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December 2019

December 04, 2019

The And Campaign offers a whole life approach

Say they: Christians, don’t settle for the conservative or progressive narrative about abortion. Watch these...

July 2019

July 18, 2019

The Use of the Unborn by the “Prolife” Lie Machine

This report was just released by the Office of the Inspector General and the photos...

July 10, 2019

Deacon Steve Greydanus Gave a Great Homily

He published it over at the Register. Here's a good chunk of it: Jesus’ Hard...

February 2019

February 09, 2019

What a Consistent Life Ethic Looks Like

All rhetoric that relates the unborn to other forms of human life under assault is...

February 19, 2018

Consistent Life Ethic Means Listening to Saints, Not Politicians

Charlie Camosy interviews Jessica Keating of the Office of Human Dignity and Life Initiatives in the...

February 15, 2018

The good news is that we belong to a Teaching Church

And that Church has already put it's very considerable brain to the question of gun...

January 2018

January 30, 2018

Yesterday the Senate Failed to Pass a Ban on Late Term Abortions…

...the sort of abortions where nobody has any doubt that the nervous system of the...

October 2017

October 26, 2017

A 10 year old girl with cerebral palsy…

...faces deportation for the crime of needing hospital care according to the super-duper prolife Trump...

October 11, 2017

When Elephants Fight, It is the Grass That Suffers

So the open secret that Harvey Weinstein is a vile swine and sex predator is...

October 11, 2017

The Interchangeability of Gun Cult and Abortion Rhetoric

People are baffled at what I meant by "Gun Cult". I do not mean "People...

September 2017

September 29, 2017

GOP Lucy and Prolife Charlie Brown

Nine million kids--a population larger than NYC--lose their CHIP health insurance tomorrow thanks to GOP...

September 21, 2017

Conversation with Somebody Claiming Their Focus is Only on Abortion

Commenting on Liesite News' recent ugly hatchet piece on Rebecca Bratten Weiss, claiming that she...

September 14, 2017

Pick One

The Church declares that unconditional respect for the right to life of every innocent person-from...

July 2017

July 17, 2017

The Great Contradiction of the Prolife Right

A consistent life ethic simply has to mean support for a social safety net for...

July 06, 2017

Cardinal Tobin increasingly impresses me…

...as somebody who both gets and lives the Church's consistent life ethic.

June 2017

June 28, 2017

What is the Whole Life Movement?

Here's a nice sketch: "A pro-life movement that ignores infant mortality rates, starvation, or the...

June 01, 2017

A Dem Prolifer asks…

"Will my party accept me?" Perez and similar draconian ideologues thought that a moment when...

May 2017

May 30, 2017

Can you be prolife and anti-war?

In Pittsburgh, it's not enough for people with a consistent life ethic that cherishes human...

May 10, 2017

If you want to cut benefits to a disabled child…

...stop--just stop--calling yourself "prolife". It turns the stomach. Being prolife means defending the sanctity and...

April 2017

April 27, 2017

12 Years Ago Terri Schiavo Was Killed by Thirst

Food and water were re-defined as "extraordinary care" and she was denied them and left...

April 26, 2017

Yesterday, we interviewed Aimee Christine Murphy…

...on Connecting the Dots and heard her powerful story about how a death threat from...

March 2017

March 21, 2017

Blind Spots

Had a conversation with an angry Fundamentalist atheist the other day. He was a former...

February 2017

February 27, 2017

The Latest Issue of Life Matters Journal

is here!

February 15, 2017

Libertarians and Pro-Choice Advocates: Peas in a Pod

Recently somebody posted this on FB: It sparked a fascinating conversation: Melody: Jesus was speaking...

February 04, 2017

How to defend the primacy of the battle against abortion…

...*without* turning the unborn into human shields for every disgusting right wing culture of death...

January 2017

January 27, 2017

Sean Hannity Makes the Case for Domestic Torture

Hannity acts as Minister of Propaganda for Trump Torture Regime What is sinister about this...

January 27, 2017

Not what Prolife Leadership looks like

Yep. The Mexico City reinstatement does not buy Trump the right to do evil to...

January 09, 2017

Slavery is the normative, room temperature state of fallen humanity

It exerts constant pressure on our greed to return and without firm pushback from the...

December 2016

December 10, 2016

Catholic 365 has a good piece on a Consistent Life Ethic

I mostly agree it and don't have much to add to it. My one quibble...

November 2016

November 05, 2016

A Consistent Prolife Ethic…

believes that merely being born is not the cutoff point for support for human life...

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