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Consistently Opposing Killing From Abortion to Assisted Suicide, the Death Penalty, and War
Rachel M. MacNair and Stephen Zunes, editors
ISBN: 0-313-35278-X
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-35278-2
208 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 4/30/2008
List Price: $49.95 (UK Sterling Price: £34.95)
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Media Type: Hardcover
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Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: 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Life Ethic, which holds that all life deserves reverence, so all social support for actions that destroy life should be withdrawn.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.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The Power of Being Consistent: Rachel MacNair
    1. Word Games Take Lives: William Brennan
    2. The Left has Betrayed the Sanctity of Life: Consistency Demands Concern for the Unborn: Mary Meehan
    3. The Indivisibility of Life and The Slippery Slope: Nat Hentoff
    4. Israel/Palestine and Abortion: Stephen Zunes
    5. Understanding How Killing Traumatizes the Killer: Rachel M. MacNair
    6. Abortion and the Feminization of Poverty: Thomas Strahan
    7. The Direct Killing of Racism and Poverty: excerpts from various sources
    8. When Bigotry Turns Disabilities Deadly: excerpts from various sources
    9. Right to Life of Humans and Animals: Vasu Murti
    10. Does the Seamless Garment Fit? American Public Opinion: Edith Bogue
    11. Perceptions of Connections: Rachel MacNair
    12. Activists Reminisce: An Oral History of Prolifers for Survival: Taped interview.
    13. Activism Throughout the Centuries: Mary Krane Derr
    14. Changing Hearts and Minds: Mary Meehan
    15. The Laws Role in the Consistent Life Ethic: Carol Crossed
    16. Pro-Life Politics: From Counter-Movement to Transforming Movement: James R. Kelly
    17. Connecting the Dots Nonviolently: Michael Nagler
    18. People Power and Regime Change: How Nonviolence Spreads Democracy: Stephen Zunes
    19. Conflict Transformation: Dissolving "Battle Lines": Rachel MacNair
About the Author: RACHEL M. MACNAIR is Director of the Institute for Integrated Social Analysis. A Psychologist and Sociologist, she is also author of Psychology of Peace: An Introduction (Praeger 2003) and Perpetration Induced Traumatic Stress: The Psychological Consequences of Killing (Praeger, 2002).

STEPHEN ZUNES is Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of San Francisco, where he chairs the Middle East studies program. He serves as a member of the advisory committee for the Tikkun Community and as the chair of the board of academic advisors for the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict. Previous books include Tinderbox: U.S. Middle East Policy and the Roots of Terrorism (2003) and Nonviolent Social Movements: A Geographical Perspective (1999).
PDF Catalogs:
Psychology Catalog 2008.pdf
Academic Library Fall 2008.pdf
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