Editing Consistent life ethic (section)

===Growth and present-day activity===
The non-profit organization Consistent Life Network, founded in 1987 as the Seamless Garment Network, promotes adherence to the ethic through education and non-violent action.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Vision & Mission|url=https://www.consistentlifenetwork.org/mission|access-date=2021-02-07|website=consistent-life|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Member Organizations|url=https://www.consistentlifenetwork.org/member-orgs|access-date=2021-02-07|website=consistent-life|language=en}}</ref> Individual endorsers belonging to the organization include Father [[Daniel Berrigan]], theologian [[Harvey Cox]], ''Village Voice'' columnist [[Nat Hentoff]], Father [[Theodore Hesburgh]], actress [[Patricia Heaton]], ''[[L'Arche]]'' founder [[Jean Vanier]], death penalty activist Sister [[Helen Prejean]], pastor and activist Patrick Mahoney, author [[Ken Kesey]], [[Archbishop of Canterbury]] [[Rowan Williams]] and Nobel Peace Prize laureates [[Mairead Corrigan Maguire]] and [[Adolfo Pérez Esquivel]].<ref name="endorsers">{{cite web|title=Consistent Life Individual Endorsers As of January 9, 2017|url=http://www.consistent-life.org/clsigners.pdf|website=Consistent Life Network|access-date=17 January 2017}}</ref> [[Rachel MacNair]], for ten years (1994–2004) President of [[Feminists for Life]], an anti-abortion organization, is the director of the Institute for Integrated Social Analysis, the research arm of Consistent Life Network.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.consistent-life.org/research.html |title=Institute for Integrated Social Analysis |publisher=Consistent Life Network |access-date=9 January 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last1=Derr | first1=M.K. | last2=MacNair | first2=R. | last3=Naranjo-Huebl | first3=L. | title=Prolife Feminism: Yesterday and Today | publisher=Feminism and Nonviolence Studies Association | year=2005 | isbn=978-1-4134-9577-5 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z35RPgAACAAJ}}</ref>

The Network also consists of member groups such as Rehumanize International, created under the name Life Matters Journal by Aimee Murphy in 2011.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Camosy |first=Charles |date=18 May 2017 |title='Consistent Life Ethic' needed to change attitudes on abortion |work=Crux |url=https://cruxnow.com/interviews/2017/05/18/consistent-life-ethic-needed-change-attitudes-abortion |access-date=20 August 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Graham|first=Ruth|date=11 October 2016|title=The New Culture of Life|language=en-US|work=Slate|url=http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/cover_story/2016/10/the_future_of_the_pro_life_movement.html|access-date=10 April 2017|issn=1091-2339}}</ref>  Secular Pro-Life, [[Democrats for Life of America]], the Pro-Life Alliance of Gays and Lesbians (PLAGAL), and All Our Lives (a pro-contraception feminist group), [[New Wave Feminists]] (led by [[Destiny Herndon-De La Rosa]]), and the [[American Solidarity Party]], a [[Christian Democratic]] political party, are all additional members.<ref name="Hedges2020">{{cite journal |author1=James Hedges |author-link=James Hedges |title=Prohibition Platform incorporates a Consistent Life Ethic |journal=National Prohibitionist |date=June 2020 |volume=10 |issue=2 |page=4 |publisher=Mercersburg Printing |language=en |issn=1549-9251}}</ref><ref name="Hughes">{{cite news|last=Hughes|first=Mariann|date=30 October 2016|title=The search for a third way in U.S. politics|work=Our Sunday Visitor|url=https://www.osv.com/OSVNewsweekly/Article/TabId/535/ArtMID/13567/ArticleID/20947/The-search-for-a-third-way-in-US-politics.aspx|access-date=2 February 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Complete Platform|url=http://www.solidarity-party.org/complete-platform|access-date=2 February 2017|website=American Solidarity Party}}</ref><ref name="Halper 2016">{{cite news|last=Halper|first=Daniel|date=9 June 2016|title=WH Denies Endorsement Will Intimidate FBI Investigators|work=Weekly Standard|url=http://www.weeklystandard.com/wh-denies-endorsement-will-intimidate-fbi-investigators/article/2002757|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160610140434/http://www.weeklystandard.com/wh-denies-endorsement-will-intimidate-fbi-investigators/article/2002757|url-status=dead|archive-date=10 June 2016|access-date=11 February 2017}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{cite web|title=About|url=https://www.newwavefeminists.com/about|access-date=11 February 2017|website=New Wave Feminists}}</ref> These organizations collaborate with Consistent Life Network for activism and volunteer outreach efforts.

Along with the [[American Solidarity Party]], the [[Prohibition Party]], a [[minor party|minor political party]] in the United States, endorses a consistent life ethic.<ref name="Hedges2020"/>

The [[USCCB|United States Conference of Catholic Bishops]] promotes the [[culture of life]], which their endorsers also claim to mean the consistent ethic of life, through publications, volunteer efforts, and declarations. Several Catholic dioceses have groups created with the aim of promoting the consistent life ethic in their communities and putting it into practice.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Culture Of Life {{!}} USCCB|url=https://www.usccb.org/committees/pro-life-activities/culture-life|access-date=2021-02-07|website=www.usccb.org}}</ref> The [[Catholic Worker Movement]], established by [[Dorothy Day]] and [[Peter Maurin]], is an organization primarily aimed towards grassroots organization and volunteer work to serve the poor, marginalized, and those facing unexpected pregnancies.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Catholic Worker Movement|url=https://www.catholicworker.org/cw-aims-and-means.html|access-date=2021-02-07|website=www.catholicworker.org}}</ref>

Other prominent authors who have written in support of the consistent life ethic include [[Frank Pavone]],<ref>{{cite web |last=Pavone |first=Frank |url=http://www.priestsforlife.org/columns/4378-the-consistent-ethic-of-life-myths-and-realities |title=The Consistent Ethic of Life: Myths and Realities |website=Priests for Life |date=1 January 1999 |access-date=25 July 2017}}</ref> [[John Dear]],<ref name="Dear 2008">{{cite web | last=Dear | first=John | title=The Consistent Ethic of Life | website=FatherJohnDear.org | date=15 July 2008 | url=http://www.fatherjohndear.org/articles/the_consistent_ethic.html | access-date=9 March 2017 }}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref><ref name="Dear 2005">{{cite book | last=Dear | first=J. | title=The God of Peace: Toward A Theology of Nonviolence | publisher=Wipf & Stock Publishers | year=2005 | isbn=978-1-59752-112-3 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xE5LAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA158 | access-date=9 March 2017 | page=158ff}}</ref><ref name="endorsers-web">{{cite web | title=Consistent Life Network Endorsers | website=Consistent Life Network | url=http://www.consistentlifenetwork.org/endorsers | access-date=9 March 2017}}</ref> [[Ron Sider]],<ref>{{cite book|last1=Sider|first1=Ron|title=Completely Pro-Life|date=1987|publisher=Intervarsity Press|isbn=978-0-8308-1706-1}}</ref> [[James Hedges]],<ref name="Hedges2020"/> [[Tony Campolo]],<ref>{{cite news|last1=Campolo|first1=Tony|title=Who is Really Pro-Life?|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tony-campolo/who-is-really-prolife_b_31947.html|access-date=13 January 2017|work=Huffington Post|date=18 October 2006}} (revised 25 May 2011)</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Merritt|first1=Jonathan|title=Tony Campolo hits hard on abortion, gay marriage, Israel and more|url=http://religionnews.com/2013/12/17/tony-campolo-hits-hard-hot-button-issues/|access-date=13 January 2017|work=Religion News Service|date=17 December 2013}}</ref><ref name="Pally" /> [[Joel Hunter]],<ref name="Pally">{{cite news|last1=Pally|first1=Marcia|title=The New Evangelicals: How Christians are rethinking Abortion and Gay Marriage|url=http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2011/12/28/3399068.htm|access-date=13 January 2017|work=Australian Broadcasting Commission|date=28 December 2011}}</ref> [[Wendell Berry]],<ref>{{cite letter |last=Berry |first=Wendell |date=22 June 1986 |subject=The consequences of treating a fetus as a human being: Reader survey on abortion |work=Whole Earth Review |url=http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/nvp/consistent/whole-earth.html |access-date=8 August 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Berry |first=Wendell |title=The failure of war}}</ref><ref name="endorsers-web" /> and [[Shane Claiborne]].<ref name="Pally" /><ref>{{cite web|last1=Claiborne|first1=Shane|title=A Dialogue on What it Means to be Pro-Life|url=https://www.redletterchristians.org/a-dialogue-on-what-it-means-to-be-pro-life/|website=Red Letter Christians|access-date=13 January 2017|date=22 January 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Claiborne|first1=Shane|title=The Irresistible Revolution|year=2006|url=https://archive.org/details/irresistiblerevo00clai|url-access=registration|publisher=Zondervan|isbn=9780310266303}}</ref>