The Effects of Climate Change on Marginalized Communities Near and Far
This is the third of three posts by this author on the environment; see Part 1 and Part 2. by Christina Yao Pelliccioni By now, you probably have gotten the idea that climate change produces real and tangible threats to human life and wellbeing. But where are these most being felt? According to the Natural…
Mistreatment of Incarcerated People: One Nonviolent Activist’s Experience and the Broader Problem
by Sarah Terzo Pro-life activist Heather Idoni, 59, who is awaiting sentencing for blocking entrances to abortion facilities, suffered a stroke at Northern Neck Regional Jail in West Virginia after being subjected to extended solitary confinement and other inhumane treatment. Information in this article comes from a May 9, 2024, email from the Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising…
The Dangers of Climate Change for the Pregnant and Pre-born
This is a follow-up to the author’s previous post, How Caring for the Earth Fits into the Consistent Life Ethic by Christina Yao Pelliccioni According to the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, everyone will be affected by climate change, but some people will be affected more than others. Children, pregnant women, older adults,…
Euthanasia by Poverty: Stories from Canada
by Sarah Terzo Canada’s Medical Aid in Dying law took effect in June 2016. The law allows those with disabilities or chronic illnesses to be killed by a doctor at their request. Many stories have come out about disabled people “choosing” euthanasia because of poverty or inability to get treatment. A Charity Worker Speaks…
Are We Finally Waking Up? Signs of New Awareness of the Nuclear Threat
by John Whitehead Nuclear weapons have threatened humanity’s survival for almost 80 years. During the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, the nuclear threat received substantial attention and inspired significant anti-nuclear activism, such as the June 1982 rally against nuclear weapons in New York City that drew roughly 1 million people….
Trump Sabotaging the Pro-Life Movement
The Consistent Life Network is a nonpartisan organization that encourages individual writers to express a variety of views, and the views expressed in its blog are the writers’ own. by Rachel MacNair Because (among other backtracking among Republicans recently) Donald Trump recently announced his position on abortion as being that it should be left to…
Coerced Abortion
by Sarah Terzo An Attempt to Ban Coerced Abortion A bill passed in Kansas would’ve made coerced abortion a crime, had it not been vetoed. Bill 2436 banned: Threatening to harm or physically restrain an individual or the creation or execution of any scheme, plan, or pattern intended to cause an individual to believe…
How Caring for the Earth Fits into the Consistent Life Ethic
by Christina Yao Pelliccioni I was in high school the first time I realized that what humans are doing to the environment is affecting the most vulnerable among us. I went to an environmental conference at another high school, willing to do anything I could to go on an extra field trip. Looking back on…
Resilient Rigidity
by Rachel MacNair Debate and Switch on a Comedy Show Jimmy Kimmel is a late-night comedian who frequently has innovative person-in-the-street interviews with questions or approaches others may not have thought of. Recently, he had a 4-minute segment where people known to be Trump supporters were asked what they thought of Joe Biden making a…