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 We encourage you to reproduce and distribute our brochure, fliers, etc. To receive e-mail alerts about actions you can take to promote the consistent life ethic, email CL Action Alerts. Get clothing, buttons, bumper stickers, magnets, mugs and cards promoting a consistent life ethic at the CL Online Store |  June 2008 Northern Spirit Radio in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, interviewed Rachel MacNair of Consistent Life and Friends for a Pro-Life Peace Testimony (FPPT), along with Stan Becker of Quaker Earthcare Witness, about abortion and the consistent life ethic. The interview was prompted by the series of ads Consistent Life and FPPT sponsored in Friends Journal, and the Letters to the Editor responding to them. The program dealt with the issue of whether or when an unborn child is human life, and how the issue of abortion relates to other life issues. You can listen to the program on the Web. December 10, 2007 Internationally known peace activist and scholar Gordon Zahn died on December 9, 2007 in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. Zahn was deeply committed to the consistent life ethic and was a Consistent Life endorser. Zahn was a World War II conscientious objector. He helped found Pax Christi USA, a Consistent Life member group. His best known book is probably In Solitary Witness, the story of Franz Jägerstätter, an Austrian peasant beheaded in 1943 for refusing to serve in the German army. In no small part due to Zahn's making this story known, Jaegerstaetter was beatified just this October by Pope Benedict XVI. For more about Zahn's life and work, see Let Us Now Praise Gordon Zahn. October 21, 2007
Ross S. Heckmann was elected to the Consistent Life Board at the October 21, 2007 Board Meeting. Ross is an attorney with his own practice in Arcadia, California. Ross has long been active in the pro-life movement. He has worked with pregnancy centers and to stop Planned Parenthood from starting a new facility in his area. He currently serves as President of both California Democrats for Life and Californians Against Planned Parenthood. More recently, Ross has also become active in peace work. He helped to start a monthly peace vigil in Monrovia, and is involved in the Foothills Peace Coalition. At the same Board meeting, incumbent Board members Carol Crossed, Rose Evans and Rachel MacNair were re-elected to new three-year terms. September, 2007
Glen Howard Stassen recently endorsed the Mission Statement of Consistent Life. Stassen is Lewis B. Smedes Professor of Christian Ethics at Fuller Theological Seminary, and a well-known Baptist theologian. Among the books he has written or edited are Just Peacemaking: Ten Practices for Abolishing War, Capital Punishment: A Reader, Just Peacemaking: Transforming Initiatives for Justice and Peace, Journey into Peacemaking, and Authentic Transformation: A New Vision of Christ and Culture (with John Howard Yoder and Diane Yeager). Stassen is a contributor to Sojourners Magazine. He also has written articles for many other publications, including the Journal of Religious Ethics, The Christian Century, Christianity and Crisis, Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, and Journal of Biblical Literature. For Stassen, the consistent life ethic is both the embodiment of Christian ethics and a personal journey: I am consistently pro-life. My son David is one witness. For my family, “pro-life” is personal. My wife caught rubella in the eighth week of her pregnancy. We decided not to terminate, to love and raise our baby. David is legally blind and severely handicapped; he also is a blessing to us and to the world. September, 2007 Consistent Life has placed a series of three ads in the Friends Journal, an independent publication serving the Society of Friends (Quakers). We hope this is just the start of a renewed campaign of ads in appropriate publications.
June 20, 2007 [Consistent Life President Bill Samuel was the lead-off speaker for the annual conference of Democrats for Life of America on June 20, 2007, which focused this year on the theme of The Consistent Life Ethic. This is the text of his remarks.] I thank Kristen for the opportunity to open this Conference. I appreciate Democrats for Life choosing the theme of the consistent life ethic for this year’s Conference. I am completely convinced that life issues are inherently related to each other. And I believe this includes institutional violence represented by such things as racism and exploitative economic systems as well as abortion, war and the death penalty. Respect for human life and dignity needs to be across the board, not selective. The means we use to an ostensible end are critical. One can not achieve a good end by using evil means. One can only justify violence if one assumes, whether explicitly or implicitly, that violence is redemptive. But it is not. Remember that World War I was the “war to end all wars.” The history of wars since reaffirms that violence produces more violence in an endless cycle unless societies are willing to learn from this history and change course. You can not solve problems in a marriage by beating your spouse. You don’t really address the problems of a pregnant woman in desperate circumstances by killing her unborn baby. You can’t defeat terrorism by using terrorist-like tactics against terrorists. You can’t show that killing is wrong by killing a murderer. Violence will never address the roots of social problems. Back in the 1960’s, H. Rap Brown got a lot of attention with his statement that “Violence is as American as apple pie.” His statement was absolutely correct. Unfortunately, he used that statement as a basis for those representing the oppressed using violence since the oppressors do. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. also understood the American habit of violence. But his response recognized that this needed to change and that means needed to be consistent with the desired ends. Therefore he used transformative nonviolence to achieve positive social change. Dr. King also understood the connections among issues, and refused to accept the criticism that his mission was civil rights, and he should not sully the issue by speaking out on such other life and dignity issues as poverty and war. Dr. King’s insistence on connecting the issues may have been key in his martyrdom. We should honor his legacy by insisting on a consistent, life-affirming approach in dealing with all social issues. The American history of addiction to violence includes many aspects. We have a two century history of wars of aggression and oppression, seeking to extend our territory through military conquest and repeatedly intervening with American troops to thwart the will of the people in other countries when we thought American economic interests were threatened. We engaged in genocide against native Americans, and treated those from Africa as mere property. We have been one of the major users of the death penalty, which the record of knowingly prosecuting innocent people indicates is at least as much ritual sacrifice as a misguided attempt at justice. We have a high abortion rate, and fewer restrictions on abortion than most other countries. Despite being one of the world’s wealthiest countries, we have an economic system which results in many being mired in the institutional violence of poverty. Yes, there are good things about American history and society as well. But we must confess where we have gone wrong and are continuing to do so, and have the courage to move in a different direction. The United States is effectively an empire, with literally hundreds of major military bases scattered all across the globe. History demonstrates that all empires fall, and unless the U.S. changes course and voluntarily gives up the drive for world domination, it will fall too. The bankruptcy of American politics is demonstrated by the fact that the Democratic Presidential candidates in the so-called “top tier” all favor unlimited abortions, a larger standing military force, a larger military budget, a readiness to project American military power, and the death penalty. They sound better on poverty, but they are beholden to monied interests for their campaign dollars, and their support of a bloated military budget means the funds to really address social problems will not be available. Former President Eisenhower was right when he said over a half century ago, Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. When you exclude entitlement programs, most of which have their own financing, you find that military spending is over half of the controllable portion of the United States budget. Further, the United States spends more on the military than all other nations combined. If we are to be truly pro-life, we must firmly reject the priority given to wars and preparations for wars. The call to us remains as it was to the Israelites centuries ago, This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live (Deuteronomy 30:19) We need a transformative politics that turns America from its addiction to violence to policies that affirm human life and dignity. We need to stop killing not only the unborn, but also our alleged enemies, along with even more civilians who are “collateral damage,” and criminal offenders. And we need to address the institutional violence represented by such social conditions as racism and poverty amidst plenty. Unfortunately, when public figures like Jesse Jackson and Dennis Kucinich who have stood for something at least close to the consistent life ethic decide to enter a Democratic Presidential race they generally feel that they can only get the funds needed to run a campaign by pandering to the “pro-choice” groups. Therefore they do a 180° turn on abortion. But experience shows that this replacement of principle with ambition has not brought political success for these politicians. I hope Democrats for Life can have the effect of strengthening the positions of politicians who favor life across the spectrum of issues. Personally, I have long dreamed that Tony Hall, who is being honored at the dinner tonight, would run for President. Consistent Life, which I serve as President, is a network of hundreds of organizations, including Democrats for Life, and many individuals. Our mission statement is: We are committed to the protection of life, which is threatened in today's world by war, abortion, poverty, racism, capital punishment and euthanasia. We believe that these issues are linked under a 'consistent ethic of life'. We challenge those working on all or some of these issues to maintain a cooperative spirit of peace, reconciliation, and respect in protecting the unprotected. Literature from Consistent Life is available in the Conference packet. We also sell a number of products with a variety of consistent life messages, like the T-shirt I am wearing.  I do want to note that Consistent Life is not a political organization, and does not endorse any political party or candidate. Our members have diverse views on the role of the political process in furthering the consistent life ethic, and my own comments about political candidates are personal ones. Thank you for listening to me. I look forward to the rest of the Conference and the dinner. January 27, 2007  CL President Bill Samuel & CL Intern Corey Prachniak hold CL banner before 2007 March for Life Photo by Father Bernard A. Survil The Consistent Life banner was carried at both the January 22 March for Life and the January 27 March on Washington against the Iraq War. At both events, we made contact with other marchers who expressed appreciation for us making the connection among the life issues. December 28, 2006 Julie Shockley resigned as Secretary-Treasurer of Consistent Life earlier this month. The Board appreciates all she did while serving as an officer of Consistent Life. She took on the position during a time of transitions in the organization which made it a real challenge to keep the organization's finances in good order. During her time as Treasurer, she unified the records that had been kept by different people in the recent past, and made sure we were current with all legal obligations. Rose Evans, who had been Secretary prior to Julie assuming the position, stepped in to act as Secretary again in the interim. The duties of the Treasurer are falling upon President Bill Samuel until a new Treasurer is found. The Treasurer of Consistent Life maintains all financial records of the organization, receives and records contributions, disburses funds, maintains Consistent Life banking accounts, and files financial-related forms. As an officer of Consistent Life, the Treasurer also serves on the Executive Committee. Consistent Life urgently appeals to any supporters with the skills to perform this work who can make time available for it to offer their services. For more information and/or to offer your services, contact President Bill Samuel and/or Acting Secretary Rose Evans. Also let us know if you are aware of someone else suitable who might be invited to consider the position. While less urgent, Rose Evans would also like someone else to step into the Secretary position for the long term. The Secretary keeps official minutes and other records of the organization, maintains a record of the terms of Board members, prepares (in conjunction with the President) agendas for Board meetings, and serves on the Executive Committee. For more information and/or to offer your services, contact Acting Secretary Rose Evans. Consistent Life is a volunteer organization. Officers and Board members serve without monetary compensation. Out-of-pocket expenses are reimbursed by the organization. The positions of Secretary and Treasurer may be combined if the same person is willing to take on both roles. October 30, 2006 Some Midwestern members of Amnesty International USA are concerned about the position AIUSA took last April favoring the “decriminalization” of abortion. However, Amnesty's Midwest Regional Conference in Chicago, which ended on Sunday, refused to reconsider or even to discuss that position -- or the draft policies implementing it. At the international level, Amnesty has drafted but not yet adopted a position endorsing and implementing decriminalization. However, according to conference participant Richard Stith, “If events in Chicago are typical, AI adoption of decriminalization as a world-wide goal seems almost inevitable because many objections to such a position among its non-member supporters, its members and even its leaders are not reaching the Amnesty higher-ups who will make the final decision.” Stith is a law professor from Indiana who is a member both of AI and of Consistent Life, a group he described as “opposing all violence, including war, the death penalty and abortion.” The group had a large display of its “non-violence” literature opposite the AI registration table during most of the conference. Former AIUSA Board member Angie Hougas and official sponsor Carolyn Coglianese were among the personally pro-choice conference registrants who supported a resolution asking that Amnesty International remain neutral on “universal legalization of abortion as an inviolable human right.” Their resolution expressed concern that there could be “possible losses of membership” and that “our death penalty abolition efforts could suffer, as some of our most crucial allies oppose executions as part of a comprehensive position in support of the right to life.” In the earlier West Regional Conference, the same resolution had lost by only one vote, with allegations of voting irregularities. In Chicago the neutrality resolution was voted down by a small “working group” immediately after it was introduced Saturday afternoon, without substantive debate, and without time for voters to read it through first. Many conference attendees did not know that the resolution would be proposed or that they could vote on it by attending the working group meeting. Amnesty's International Executive Committee has drafted a policy statement on abortion for possible adoption in 2007 and has asked for feedback. The dense, 14-page “Explanatory Notes” accompanying the IEC draft policy explain its implications. For example, the policy goal of decriminalization includes both sex-selection abortions and abortions for “potential disability status of the fetus.” Nevertheless, the questionnaire accompanying the policy does not ask members whether they agree with the decriminalization of such abortions: Those surveyed are asked only whether they prefer “decriminalization in all cases” or only “decriminalization except for gestational limits.” Meeting with AIUSA national executives Saturday morning, regional Amnesty leaders expressed chagrin that they had not previously been informed of the existence of the survey, though its deadline is December 1. A two-hour “Policy Discussion” of “Sexual and Reproductive Rights” was scheduled for late Saturday, but its accompanying description explained that “participants will not be debating the potential policy/policies,” but rather “will focus on AI's discussion process to date and next steps.” Dori Dinsmore, head of the Midwest Regional Office, directed the “policy discussion.” Although open to comments and objections, she did not distribute or explain in any detail the draft policies in question, but referred listeners to the members-only website where the policies and the survey could be accessed. The meeting ended after an hour because participants had no more questions about the process.
August 11, 2006 Sister Helen Prejean, CSJ, author of Dead Man Walking and an endorser of the Consistent Life mission statement, withdrew her name from the endorsement of a New York Times ad urging the removal of George W. Bush from the Presidency. She had signed the ad based on a draft, and was not shown the final version before publication. Sister Helen's endorsement of the draft ad was based on opposition to President Bush's pursuit of war in Iraq, approval of torture, zealous promotion of imprisonment and executions, and fiscal policies causing an increase in poverty. Her statement withdrawing her endorsement said in part (emphasis in original): There is, however, one issue addressed in the ad that I cannot endorse, which if I had seen the final version of the ad would have led me to withhold my signature. The statement reads: “Your government is moving to deny women here and all over the world the right to birth control and abortion.” The life issues involved in the beginning of life are exceedingly complex. My stance on abortion is a matter of public record. I stand morally opposed to killing: war, executions, killing of the old and demented, the killing of children, unborn and born. As I have stated publicly many times, I stand squarely within the framework of “the seamless garment” ethic of life. I believe that all of life is sacred and must be protected, especially in the vulnerable stages at the beginning of life and its end. The full statement can be read at Sister Helen Prejean's Web site. Consistent Life thanks Sister Helen for her clear statement on the consistent ethic of life. August 2, 2006
Consistent Life is pleased to announce that Randall Balmer has endorsed its Mission Statement. Dr. Balmer is Ann Whitney Olin Professor of American Religion at Barnard College, Columbia University. Dr. Balmer has published widely both in academic and scholarly journals, and in the popular press. He is Editor-at-Large for Christianity Today. He has written or co-written ten published books, including recent works The Encyclopedia of Evangelicalism and Religion in Twentieth Century America. Dr. Balmer has also written three scripts for documentaries shown on PBS. He was nominated for an Emmy for his work on Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: A Journey into the Evangelical Subculture in America. In his article “Jesus Is Not a Republican” in the June 23, 2006 issue of The Chronicle Review, Dr. Balmer argued that evangelicals should expand their concern for human life:Evangelicals opposed to abortion would be well advised to follow some Catholic teaching a bit further on this issue. As early as 1984, Joseph Cardinal Bernardin, the late archbishop of Chicago, talked about opposition to abortion as part of a “seamless garment” that included other “life issues”: care for the poor and feeding the hungry, advocacy for human rights, and unequivocal opposition to capital punishment. Surely the adoption of what Bernardin called a “consistent ethic of life” carries with it greater moral authority than opposition to abortion alone. July 23, 2006
Consistent Life is pleased to announce that Rachel Muha has agreed to join its Board. She describes some of her commitment to the cause of life and her personal life experiences below: I remember being a young journalism student and using the death penalty as the subject of an assignment. I argued against it in my paper and most of the students in the class were for it. I came from a small Catholic high school where everyone seemed to think the same and was now a student at Ohio State where each class was bigger than my whole high school so it was an introduction into the real world and into the work I didn't know I would be doing for the rest of my life. May 15, 2006 The Board of Consistent Life has issued an open letter to Amnesty International (AI) regarding AI's consideration of policy positions regarding abortion. AI's 2005 International Council Meeting decided to begin consideration of policies on three specific issues:
Consistent Life supported the first point, but asked AI to reflect on how much the other two points contradict it. We noted, “What you are basically saying is that governments have a responsibility to clean up after botched abortions, but should have no ability to prevent those botched abortions. They should simply allow the harm to occur, and then deal with it.” We asked that AI act consistently with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of the Child, which states that every child “needs special safeguards and care, including legal protection, before as well as after birth.” We also noted that AI's points do not cover a woman's right to aftercare for the trauma which often follows having an abortion. Nor do they cover coerced abortion, or sex-selection abortions. We commented, “In these cases no one could argue whether abortion itself is clearly violence against women, and no policy could pretend to oppose violence against women while remaining silent on these points.” We observed that perpetration-induced traumatic stress (PITS) affects all those who kill other human beings, including those who perform abortions as well as those who kill in war, in police actions or in executions. The effects of PITS lead to botched abortions, as is demonstrated by a number of cases involving legal abortions. We also observed that sincere advocates of certain life positions may sabotage their own goals by being inconsistent. For AI, its principled position against the death penalty, in which we stand in solidarity with them, “may be discredited if they advocate laws that allow imposition of the death penalty on innocent children without due process.” Most of the Consistent Life Board members have also written personally to AI. We have previously called (see our April 28 Action Alert) for people to contact AI on this issue. AI has indicated that the comment period ends on May 17. March 6, 2006
Consistent Life is pleased to announce that Linda Naranjo-Huebl has agreed to join its Board. Linda Naranjo-Huebl grew up in a large family in northwest Denver, Colorado (the "North Side"). She became involved with Denver's first independent crisis pregnancy center in 1981, and over the years she and her family hosted over fifty young pregnant women in their home, providing a supporting environment in which they could make plans for the future. In 1982 she joined Feminists for Life and worked with its Denver chapter over the years as a writer and speaker at colleges and other public forums and with various prolife coalitions promoting prolife and prowoman education and legislation initiatives. In 1995 she co-edited, along with Rachel MacNair and Mary Krane Derr, a collection of prolife feminist writings, Prolife Feminism: Yesterday and Today, which has recently been expanded and reissued. She serves on the board of directors of the Feminism and Nonviolence Studies Association and conducts research and teaching in the areas of women's studies, American ethnic literatures and history, and peace issues. In 2001, she obtained her Ph.D. in English, specializing in Women's and American Ethnic Literature, at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Linda continues her scholarship and teaching as a Professor of English at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She also remains close to her extended family as a part-time resident of Denver, Colorado. February 28, 2006 Today the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled in Scheidler v. National Organization of Women that Federal laws against racketeering and extortion can not be used to prevent demonstrations against abortions. It was the third time the Court had ruled on the case, which NOW initiated in 1986. Consistent Life has organized a number of national organizations and peace and justice leaders to sign an amicus brief to the Court each time. On this third trip to the Court, two major labor unions also signed on to the Consistent Life brief. Groups which are not necessarily pro-life on abortion joined the brief because they could see that any group demonstrating for a cause would potentially be at risk if protest actions were treated as if they were racketeering and extortion. Because Consistent Life stands for six major life issues not only for the lives of the unborn, it was particularly well placed to bring a diverse coalition of groups together to urge the Court to protect the rights of Americans to express their views on any cause in public demonstrations. With regard to filing our amicus brief this last time, Consistent Life Board member Carol Crossed, who has spearheaded our efforts in this case, said, “Enough is enough. Why drag this on and on at enormous cost to people who have the courage to dissent?” Apparently the Court agreed with her. February 21, 2006 Scott Schaeffer-Duffy has accepted the Consistent Life Board's invitation for him to join the Board. He has the following to say about himself and his work for the consistent life ethic: I am a father of four, married to free-lance journalist Claire Schaeffer-Duffy. We have lived and worked together in the Catholic Worker movement since 1982, first in Washington, DC and since 1986 in Worcester, Massachusetts. I am a graduate of the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester where I received a degree in religious studies. In 1976, while a student, I joined a group called Students for Life. We opposed all violence including war, abortion, and capital punishment. We became the strongest anti-war group on campus, opposing the draft, Trident Submarine, and ROTC. We also addressed abortion in writing and by attending the annual protest in Washington, DC where we often felt out of place with some of the other attendees. Since graduating, I have been very active in peacework here in the United States and also in various places of conflict around the world including Bosnia, Nicaragua, Iraq, Israel/Palestine, Darfur, Sudan, and Vieques, Puerto Rico. I have been involved in numerous public vigils, protest, marches, fasts, and acts of nonviolent civil disobedience primarily against war, but also against abortion. I served three days in jail for holding a sign that read ban the bomb, not the baby during an Operation Rescue protest in Rhode Island. My wife and I have tried on several occassions to encourage others in the peace movement to consider opposition to abortion as a reasonable part of a nonviolent philosophy. We do this oftentimes through our newsletter, The Catholic Radical, which has been published six times a year since 1986. Every Good Friday, for at least 15 years, I have helped organize a Stations of the Cross procession in Worcester beginning at a Planned Parenthood Clinic and going to other locations to raise other issues like war, racism, sexism, violence against women, the death penalty, and environmental harm. With the Seamless Garment Network, we produced a film about those Stations of the Cross. In January, 2006, I helped organize a march from the Planned Parenthood clinic to a US Marine Corps Reserve Station to encourage peacemakers and pro-lifers to embrace both issues. We carried a large banner with said NO WAR, NO ABORTION, Unite Against Violence! We stirred up a great deal of passionate response from peace activists who support abortion rights. January 29, 2006 At its January 29, 2006 meeting, the Consistent Life Board elected Julie Shockley to the Board, and chose her as Secretary-Treasurer. This filled the vacant position of Treasurer, while allowing Rose Evans to step down as Secretary. Rose asked to be replaced in this position due to failing health, but will remain on the Board. Julie Shockley has a personal ministry called Abortion Hurts. She is a psychologist by training, and has also worked as an accountant. January 23, 2006  September 20, 2005 September 1, 2005 The Consistent Life Executive Committee named Paul Magno to serve as Interim National Coordinator of Consistent Life, starting September 1, 2005. He has a mandate to sharpen our program, outreach and fundraising. His appointment is for six months as a half-time position, and the organization will evaluate how to proceed after that. Magno had been involved in various ways supporting Consistent Life and its predecessor organizations for many years. Most recently, he had been doing development work for Consistent Life. In addition to his part-time position with Consistent Life, Magno also holds part-time positions with the Washington Peace Center and Rights Action. Magno had previously served for more than seven years as Director of the Father McKenna Center, a parish-based social service center in downtown Washington serving the homeless and low-income. Magno has been active in the Catholic Worker movement, and has also been involved in organizations such as Pax Christi, the War Resisters League, and the Fellowship of Reconciliation. You can contact Paul Magno at June 10, 2005 Brian D. McLaren, Founding Pastor of Cedar Ridge Community Church in Spencerville, Maryland, signed the Mission Statement of Consistent Life. Brian is internationally known as a leader of what has come to be known as the "Emergent Church" or "Emerging Church" movement. He was named in the February 7, 2005 Time magazine as one of the 25 most influential evangelicals in America. He is the author of several books, including A New Kind of Christian and A Generous Orthodoxy. Brian McLaren also made this additional statement: Who we are and what we do cannot be separated. If we have a casual attitude toward the sacredness of creation in one area - say, in being careless about pollution or creation care - then we become the kinds of people who are more likely to be casual toward - say, going to war or caring for the poor. If we consistently practice saying yes to convenience and greed in one area, we will find it harder to say no to convenience and greed in other areas. But if we are consistent in practicing care regarding all areas of life - even when doing so is costly or inconvenient, we will become people caring, consistent people. And with more and more people like that, the world will experience greater healing, harmony, wisdom, and peace. This, I believe, pleases our Creator - who is always consistent and caring towards all creation. December 7, 2004 New features at consistent-life.org Action alerts email list: To receive e-mail alerts about actions you can take to promote the consistent life ethic, send e-mail to actionalerts@consistent-life.org. Future alerts will also be published on the "Action" page. Coming soon: the Consistent Life Blog. Previous headlines 06/28/2004 04/20/2004 03/01/2004 08/30/2003 Press Clippings (Note: articles prior to 2003 will refer to Consistent Life by our old name, the Seamless Garment Network.) This letter was written in response to an editorial in the National Catholic Reporter by Frances Kissling, president of Catholics for a Free Choice, which was highly critical of the Seamless Garment Network for our position against abortion. It was sent to the NCR but was not published. SGN Vice-President Rachel MacNair was quoted in "The Price of Valor", in the July 12, 2004 edition of The New Yorker. "Liberal activists oppose abortion as part of 'seamless' package" -- an article about the SGN. A Consistent Pro-Life Ethic, by SGN Vice-President Rachel MacNair. This article appeared in the April 1999 issue of Quaker Life magazine. The same issue also featured an article on the Network's history by former Executive Director Carol Crossed. |
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