Women in Need of Complete Information on the Pill
Life Matters Journal is collaborating with The Guiding Project to bring you this regular column. April Jaure is the Blog Coordinator at...
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Oct 30, 20154 min
Influences on the Vulnerable: Abortion and Assisted Suicide Decisions Are Not So “Private”
What do assisted suicide and abortion have in common? So many things. Like the death of an individual at the hand of a physician. They...
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Oct 30, 201513 min
Our Identity Remains the Same Throughout Our Entire Life
I have been heavily involved in the pro-life movement for about five years now. I have done outreach with a number of pro-life groups,...
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Oct 30, 20157 min
"Many That Live Deserve Death" - But The Fellowship Suggests Taking Courage Instead of Tak
The legendary story of The Lord of the Rings begins with The Fellowship of the Ring, in which all of Hobbiton is preparing to celebrate...
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Oct 30, 201512 min
What's in it for the Born?
The Oxford English Dictionary defines “humanize” as 1) “to make more humane” and 2) “to give a human character to.” When we say,...
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Oct 30, 201512 min
Women & Girls in The Wizard of Oz
The International L. Frank Baum & All Things Oz Historical Foundation held a fundraiser in August 2014 in connection with the house in...
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Oct 30, 201510 min
A Red State Ends the Death Penalty: How Conservatives in Nebraska Came to Reject Capital Punishment
On May 27, Nebraska became the first red state since North Dakota in the 1970s to repeal the death penalty. As the country has shifted...
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Oct 30, 20157 min
We Are Beloved
As I write, the United States is angry, anxious, saddened, and split over the shootings of unarmed black men by white police officers in...
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Oct 30, 20154 min
Rejecting Mass Murder: Looking Back on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The United States devastated the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on, respectively, August 6th and 9th, 1945, in what were—to...
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Oct 30, 20155 min
A Pro-Life Analysis of Obergefell v. Hodges
On June 4, Ryan Bomberger of the Radiance Foundation called out LGBT rights leaders for their hypocritical support of abortion. In...
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Jun 9, 20154 min
“The Crowning Savagery of War”: A Mormon Condemnation of the Atom Bomb
Many beliefs and practices of early Mormonism such as polygamy, theo-democracy, the Order of Enoch, and the hope for Zion were profoundly...
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Jun 9, 201511 min
True Life: Choosing Life
Editor’s Note: In an article for the Daily Mail, Gillian Relf described her experience of caring for her 47-year-old son, Stephen, who...
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Jun 9, 20151 min
In Memoriam: Rose Evans (1928-2015)
Rose Evans, an advocate for the consistent ethic of life and contributor to Life Matters Journal, passed away on April 13 at the age of...
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Jun 9, 20156 min
Why the Campaign Against ISIS Must End: A Just War Analysis
The myriad atrocities committed by the organization known variously as the Islamic State, the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, or...
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Jun 9, 20154 min
Mercy as the Highest Form of Patriotism: Thoughts on the Tsarnaev Sentence
Krystle Marie Campbell, Lu Lingzi, and Martin William Richard, an 8-year-old boy, were killed by Tamerlan Tsarnaev, and his younger...
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Jun 9, 20156 min
But God, He Did It First!
In war, there is not always a clear-cut bad guy and good guy. People fight for all kinds of reasons. In this story, there is an obvious...
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Jun 9, 20157 min
Tricked: Documentary Film Shines Light on Human Trafficking in the U.S.
“I just knew that sex got me attention and attention got me something that I thought was close to love.” These are the words of Danielle,...
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Jun 9, 20153 min
Being Pregnant in College Just Got Easier
Students for Life: Pregnant on Campus Initiative The girl touches a growing bump under her violet-colored shirt and furrows her eyebrows....
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Jun 9, 20152 min
Physician-Assisted Suicide: Contrary to Human Dignity, Promises of Medicine
Brittany Maynard, an attractive and vivacious 29-year-old, spent the last few months of her life campaigning for the cause of “death with...
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Jun 9, 201516 min
Moral Intuition, Logic, and the Abortion Debate
Moral principles must be based on pre-logical moral intuitions and laws should be based on those moral principles. (Of course, to say...
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