top of page


The Silence of the Left: The Horror of a Two-Party War Machine
I remember the day Obama was elected quite clearly in my mind. I had decided Monday evening to set up a “Cemetery of the Innocents” on my...
Nov 11, 20166 min read


Reflections on the Women's Peace Encampment: 30 Years Later
Mark Hare is not the kind of person who strikes you as being aware that he played more than a minor role in changing the world. When I...
Nov 19, 20136 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


Life Matters Journal by the numbers
So we took a cue from our friends at Secular Pro-Life and thought we'd share a little bit about our relationship with YOU! We recently...
Feb 20, 20131 min read


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


On "A Heart for Freedom"
BY CAROL CROSSED Chai Ling's book A Heart for Freedom (Tyndale House Publishers, 2011) is a clearly written treatise on Ling's journey...
Dec 20, 20112 min read


Sidestepping the Culture War: The Future of the Pro-Life Movement
BY KELSEY HAZZARD "We systematically vilified the Catholic Church and its 'socially backward ideas' and picked on the Catholic hierarchy...
Dec 20, 20117 min read


Respect for Life: The Consistent Life Ethic in Catholic Social Teaching
BY JULIA SMUCKER Life issues, in any form, have typically proven divisively controversial in general public discourse, and they have been...
Dec 20, 201115 min read
Quakers Need a Pro-Life Peace Testimony
BY RACHEL MacNAIR, PhD The Religious Society of Friends, more commonly known as the Quakers, was founded in the mid-1600s in England...
Dec 20, 20116 min read
bottom of page