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(Note: articles prior to 2003 may refer to Consistent Life by our old name, the Seamless Garment Network.)
March 2003: Consistent Life calls on the United States to immediately cease its war on Iraq.
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        October, 2002:
Consistent Life calls for a nonviolent resolution to the current standoff between the United States and Iraq.
 
           
        On the September 11 attacks and the aftermath:  
         
           
        Since its inception, Consistent Life has been opposed to capital punishment:
In that spirit, we opposed the Federal executions of Timothy McVeigh and Juan Raul Garza.
 
           
        Consistent Life - On the Issues:  
        The partial-birth abortion ban  
        Assisted suicide  
        The treatment of children in society  
        The question of race  
        The arms race  
        The death penalty  
           
       

An open letter:
To Frances Kissling of Catholics for a Free Choice concerning her criticisms of Consistent Life.

 
           
        April 5, 1999:
Statement on the use of U.S. military force in Kosovo.
 
           
       

March 14, 1998:
Press release calling for an end to the UN/US economic sanctions and threats of military strikes against Iraq.

 
           
       
 
        Writings & Speeches by CL members/supporters
 
       

A Consistent Ethic of Life: An American-Catholic Dialogue (PDF) by Joseph Cardinal Bernardin. The famous "Seamless Garment" speech.

The Nightmares of Choice by Rachel MacNair.

My Personal Journey on Abortion by Rachel MacNair.

Beneath the Intractable Political Surface: How and Why the Terms of the Abortion Controversy Keep Change (PDF) by James R. Kelly. (Speech given June 4, 2010 at Dorothy Day Catholic Worker House, Washington, DC)

Finding Renewal: Why the pro-life movement should return to its roots by James R. Kelly, America Magazine, February 16, 2009.

If Our Leaders Had Seen 9/11 as a Crime Against Humanity by Lowell O. Erdahl.

The failure of war by Wendell Berry.

The Dalai Lama's letter to the President of the United States of America regarding the events of September 11.

Stith: Arguing with Pro-Choicers by Richard Stith.

Achieving Peace in the Abortion War by Rachel MacNair.

U.S. Shouldn't Fight Violence With Violence by Stephen Zunes.

1974 Catholic Peace Fellowship Statement on Abortion

Retrieving a consistent life ethic by David Gushee

Paths to the Consistent Life Ethic by David Gushee

 
       
 
           
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