The consistent ethic of life is a moral framework of Roman Catholic social teaching that was introduced in a 1971 sermon by Humberto Medeiros, archbishop of Boston, and developed in a 1983 lecture by Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, archbishop of Chicago. It calls for Catholics to stand in opposition to a range of issues that threaten human life at any stage, according to church teaching. These issues include war, poverty, euthanasia, abortion, nuclear proliferation, and capital punishment.
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