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Early Feminists on Abortion: A Still-Relevant Herstory
BY MARY KRANE DERR Feminists of the 1960s and 1970s were hardly the first to address abortion. Their 19th- and early 20th-century...
Oct 12, 20126 min read


Rights to "Privacy" & "Self-Protection": Abortion & Gun Control
BY CAROL CROSSED Two of the most contentious issues this election year are gun owners' rights and abortion rights. In 2008, out of 4,600...
Oct 12, 20122 min read
Drawing Connections: Intimate Partner Violence, Poverty, and Abortion
BY JEN ROTH The consistent life ethic is traditionally seen as a way to draw connections among issues that do not seem related at first...
Oct 12, 20125 min read
The Consistent Life Ethic is Like Salt
BY CAROL CROSSED Consistent-Life Ethic is like salt. You don't need a whole lot to be effective. But it's essential to have it present...
Oct 12, 20121 min read


Ron Paul's Legacy
BY NICHOLAS NEAL Photo by Jayel Aheram; some rights reserved. This year will be Ron Paul's last in Congress. Adding together Ron Paul's...
Oct 12, 20125 min read


Operation Sharecraft
BY ANTHONY BEDOY Photo by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; some rights reserved. Lazy, obnoxious, and immature are just a few of the...
Oct 12, 20123 min read


Priority of Questions
BY NICHOLAS NEAL Photo by Paul Studios; some rights reserved. In the first issue of Life Matters Journal, we had an article arguing that...
Oct 12, 20124 min read


The "Light Footprint": Economy & Secrecy in Obama's Military Policies
BY JOHN WHITEHEAD Barack Obama is now more than three-and-a-half years into his presidency and at least a preliminary assessment of his...
Oct 12, 20126 min read


Comparing Romney & Obama on Life Issues
BY BENJAMIN WIRTZ Photo by Gwydion M Williams; some rights reserved. Mitt Romney and Barack Obama may seem to be different on many...
Oct 12, 20125 min read


True Life: A Pro-Life Teen
BY MADELINE BLOOMQUIST Photo courtesy of millicent-bystander on flickr; some rights reserved. As far back as I can remember, my parents...
Oct 12, 20123 min read


Contraception is Not Pro-Life
BY MARC BARNES The claim that the widespread promotion of contraception is pro-life is by no means a bad one. Mary Krane Derr, in her...
Oct 12, 20126 min read


Letter from the Editor: Where's Our Party?
Dear readers, supporters, and friends, I hope this first issue of Volume 2 finds you well! I can't believe we've been on this journey...
Oct 12, 20122 min read


The Oneness of Human Rights
BY CAROL CROSSED Image by Vectorpal on flickr; some rights reserved. "Seward Seminary: Rosetta, daughter of Frederick Douglass, was...
Oct 12, 20124 min read


Make it History: Students for a Fair Society at Franciscan University of Steubenville
BY KEITH MICHAEL ESTRADA What does it mean to be "pro-life"? This is a question I asked myself when I first dived into the student...
Oct 12, 20123 min read


Art, etc.: "It's Just a Clump of Cells"
BY JACQUELINE CARPENTIER The film was for a course that focused on exploring different methods and materials in making art. The final...
Jul 16, 20121 min read


Demographics in the Consistent Life Movement
BY NICHOLAS NEAL Legalized homicide takes many forms in America. Two examples are abortion and the death penalty. Ironically the...
Jul 16, 201211 min read


A No-Win Scenario for Consistent Lifers?
BY JOHN WHITEHEAD History has a way of challenging your beliefs. Past human experience, with all its complexity, ambiguity, hard cases,...
Jul 16, 20128 min read
On the Affordable Care Act Ruling
BY MARY STROKA The United States Supreme Court ruled June 28 that the Affordable Care Act the Obama administration developed and made a...
Jul 16, 20122 min read


Make it History: Teens for Life at Lutheran High School of St. Charles County
BY CATHERINE O'MARA Photo by Elvert Barnes; some rights reserved. A frigid rain falls over Washington, D.C. and drenches a young teenager...
Jul 16, 20124 min read


Pro-Life Medicine: How One Profession Could Change Abortion as Healthcare
BY CAROLINE PILGRIM Photo by George Ruiz; some rights reserved. I am in the training grounds of the front lines of the abortion holocaust....
Jul 16, 20123 min read
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