BY NICKI JURINA As a Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling student, I have taken part in training in various techniques of...

BY MARY STROKA Human trafficking is an extensive and worldwide problem. Ohioan Theresa Flores, a survivor of human trafficking, said,...

BY NICHOLAS R. NEAL The Obama administration has once again shown its shockingly obvious use of wordplay. The New York Times reports...

BY MARY STROKA Image by Ira Gelb; Creative Commons licensing. The Annual Trafficking in Persons Report, which the U.S. State Department...

BY MAXIME VILLENEUVE I've been posting quotes, pictures and articles on torture weekly on the Life Matters Journal Facebook page. Thanks...

BY MARY STROKA Photo by Gigi Ibrahim from Cairo, Egypt [CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons....

BY NICKI JURINA Trigger warning: discussion of suicidal ideation and the account of a real suicide. All of us remember adolescence. ...

BY NATALIE GRONHOLM Photo By John Alan Elson (http://www.3dham.com/microgallery/) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or...

BY MAXIME VILLENEUVE Photo by publik15; some rights reserved. According to the New York Times, there are well over 25,000 inmates in the...

BY AIMEE MURPHY This'll be a brief little treatise. I don't have a whole lot of time before I leave for DC for a couple of days. But...

BY MARY STROKA How do we eliminate rape? Several articles published today were about various ideas of methods on how to lower the...

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...

BY NATALIE GRONHOLM Euthanasia is a tough topic to talk about in today's society. Euthanasia, which is always murder, but sometimes also...

BY NICHOLAS NEAL The cause for peace between Israelis and Palestinians might have more financial backing than we think. William Booth of...

BY MAXIME VILLENEUVE Good afternoon, LMJ readers! My name is Maxime Villeneuve and I've been tasked with covering the practice of...

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...

BY MARY STROKA "All throughout our country [the United States] there are these, mostly women, held in these vulnerable situations."...

BY NICHOLAS NEAL Late-term abortionist Kermit Gosnell is standing trial for eight counts of murder: seven of which are first-degree...

BY ELIZABETH THOMSON As Dr. Mark Haas frequently says, women are the canary in the coalmine: the way their society treats them is the...

Polls show Americans as fairly evenly divided between pro-life and pro-choice positions. Until recently, there was similar diversity in...