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<It began and ended with Bernardin. Just a footnote in history now.>
And yet here we are, more than twenty years after the cardinal's death, discussing it. The fact is that the 'consistent ethic of life' and the debate that ensued about it was clarifying for the pro-life movement and changed it. Few in the movement today reduce "pro-life" to anti-abortion; indeed, they rightly object when they are accused of doing that; except, of course, for the minority of them who DO do that.