature
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
Book Reviews
A Way Beyond the Abortion Wars? / Bill Samuel (book by Charles C. Camosy)
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
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
Mothers and Daughters / Mary Bennett
Three Nonviolent Lessons from Dr. Who / Andrew 
Hocking
The Darkest Hour: “Glorifying” War? / Rachel MacNair
Movies with Racism Themes: “Gosnell” and “The Hate U Give” / Rachel MacNair
How Black Panther Promotes a Consistent Life Ethic / Andrew Hocking
Jasmine, Aladdin, and the Power of Nonviolence / Rachel MacNair
A War on the People: A Review of One Child Nation / John Whitehead
A Consistent Day in the Neighborhood / Andrew Hocking
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
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 Exhibits
Gendercide: Millions of “Missing” (Dead) Women
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
Hinduism
Abortion and War are the Karma for Killing Animals / Vasu Murti
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