Rest in Peace: Will Campbell
 
        Consistent Life mourns the death of CL Endorser Will Campbell, age 88, on Monday June 3. Will was best known as an early White Southern civil rights activist, and was the only White person present at the forming of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the organization led by Martin Luther King, Jr. for the civil rights movement. Campbell was longtime Director of one of the founding groups of Consistent Life, the Committee of Southern Churchmen, renamed Witnesses for Reconciliation and now inactive. He was also an award-winning writer who spoke out on other issues such as war and the death penalty, in addition to his work against racism.
 
 
We Add Another to the Community
 
        Lynn Lewandowski has done a lot of graphic design work for Consistent Life, so we're delighted to announce the birth of her daughter, Anya, on May 1.
    
Resource: Quickie Web Pages
 
        CL member group Friends Witness for a Pro-life Peace Testimony (Quakers) has recently put up pages you may find helpful to refer friends with specific concerns to:

• Connections of Abortion with Nuclear Weapons
   
• Connections of Abortion with Weaponized Drones
   
• Connections of Abortion with the Death Penalty

 
       They also still have their page explaining pacifism in pro-life terms, Quakers being a traditional pacifist church.
 
Connections: War and Domestic Violence and Therefore Abortion
 
       Patrick Stewart, a British actor whose best known role is as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, is shown here in a video with a heart-felt telling of what happened with his own parents, by way of explaining his activism against domestic violence. His mother suffered beatings from his father, and his father suffered from participating in combat during World War II. Stewart clearly connects the two. 
         Stewart doesn't then go on to mention the connection of domestic violence to abortion, but we will. Direct violence against women is one of the major causes of pregnancies launched under circumstances where abortion is considered, and gives a context for established pregnancies that makes abortion more likely to be considered by women. But when women don't consider abortion, and the men abusing them think they should, that can become a cause for more abuse. As the tip of the iceberg, in extreme cases, they kill the women, as shown in this documentation from news stories in the United States alone. 
   
Quotation of the Week
Lactantius, early North African Christian author (ca. 240 – ca. 320), The Divine Institutes

        Steeped in this practice [gladiator games] they have lost humaneness . . . when God forbids killing, God not only prohibits us from piracy, which is not permitted even by public laws, but God also advises that those things also, which are regarded as lawful among people, should not be done. So, neither will it be permitted a just person, whose service is justice herself, to enter military service, nor can he [or she] accuse anyone of a capital crime, because there is no difference whether you kill a person with a sword or a word, since the killing itself is prohibited.
        Therefore, in this command of God, no exception whatsoever must be made. It is always wrong to kill . . . Let no one, then, think that it is to be conceded even that newly born children may be done away with, an especially great impiety! God breathes souls into them for life, not for death.