Dying With Real Dignity
Dignity is popular these days. When people champion human rights, human dignity is usually not too far behind, and with good reason: our...
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- Jun 20, 2017
- 7 min
Remembering Nat Hentoff (1925-2017)
Defenders of life lost one of their most eloquent, frustrating, and idiosyncratic voices earlier this year when Nat Hentoff died on...
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- Jun 20, 2017
- 3 min
Suicide: “Choose When You Want to Go”
I remember sitting in one of my classes as an undergraduate and hearing my Management of Aging Services professor tell the story of an...
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- Apr 19, 2017
- 7 min
Why Focus on Abortion?
I’m not alone among pro-life advocates in that people sometimes ask me, “Why only abortion? Why do you advocate on this issue only?” When...
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- Apr 19, 2017
- 4 min
The Killing Game, Part Two
Continued from part one, which can be found in Life Matters Journal Volume 5, Issue 4. A few days after her meeting with The Seven, she...
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- Apr 19, 2017
- 6 min
A Coach's Perspective on Performance and Abortion
As a Collegiate Women's Soccer Coach, I enjoy recognizing principles within sport that can be applied to everyday life. I refer to these...
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- Apr 19, 2017
- 4 min
Electoral Backlash
In late November 2012, the Consistent Life Network’s newsletter, Peace & Life Connections, pointed out a counter-intuitive set of facts....
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- Apr 19, 2017
- 4 min
Culture of Convenience vs. Culture of Life
It’s sometimes amazing the intolerable things people are willing to tolerate for a little convenience, even when the fix is simple,...
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- Apr 19, 2017
- 1 min
We Are Stardust / Stars Up Close
way out on that distant horizon, city lights curve into stars and midnight’s sky drips down into city they say you and I are made from...
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- Apr 19, 2017
- 1 min
Protest
A chilly Saturday morning in Cleveland, standing outside a clinic next to my pastor saying the rosary in the bitter cold penetrating my...
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- Jan 25, 2017
- 5 min
Physician-Assisted Suicide and Therapeutic Ideation
Physician-assisted suicide proponents have been calling in favors to get in the media a lot recently, using sympathetic stories of...
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- Jan 25, 2017
- 7 min
Lengthening Limits to Liberty for Life: The Pursuit of Freedom of Conscience within the Military
Maria Santelli is the executive director of the Center on Conscience & War, a 76 year-old organization dedicated to extending and...
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- Jan 25, 2017
- 5 min
Election: 2016: No Conscientious Objection Allowed
There has been a lot of media attention recently on conscientious objection, mostly due to HR 4828, the Conscience Protection Act of...
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- Jan 25, 2017
- 8 min
The Killing Game: Part 1
It was during year 60 of The World Government that Pip was stolen away by the secret police. They were the same group that took her...
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- Jan 25, 2017
- 6 min
Can We Hyde War Taxes? Conscientious Objection to Military Taxation
by Thad Crouch — Financial self-help author Vicki Robin says “Money is something we choose to trade our life energy for” when we work. ...
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- Jan 25, 2017
- 7 min
Refusing to Practice Lethal Medicine: Conscientious Objection and Abortion
There has been a lot of media attention recently on conscientious objection (CO), mostly due to a bill currently being considered by the...
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- Nov 8, 2016
- 4 min
The Pro-Life Appeal to Agnosticism
In his 1989 essay Why Abortion is Immoral, Don Marquis notes that the arguments made by people on both sides of the abortion debate...
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- Nov 8, 2016
- 5 min
Therapies that Respect Life Rather Than Destroy It: The Different Types of Stem Cell Research
Stem cells are set apart from other types of cells primarily by two characteristics: self-renewal (the ability to divide indefinitely)...
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- Jul 21, 2016
- 9 min
Voting Matters: The Battle for the Soul of America
I don't think I know of a single person who would deny that voting matters. In our Democratic Republic, we have a chance to participate...
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- Apr 12, 2016
- 5 min
People Are More Than Their Circumstances
I recently had the wonderful opportunity to attend the Religious Education Congress, an annual gathering of about 40,000 Catholics who...
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