"Let your whole life be a creative testimony to the inherent dignity of human life."
Aimee Murphy, author
Books | White Papers | Articles | Poetry
Rehumanize:
A Vision to Secure Human Rights for All
nonfiction book | New City Press | July 2022
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Various Rehumanize blog & Life Matters Journal articles
articles | Rehumanize blog & Life Matters Journal | 2011- present
Remarks at the Vigil for Justice, October 2021
Twenty Years Later, September 2021
PRESS RELEASE: Pittsburgh Pro-Life Leaders Call for End to Unethical Fetal Tissue Research at Pitt, May 2021
“You Are Enough”: A Brilliant Children’s Book Inspired by a Girl with Down Syndrome, March 2021
Rejecting the Violence of the Two-Party Duopoly, November 2020
Healing the Heritage of Trauma: a review of The Body Keeps the Score and Running On Empty, August 2019
The Silence of the Left: The Horror of a Two-Party War Machine, November 2016
Voting Matters: The Battle for the Soul of America, July 2016
No Planned Parenthood in Pittsburgh City Schools!, July 2015
#LifeMatters: Abortion in Popular Music, August 2013
Abortion Enables Red-Pill Bros (or, How "Bro-Choice" Hurts Feminism), August 2013
Facing a Common Christian Argument in Support of the Death Penalty, June 2013
"October Baby" Fails to Deliver, March 2012
Penn State: Evidence of a Larger Problem, December 2011
What Drove Them Away, December 2011
The Unexpected Truth in "The Ides of March", December 2011
Justice in the Face of Unknowing, September 2011
Frozen
short prose | Create Encounter submission | February 2021
A brief piece of stream-of-consciousness prose on the subject of trauma, personal healing, and embryo adoption.
Read the whole piece here.
Torture Behind Bars: Coerced Sterilization in Prisons article series
articles | Rehumanize blog & Life Matters Journal | August 2018 & September 2020
Restore the Heart: Healing the Communal Trauma of Abortion through a Restorative Justice System
white paper | co-authored with Catherine Glenn Foster | January 2020
This white paper created by Rehumanize International and Americans United for Life aims to inform lawmakers, influencers, judicial leaders, and our society about the need for a system of Restorative Justice to be enacted in union with efforts to end abortion.
Read the full document here.
Twilight Orphan
poem | Strange Enchantments, Pittsburgh, PA | June 2019
A short poem in iambic hexameter, exploring the tension of existing as part of two seemingly-opposed groups in our horrific modern culture war.
Read the full text here.
Do No Harm: Addressing the Medicalization of Violence and the Need for Human-Centered Healthcare
white paper | co-authored with Odiraa Okala & Herb Geraghty | October 2018
This white paper created by Rehumanize International aims to inform lawmakers, influencers, judicial leaders, and our society about the ingrained violence within our medical system, and suggests brief suggestions for undoing these practices.
Read the full document here.
A Consistent Life: The Young Advocate's Guide to Living Peace & Justice Daily
weekly social justice planner | co-authored with Mary Grace Coltharp | September 2018
This holistic guide offers activists young and old ways to support the marginalized and rehumanize the dehumanized. In working for peace and justice daily, readers will participate actively in education, discourse, and action to uphold the inherent dignity of the preborn, the elderly and disabled, the incarcerated, and those at risk from policy brutality, racism, poverty, human trafficking, and war. Activities include direct service to those at risk from violence, advocating for human-centered public policy, raising awareness, and perhaps most importantly: celebrating life.
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Response to Symposium: "Whole Life vs. Pro-Life?"
symposium article | Human Life Review | August 2017
The editors at Human Life Review asked participants to respond to the following questions: 1) Should people who defend the right to life of the unborn and the dying call themselves “whole-life” or “consistent-life” rather than “pro-life”? 2) Does defending the right to life today require particular political commitments? 3) Is the “whole life” movement really a newly fashioned “seamless garment”—Cardinal Bernardin’s “linkage” movement of 1983?
Read my full article response here.
I’m an anti-abortion feminist—I’ll walk at the Women’s March, whether organizers like it or not
op-ed article | The Washington Post | January 2017
An opinion editorial that covers our exclusion from the pro-abortion Women's March. The original title was "Not Welcome Unless You're Wanted: Pro-Life Feminists Fight Against Discrimination at Women's March" — title was changed by the publication.
Read the full piece here.
Toward the Abolition of Strategic Nuclear Weapons: A Just War Analysis of Total War
white paper | co-authored with John Whitehead & Jason Jones | August 2016
This white paper created by Rehumanize International in partnership with Consistent Life and I Am Whole Life aims to inform lawmakers, influencers, judicial leaders, and our society about the injustice of nuclear weapons from a Just War Theory perspective.
Read the full document here.
Wrappings
poem | Life Matters Journal | December 2011
A short free-verse piece on dehumanizing language.
Read the full piece here.
