#630 - Peace & Life: Referendum Videos, Immigrants, M*A*S*H - September 23, 2022
Referendums: New Videos Up Specific to the upcoming U.S. election November 8, we offer videos with peace, human rights, and disability...
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#629 - Peace & Life: 5 Reasons Why / Child Poverty Down! - September 16, 2022
Progressive and Pro-Life Daniel K. Williams, professor of history at the University of West Georgia and the author of Defenders of the...
#628 - Peace & Life: Referendums All Set - September 9, 2022
Referendums for November Now that we’re past Labor Day and start the traditional U.S. campaign season for election day November 8, here’s...
#627 - Peace & Life: Break Stereotypes/Embryos & Women/Gorbachev - September 2, 2022
What Abortion Opponents Favor The chart below was derived from the Nationscape Data Set. It shows some of the policies that have majority...
#626 - Peace & Life: Rest in Peace | Powerful Speech - August 26, 2022
Carl Kabat, Rest in Peace Father Kabat, OMI, an endorser of our consistent life ethic mission statement, joined Daniel Berrigan and six...
#625 - Peace & Life: Positive Protection Approach / Referendums - August 19, 2022
Positive Protection Approach When Colorado lost its referendum on banning late-term abortion in 2020, we added a suggestion to our Peace...
#624 - Peace & Life: Nukes, Pregnancy Fairness, Unions - August 12, 2022
Nuclear Protests Many of us attended commemorations of the first and hopefully last time nuclear weapons targeted human beings in...
#623 - Peace & Life: RIP Ron Sider, Tom Cornell / KS & PACT - August 5, 2022
Ron Sider, Rest in Peace Our member group Christians for Social Action has announced the death of its founder and our endorser, Ron...
#622 - Peace & Life: CL Kids/Nukes/Asserting Incompetence - July 29, 2022
CL Kids plans to have another Zoom meeting September 7th to share stories and welcome new members. If you have any connections to any...
#621 - Peace & Life: Events & Books & Natural Experiments - July 22, 2022
So Many Webinars The end of Roe brought an outburst of many thoughtful webinars about what it all means. We’re particularly pleased with...
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#622 - Peace & Life: CL Kids/Nukes/Asserting Incompetence - July 29, 2022
CL Kids plans to have another Zoom meeting September 7th to share stories and welcome new members. If you have any connections to any educators that you think would be interested, we ask you to put in their contact info into this Google Form so we can contact them, or forward the link to them to fill out for themselves. Anniversaries: Nuclear Blasts for Targeted Killing There should be local commemorations all around the world to observe the upcoming anniversaries of the bomb
#621 - Peace & Life: Events & Books & Natural Experiments - July 22, 2022
So Many Webinars The end of Roe brought an outburst of many thoughtful webinars about what it all means. We’re particularly pleased with one that had around 2,500 people registered that focused explicitly on the consistent life ethic, done by Georgetown University. Top, from left to right: Bishop Daniel Flores, Kim Daniels, Erika Bachiochi Bottom, from left to right: Kathleen Domingo, Justin Giboney, Mollie Wilson O’Reilly Wild Goose Festival Our annual trek to the Wild Goose
#620 - Peace & Life: Imagine a post-Roe World - July 15, 2022
Imagining an Abortion-Free World The McGrath Institute held a one-hour webinar virtually on July 5, 2022: Can We Imagine a World Without Abortion? The content is interesting to consistent-lifers and pro-life feminists. Erika Bachiochi: Getting back to the original feminist vision, and re-framing what we’re debating. John Bruchalski: Former abortion doctor now practicing a life-affirming approach to medicine. Charles Camosy: Focus on Intimate Partner Violence and poverty as m
#619 - Peace & Life: They Need to Hear from Us! - July 8, 2022
They Need to Hear from Us Several peace and justice groups are now using the occasion of the Dobbs decision to decry the decision and use the usual euphemisms for killing in-utero children. For example, see the Parliament of the World’s Religions and Green America (they both have contact info on linked page). These groups need to hear from those of us otherwise sympathetic to their goals, and from the consistent-life (same as consistent-peace) perspective, as well as the pro-
#618 - Peace & Life: Clinics Switching/Referendums/Life-Affirming Help - July 1, 2022
Post-Roe Fallout: Planned Parenthood Centers
Back in 2017, there were over 220 PP locations that didn’t do abortions, though of course they all referred for abortions. That was over a third of PP locations. But their numbers were going down as some closed and others started doing abortions, taking them out of the “referral-only” category. On the morning of June 24, before the announcement of the Dobbs decision, they were down to 160, just over a quarter of PP locati