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)

“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

Medicine’s Movement towards Abandonment / Jim Hewes

 

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

 

Child Welfare

Adoption and Foster Care / Jim Hewes

Book Excerpt: Preventing Child Abuse

Children in Cages (compilation of statements on separation of US immigrant parents and children)

 

Death Penalty

Not Caring about Guilt or Innocence: An Execution Case that Illustrates a Pattern  / Sarah Terzo

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

 

Disability Rights

Disability Rights – Babies, Women, Numbers / Rachel MacNair

Kate Cox and Stories of Trisonomy 18 / Sarah Terzo

Bigotry against Babies with Down Syndrome: International Experiences / Sarah Terzo

Bigotry against Babies with Down Syndrome / Sarah Terzo

A Lawyer’s Turnaround on Baby Doe with Her Own Down Syndrome Baby / Sarah Terzo

How Euthanasia and Poverty Threaten the Disabled / Sarah Terzo

Killing the Disabled / Anonymous (pen name Tara Zoe Roshe)

How Ableism Led (and Leads) to Abortion / Sarah Terzo

Abortion and People with Disabilities

Women with Disabilities Speak

 

Environmentalism and Contaminants

The Effects of Climate Change on Marginalized Communities Near and Far / Christina Yao Pelliccioni

The Dangers of Climate Change for the Pregnant and Pre-born / Christina Yao Pelliccioni

How Caring for the Earth Fits into the Consistent Life Ethic / Christina Yao Pelliccioni

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

Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate / Mary Krane Derr & others

Euthanasia (includes infanticide)

Figuring out Euthanasia: What Does it Really Mean? / Rachel MacNair

Assisted Suicide as the Next Roe v. Wade: Time to Pay Attention / Jacqueline H. Abernathy

Assisted Suicide is Inequality, Just Like All Legal Violence / Jacqueline H. Abernathy

Euthanasia by Poverty: Stories from Canada / Sarah Terzo

Testimony Opposing the End-of-Life Options Act / Tom Taylor

MAID in Despair / Lois Kerschen

Grieving for John / Rachel MacNair

The Danger of Coerced Euthanasia: Questions to Ask

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

Immigration

When Immigration Is a Life Issue / by Julia Smucker

Children in Cages

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

SNAP Cuts? More Poverty, More Abortion / Sarah Terzo

Home of the Brave? A CLE Response to City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Johnson / Sonia Morin

Social Programs to Help the Poor are Pro-life / Sarah Terzo

How Euthanasia and Poverty Threaten the Disabled / Sarah Terzo

Over 20 Million People Facing Starvation – And We Should Care! / Tony Magliano

“Millions Who Are Already Hanging by a Thread”: The Global Repercussions of Covid-19 / John Whitehead

The Impact of Family Caps on Abortion / Sarah Terzo

Threats to the Unborn Beyond Abortion / Julia Smucker

Prisons and Jails

The Random Death Sentence: COVID in Prisons and Jails / Sarah Terzo

 

Racism

Racism and Planned Parenthood: Documentation

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

Movie Review: Sound of Freedom / Rachel MacNair

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

Better Living (for men) Through Surgery (for women) / Leslie Keech

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

Maryland March for Life 2024 / Christina Yao Pelliccioni

A Tale of Two Cruises / Rachel MacNair

Progressive Prolifers at the Progressive Magazine 100th Anniversary Celebration / Mary Krane Derr

March for Life 2020

Roe Anniversary Protests, 2019

 

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

#Rehumanize 2021

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 Workers Speak Out / Sarah Terzo

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

Reaching Out Needs Compassion / Sarah Terzo

Healing for the Perpetrators: The Psychological Damage from Different Types of Killing / Sarah Terzo

Planned Parenthood Staff Revolt / 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

What Just Happened!?! Becoming Consistent Life Despite Myself, Part 2 / Thad Crouch

Common Sense Is Not So Common / Josephine Garnem

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 Supporters Connect Abortion to War

The Death Penalty and Abortion: Perspectives on Connections

Abortion and People with Disabilities

Roe v. Wade: Legal Scholars Comment

Women with Disabilities Speak

Racism Kills: Several Perspectives

Historical Black Voices: Racism Kills

When Linking Abortion with Other Violence Comes Naturally to Pro-lifers – Part 1: Connections Show Importance

When Linking Abortion with Other Violence Comes Naturally to Pro-lifers – Part 2: Consistency Strengthens the Case

“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 11^th / 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”

3. Sterilizing the “Unfit”

4. Post-World War II Eugenics

5. Eugenics in Roe v. Wade

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

The Christmas Truce of 1914

 

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

Nat Hentoff, Rest in Peace

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

 

 

 

Government Policy

Political Dynamics

The Deserving and Undeserving Poor vs. the Worthy and Unworthy of Life: How Both Major Political Parties Pick and Choose Who They Help and Whom They Kill / Jacqueline Abernathy

Inconsistency Sabotages the Peace Movement   / Rachel MacNair

Adventures as a Delegate to the Democratic Party Convention / Lisa Stiller

My Day at the Democratic National Convention / Rob Arner

 

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

The Future of Fake Conservatism / Jim Kelly

 

Courts (outside Roe v. Wade & Dobbs v. Jackson, covered above under Thoughts on Issues)

Our Experience with Overturning Terrible Court Decisions / Rachel MacNair

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

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

My Difficulty in Voting: Identifying the Problem (about the American Solidarity Party) / Monica Sohler

Summary: Peace and Life Referendums (results 2020)

Peace and Life Referendums (2019)Summ

Varieties of Hawk: Clinton v. Trump on Foreign Policy / John Whitehead

A President for Life and Peace? / Mary Meehan

 

Laws and Regulations – U.S. and general

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

Apocalypse Imagined: The Urgent Message of Nuclear War: A Scenario / John Whitehead

Are We Finally Waking Up? Signs of New Awareness of the Nuclear Threat. / John Whitehead

Sleepwalking toward Nuclear War: The Lessons of the Able Archer Scare

Movie Review: Oppenheimer / Rachel MacNair

The Logic of Escalation: Nuclear Threats in Belarus and South Korea / John Whitehead

Stepping Back from the Brink: The Cuban Missile Crisis and Lessons for Today / John Whitehead

Fallout at Home Base: Nuclear Testing within the United States / John Whitehead

The Persisting Threat of Nuclear Weapons: A Brief Primer / John Whitehead

Nuclear Disarmament as a Social Justice Issue / John Whitehead

Unholy Trinity: The Terrible Consequences of the First Nuclear Test / John Whitehead

A Hidden Cost of the Ukraine War: How Russia’s Invasion Encourages the Spread of Nuclear Weapons / John Whitehead

Wasting Money on Instruments of Death: Nuclear Weapons in the 2022 Budget / John Whitehead

Lethal from the Start: Uranium Mining’s Danger to the Most Vulnerable / John Whitehead

“The Affairs of a Handful of Natives”: Nuclear Testing and Racism / John Whitehead

A Global Effort to Protect Life: The UN Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons / John Whitehead

Catastrophe by Mistake: The Button and the Danger of Accidental Nuclear War  / John Whitehead

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

To Save Humanity: What I Learned at the “Two Minutes to Midnight” Conference / John Whitehead

 

“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

Rejecting Mass Murder: Looking Back on Hiroshima and Nagasaki / John Whitehead

 

War Policy (other than Nuclear Weapons, covered above)

The Problem of Selective Concern about Injustice / John Whitehead