Johnny Hunter Added to Speakers at 25^th Anniversary Conference
 
        Dr. Johnny Hunter (pictured left), long-time activist and National Director of the Life Education And Resource Network (LEARN, Inc.), the most prominent African-American prolife ministry in the U.S., and President of Global Life & Family Mission, has agreed to speak at our March 9-11 conference. As announced previously, we also have Dr. Catherine Meeks (pictured middle left); Life Matters journal editor Aimee Bedoy (pictured middle right); Sheldon Schafer, Green Party candidate for the U.S. House from Illinois; Rachel Muha (pictured right, with friends), who received the Jefferson Award for Public Service, and Dr. Rachel MacNair, author of several consistent-life books.
        Registration by printed brochure is now open, and we expect to have online registration shortly. We’ll need registration by January 31 to make arrangements with the locale.

  
  

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Life Matters– Second Issue Out!
 
 
        The Winter 2012 issue of this consistent-ethic journal is now out with many fine articles, including ones that relate consistent-ethic principles to libertarians, GLBT concerns, Catholic social teaching and Quakers – as before, a fine variety. It can be read online or ordered in paper version.  
  




 

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Feminists for Life – 40^th Anniversary
 
        CL member group Feminists for Life is preparing for its 40^th anniversary in 2012.
        They’re asking for help in collecting photographs of Feminists for Life people, gatherings, and events from the last 40 years for its celebration. Photos from any era are welcome submissions, and they are especially interested in photographs more than 15 years old, including events of former chapters.
         If you have any photos to share, or know how to contact someone who might, please email them at info@feministsforlife.org.
  

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Quotation of the Week
Charles C. Camosy
“Toward a ‘Magenta’ Public Bioethics Discourse”, The American Journal of Bioethics, December 2011, p. 9
         
        “The abortion politics . . .  always seemed out of place—especially from an ideological point of view. Conservatives energetically calling for big government to control the private lives of individuals because of concern for injustice directed against a vulnerable population? Liberals, without examining the power structures lying beneath the choice, appealing to the overriding value of privacy and freedom as what is ultimate about the good of reproduction? Such a political world sounds bizarre, but it is the one in which the abortion debate has been conducted in the United States.”