Wages of War, Part 2: How Forced Sterilization Came to Japan
by John Whitehead See Part 1: The Wages of War: How Abortion Came to Japan World War II’s devastation of Japan, and the politics of the post-war American occupation, led to the Japanese Diet [parliament] passing the Eugenic Protection Law 70 years ago, in 1948. The law legalized abortion in Japan, with millions of…
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
This is an excerpt from ProLife Feminism: Yesterday and Today. The introduction was written by Mary Krane Derr. Introduction Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) Observing her father’s upstate New York legal practice, young Elizabeth Cady Stanton resolved to overturn the laws denying women control over their economic and family lives, even their…
To Save Humanity: What I Learned at the “Two Minutes to Midnight” Conference
by John Whitehead The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists decided earlier this year the organization’s index of probable nuclear and other dangers facing humanity. Tensions between the United States and nations such as North Korea, Russia, and China, among other factors, prompted the Bulletin to move the Doomsday Clock’s hands to two minutes to midnight—“midnight”…
Gendercide: Millions of “Missing” (Dead) Women
The Gendercide Awareness Project held an art exhibit at the Parliament of the World’s Religions, November 1-7, 2018. Here are photos taken on site by the Consistent Life Network’s vice president, Rachel MacNair. The description is “a floor-to-ceiling maze that fills almost 2,000 square feet. As visitors pass through, the density increases and the passage…
My Personal Journey on Veganism, War, and Abortion
by Frank Lane I’ve been an ethical vegan for about 28 years and a vegetarian for 16 years before that. My passionate conviction came from a profound sense of the sacredness and wonder of my existence, the natural world, especially the unborn, animals, and trees. I was a registered conscientious objector to war and…
Movies with Racism Themes: “Gosnell” and “The Hate U Give”
by Rachel MacNair A note at the beginning of the movie Gosnell: The Trial of America’s Biggest Serial Killer lets us know it’s based entirely on court transcripts and eyewitness accounts, being as true to events as a movie can attempt. The Hate U Give, on the other hand, is fiction. Yet it’s clearly based…
How to Move from Theory to Practice: Reading “A Consistent Life”
by John Whitehead Let’s say you’ve succeeded in winning someone over to the consistent life ethic. This person now wants to defend human life against abortion, the death penalty, euthanasia, war, and the myriad other threats to life. Now the question arises, “What should I do to promote the consistent life ethic?” A valuable new…
The Impact of Abortion on Child Abuse
by Rachel MacNair Here’s the reasoning for an assertion that abortion availability helps reduce child abuse: Abuse can be caused when children were born unwanted and are therefore resented. There may be fewer births in those groups most likely to engage in child maltreatment. And here’s the reasoning to think abortion availability helps increase child…
The Redemptive Personalism of Saint Oscar Romero
by Julia Smucker On the day before he was killed, Oscar Romero, who on Sunday October 14 will be officially declared a saint in the Catholic Church, delivered an impassioned plea to members of the Salvadoran army: Brothers, you are a part of our own people. You are killing your own brother and sister campesinos,…
The Referendum on Abortion in Ireland: The Violation of Rights
by Maria Horan “The [Irish] State acknowledges the right to life of the unborn and, with due regard to the equal right to life of the mother, guarantees in its laws to respect, and, as far as practicable, by its laws to defend and vindicate that right.” Inserted into the Irish Constitution on the 7th…