Introduction to the Consistent Life Ethic

What is the Consistent Life Ethic?

The Consistent Life Ethic is a philosophy that opposes the killing of human beings. It is the belief that killing people should never be legally sanctioned. People who support the Consistent Life Ethic believe that human life has intrinsic value and inherent worth.

The value of human beings is not based on their age, ability, degree of independence, accomplishments, condition of guilt or innocence, country of origin, religious or political beliefs, or any other factor. Rather, we all have inherent value because we are human.

By virtue of our shared humanity, we are all valuable, and we all deserve to be protected from lethal violence. Every human individual has a right to life.

Consistent Life Ethic supporters oppose war, euthanasia, assisted suicide, the death penalty, and abortion. We oppose racism and discrimination against the disabled (ableism) as threats to human life and dignity. We seek to help the poor. Sex trafficking, poverty, and homelessness, as well as lack of healthcare, are also threats to human life and are issues we care about.

Key to the Consistent Life Ethic is opposition to the belief that some lives are less valuable than others. There are no exceptions to the right to life. A person does not lose their right to life when they commit a crime.

Nor do they lose their right to life when they are dependent upon another person to survive. They don’t lose their right to life when they are compromised by disability, injury, or illness, and lose some capacity to function.

They don’t lose their right to life even if they are in a state of clinical depression and want to die. If the situation is not strictly one of self-defense, where there is no other option to prevent murder, killing a human being is wrong. Even in cases of self-defense, the killing of a person is tragic and never something to celebrate, though it may in these rare instances be morally permissible.

The Consistent Life Ethic rejects designating certain segments of the population as expendable. It also rejects using the concept of “personhood” to…

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