Racism and Planned Parenthood: Stories from Employee Lawsuits
by Rachel MacNair I’ve been spending a lot of time going through and compiling lawsuits against Planned Parenthood, including a lot of employee grievances. In my previous post, Racism and Planned Parenthood: Documentation, I covered employees organizing together to oppose the racism they encountered. But to get more of a sense of the experience of…
Capturing Justice and Humanity: The Photography of Steve Schapiro
by John Whitehead During his career as a freelance photojournalist, Steve Schapiro (1934-2022) produced an extraordinary body of work. He captured notable people and events for magazines such as Life, Look, Newsweek, and Time, with some of his most significant photos chronicling the American Civil Rights Movement. A concern for social justice ran throughout Steve’s…
Pope Leo: Abolish the Death Penalty
The Consistent Life Network is a nonsectarian group and we pride ourselves on our religious/non-religious diversity. The pope is a prominent spokesperson for consistent-life themes, and does so again here. This is especially timely, since the Trump administration recently started pushing for new methods of execution, including firing squads. The pope’s opposition to Trump’s war…
Taking Abortion to the Next Level: Infanticide
by Jim Hewes Doe v. Bolton (a companion case to Roe v. Wade) significantly expanded the definition of the “health” exceptions. The ruling interpreted “health” very broadly, encompassing a woman’s overall well-being, not just physical danger. This broad interpretation enabled a woman to obtain an abortion at any point in her pregnancy, to protect her “health,”…
Is There a Post-Dobbs Back Alley? The Record on Women’s Abortion-Related Deaths
by Rachel MacNair I had just turned 14 when Roe v. Wade came down. I reacted positively – it would get rid of back-alley butchers. Soon I realized it actually put a back-alley butcher back in business. The problem wasn’t the legal nature of abortion, but the nature of abortion, period. There were arguments before…
Abortion Pill Reversal: One Woman’s Story
by Sarah Terzo At the 2026 March for Life, a woman named Sarah Hurm shared her story. Hurm took the abortion pill and saved her baby with abortion pill reversal. The Abortion Pill and Abortion Pill Reversal The abortion pill regimen comprises two medications: mifepristone and misoprostol. Mifepristone works to inhibit progesterone, a naturally occurring hormone…
The Strategic Value of the Consistent Life Ethic
Some thoughts from members of the Consistent Life Network Board of Directors Helping the Pro-Life Movement Richard Stith: There are many anti-abortion groups out there that break political stereotypes. I’m thinking of Secular Pro-Life, Feminists for Life, Democrats for Life, the Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising, the Rainbow Pro-Life Alliance, and more. They are all doing great…
Oscar-Nominated Short Documentaries 2026: War and Abortion
by Rachel MacNair Four of the short documentaries nominated for Oscars this year are quite worthwhile for consistent life education. (The fifth is a sweet artistic film about donkeys hanging around an observatory.) I saw them as a set in an arts theater before the ceremony. Children No More: Were and Are Gone This covers…
Abortion and Dependency
by Jim Hewes Imagine a toddler at a pool. Three lifeguards are present and on duty. There’s another person present at the pool who has been a lifeguard in the past but isn’t currently on duty. The toddler suddenly runs into the pool in the deep end and is at risk of drowning. The lifeguards…
Death-Hastening for Psychological Reasons: Dangers and Distractions
by Ms. Boomer-ang Author’s Note–This essay uses the term MAID, because it currently seems to be the most common. But it includes death-hastening done not only by medical people but also by the other professionals who might also be deputized to execute it. With the concept of staying alive until one’s body dies naturally under…