Consistent Life News
Issue #6
Summer 2006
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IISA Update:
News from the Research Arm of Consistent Life

New Books

Prolife Feminism: Yesterday & Today came out in January, in a second expanded edition. Full of the writings of the feminists of yesteryear and contemporary views, IISA has been helping get the word out. Good comments have come in from self-identified pro-choice reviewers as material that made them stop and think. For more information, see www.fnsa.org/pfyt.html.

Protecting the Uunprotected: The Power of Being Consistent is an anthology on the consistent life ethic from a wide variety of perspectives. The chapters are all collected. For more information, see www.rachelmacnair.com/prolifebooks.

Travel

Director Rachel MacNair has made many trips to academic conferences, especially peace-oriented ones. She reports that there are themes that seem to be accepted and draw interesting discussions among people who say they’re given pause to think beyond their “pro-choice” assumptions: integrating the culture of peace and the culture of life, the impact of the abortion debate on the achievement of peace movement goals, and conflict transformation skills for the left-wing/right-wing divide. Handouts on these points are being developed for wider use by CL sympathizers.

Networking

Anyone who would like to participate in the network to promote quantity and quality of scholarship on the consistent life ethic can fill out the form at the IISA page.

Vietnam/Cambodia

Vietnam apparently has the highest abortion rate in the world (though Russia has the highest ratio). Might this be connected to the major traumatization of the war? Though answers are not likely to be found in a few days, Rachel will be visiting Vietnam and Cambodia on a People-to-People delegation of psychologists this November. Watch future newsletters to see what she finds out.