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Recent Media Focus on Rape Prevention
BY MARY STROKA How do we eliminate rape? Several articles published today were about various ideas of methods on how to lower the...
Jun 5, 20131 min read
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Sticks and Stones . . . But Words Can Still Break You
BY NICKI JURINA This post is the first in a series on suicide and abuse prevention by Nicki Jurina, one of our newest social media...
Jun 4, 20134 min read
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What Is Euthanasia?
BY NATALIE GRONHOLM Euthanasia is a tough topic to talk about in today's society. Euthanasia, which is always murder, but sometimes also...
Jun 3, 20131 min read
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Can Peace Gain Economic Leverage?
BY NICHOLAS NEAL The cause for peace between Israelis and Palestinians might have more financial backing than we think. William Booth of...
Jun 1, 20131 min read
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Maxime's Intro: "Let's Talk about Torture"
BY MAXIME VILLENEUVE Good afternoon, LMJ readers! My name is Maxime Villeneuve and I've been tasked with covering the practice of...
May 31, 20132 min read
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Arias & Castro: Women & Men & the Death Penalty
BY AIMEE MURPHY "Juries are a little more reluctant to mete out the death penalty to a woman than a man," Andy Silverman, a law professor...
May 27, 20132 min read
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See Human Trafficking for What It Is
BY MARY STROKA "All throughout our country [the United States] there are these, mostly women, held in these vulnerable situations."...
May 23, 20131 min read
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Take the High Road, Pro-Lifers
BY NICHOLAS NEAL Late-term abortionist Kermit Gosnell is standing trial for eight counts of murder: seven of which are first-degree...
Apr 12, 20132 min read
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Canary in the Coalmine, 1.0: Las Mulas
BY ELIZABETH THOMSON As Dr. Mark Haas frequently says, women are the canary in the coalmine: the way their society treats them is the...
Apr 6, 20133 min read
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Pro-Life Democrats
Polls show Americans as fairly evenly divided between pro-life and pro-choice positions. Until recently, there was similar diversity in...
Apr 1, 20135 min read
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The Many Fridays
BY ELIZABETH THOMSON This week seems to be timely for a blog on the death penalty. After all, yesterday was the celebration of one of...
Mar 30, 20132 min read
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The Slave Ship
BY ELIZABETH THOMSON Before digging into women and CEL, it is worth digging into the presence of CEL activism over centuries. Slavery...
Mar 16, 20133 min read
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower Series, 3.0: Abortion & Candace
BY ELIZABETH THOMSON "We accept the love we think we deserve." Abortion is one of the biggest consistent ethic of life topics, and is...
Mar 9, 20133 min read
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower Series, 2.2: "We Accept the Love We Think We Deserve" &
BY ELIZABETH THOMSON "We accept the love we think we deserve." The first two posts about domestic abuse focused on Candace and Sam, two...
Mar 2, 20136 min read
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How I Came to Support the Consistent Life Ethic
BY STU METZLER My name is Stu Metzler and I've been doing some PR for Life Matters Journal. This weekend, I was inspired to share my...
Feb 27, 20133 min read
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Human Rights: What Are They, and How Do We Know Them When We See Them?
BY ELIZABETH THOMSON An important thing worth remembering is that protecting life is not solely a religious or political issue -- it is a...
Feb 23, 20135 min read
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower Series, 2.1: "We Accept the Love We Think We Deserve" &
BY ELIZABETH THOMSON "We accept the love we think we deserve." The last post featured domestic abuse and the effects it had on Charlie’s...
Feb 23, 20133 min read
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Life Matters Journal by the numbers
So we took a cue from our friends at Secular Pro-Life and thought we'd share a little bit about our relationship with YOU! We recently...
Feb 20, 20131 min read
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower Series, 2.0: "We Accept the Love We Think We Deserve" &
BY ELIZABETH THOMSON "We accept the love we think we deserve." Why do people stay in abusive relationships? From the outside, it seems...
Feb 17, 20137 min read
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower Series, 1.0: Michael's Suicide & the Worth of One
BY ELIZABETH THOMSON Stephen Chbosky's The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a 1990s coming-of-age novel that covers every aspect of human...
Feb 9, 20134 min read
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