SNAP Cuts? More Poverty, More Abortion
by Sarah Terzo The Supplemental Nutrition Assistant Program (SNAP), also known as food stamps, allows poor individuals and families to buy food they need. A proposal by the chair of the U.S. House Agricultural Committee has been made to cut these benefits drastically. Myths Vs. Reality Many conservatives claim programs like SNAP allow lazy people…
Successes We Never Know About
by Sarah Terzo Being an activist can be discouraging when we don’t seem to have an impact. But sometimes, victories happen – hearts and minds are changed, and lives are saved—but we never know it. A Fetal Model Saves a Life In a 2021 article in Newsweek, Jessica Riojas says that in 2017, as a…
Assisted Suicide is Inequality, Just Like All Legal Violence
by Jacqueline Abernathy As I write this, Governor John Carney has the fate of generations of citizens at his mercy should he sign HB 140 making Delaware the 12th U.S. state where assisted suicide is legal. I wrote a letter urging him to veto HB 140 which I documented from my scientific research as a…
Home of the Brave? A CLE Response to City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Johnson
by Sonja Morin (published July 2, 2024) Americans everywhere are preparing to celebrate the United States’ 248th anniversary of independence this Thursday. Many recall their own history of living in the U.S., or their families’ reasons for calling this land their home. The national anthem’s famous line “o’er the land of the free, and the…
Ramiro Gonzales
by Sarah Terzo (published June 25, 2024) Nearly twenty years ago, Ramiro Gonzales was convicted of the murder of Bridget Townsend and sentenced to die. His execution is set for June 26, 2024. A Childhood Full of Abuse, Loss, and Suffering Ramiro is an abortion survivor. His father abandoned his sixteen-year-old mother when she…
Apocalypse Imagined: The Urgent Message of Nuclear War: A Scenario
by John Whitehead Among the recent signs of renewed attention in the United States to the threat from nuclear weapons, perhaps the most important is the book Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen. Published earlier in 2024, the book was a New York Times best-seller for several weeks and the focus of a well-attended…
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…