| Description |
iv, 204 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : the power of being consistent / Rachel M. MacNair -- Connected violence : Word games take lives / William Brennan -- The left has betrayed the sanctity of life : consistency demands concern for the unborn / Mary Meehan -- The indivisibilty of life and the slippery slope / Nat Hentoff -- Israel / Palestine and abortion / Stephen Zunes -- Understanding how killing traumatizes the killer / Rachel M. MacNair -- Abortion and the feminization of poverty / Thomas W. Strahan -- The direct killing of racism and poverty / Excerpts from various sources -- When bigotry turns disabilities deadly / Excerpts from various sources -- Right to life of humans and animals / Vasu Murti -- Does the seamless garment fit? American public opinion / Edith Bogue -- Perceptions of connections / Rachel M. MacNair. |
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Connected solutions : Activists reminisce : an oral history of pro-lifers for survival / Taped interview -- Activism throughout the centuries / Mary Krane Derr -- Changing hearts and minds / Mary Meehan -- The law's role in the consistent life ethic / Carol Crossed -- Pro-life politics : from counter-movement to transforming movement / James R. Kelly -- Connecting the dots, nonviolently / Michael N. Nagler -- People power and regime change : how nonviolence spreads democracy / Stephen Zunes -- Conflict transformation : dissolving "battle lines" / Rachel M. MacNair. |
| Summary |
From the Publisher: This work explains an increasingly popular view dubbed the Consistent Life Ethic, which holds that all life deserves reverence, so all social support for actions that destroy life should be withdrawn. The call is for opposition to abortion, capital punishment, euthanasia and other forms of killing to be consistent. Supporters of this view, shared widely in these pages, include figures from the Dalai Lama and Nobel Peace Prize winner Malread Corrifon Maguire to actor Martin Sheen and Village Voice columnist Nat Hentoff. It is at once an ethical, religious and political ideology, explored here in its application to actions from treatment of unborn humans to infants, the disabled, the poverty-stricken, war combatants, and animals. In the work at hand, contributors explain the history of the pro-life movement, its growth and expansion, how these types of seemingly disparate killing are all linked, why a Consistent Life Ethic is needed, and how individuals can take steps to assure this ethic is more widely accepted. |
| Subject |
Violence -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Life and death, Power over.
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Bioethics.
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| Added Author |
MacNair, Rachel.
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Zunes, Stephen.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Consistently opposing killing. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2008 (OCoLC)607776634 |
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Online version: Consistently opposing killing. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2008 (OCoLC)609026856 |
| ISBN |
9780313352782 alkaline paper |
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031335278X alkaline paper |
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