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Peripheral Matters: The "Kissing Cousins"
The consistent life ethic is spreading in the mind of the community. There is more and more discussion of it, even by pro-choice...
Jul 29, 20134 min read
It's a Fact: Conservatives are Concerned about the Death Penalty
When I told some of my friends that I would be going to the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) to help launch...
Jul 29, 20136 min read
Viewer and Victim
“The Scourged Back,” so dubbed by Kathleen Collins, is an image that pops up in the mind of most people when thinking of American...
Jul 29, 201316 min read
Where Motivations meet Morals
According to Eric Garris of the website AntiWar.Blog, Oklahoma state representative Paul Wesselhöft will be leading an anti-war rally on...
Jul 29, 20134 min read
The Ongoing Struggle over Guantanamo Bay
Detainees at the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been on hunger strike since early this year. The strike began in...
Jul 29, 20137 min read
The Human Cost of White House Word Games
BY NICHOLAS R. NEAL The Obama administration has once again shown its shockingly obvious use of wordplay. The New York Times reports...
Jul 27, 20133 min read
Check Out the U.S. Annual Report on Human Trafficking
BY MARY STROKA Image by Ira Gelb; Creative Commons licensing. The Annual Trafficking in Persons Report, which the U.S. State Department...
Jul 18, 20131 min read
Talking About Torture
BY MAXIME VILLENEUVE I've been posting quotes, pictures and articles on torture weekly on the Life Matters Journal Facebook page. Thanks...
Jul 18, 20132 min read
Egyptian Protests Shed Light on Rape Epidemic
BY MARY STROKA Photo by Gigi Ibrahim from Cairo, Egypt [CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons....
Jul 3, 20132 min read
Guilt and Shame versus Unhealthy Blame
BY NICKI JURINA Trigger warning: discussion of suicidal ideation and the account of a real suicide. All of us remember adolescence. ...
Jul 2, 20134 min read
What Is Embryonic Stem Cell Research?
BY NATALIE GRONHOLM Photo By John Alan Elson (http://www.3dham.com/microgallery/) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or...
Jun 30, 20132 min read
Solitary Confinement is Torture
BY MAXIME VILLENEUVE Photo by publik15; some rights reserved. According to the New York Times, there are well over 25,000 inmates in the...
Jun 27, 20132 min read
Facing a Common Christian Argument in Support of the Death Penalty
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...
Jun 10, 20133 min read
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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