Help, Healing, Research, Education and Advocacy
10/24/17 A government report on the United Kingdom’s largest abortion chain, Marie Stopes International, has found allegations that the company based performance bonuses for the staff on encouraging women to have abortions: One section of the Care Quality Commission (CQC) report on the Marie Stopes center in Maidstone, Kent, infers that staff felt pressure to encourage women to go […]
By Secular Pro-Life Perspectives One of the more disturbing articles I’ve read this week comes from an Ohio affiliate of National Public Radio, and it is entitled “Unaccompanied In Pain: Gaps In Ohio Law Hurt Teen Moms.” It describes how pregnant teens who are estranged from their families are caught in a horrific legal loophole: […]
9/11/2017 An appeals court in Alabama has reversed a judge’s ruling preventing a minor girl from undergoing an abortion: Alabama state law says minors must get permission from their parents to have an abortion (§ 26-21-1 et seq., Ala. Code 1975). The statute does, however, say that minors can obtain waivers from the court that […]
8/15/2017 Writing at Save the 1, a mother who conceived a child as a result of rape speaks out in defense of children conceived in rape and their mothers: I have a question for the people … who claim great concern for the pregnant rape victim to the point of demanding abortion: What have you […]
8/8/2017 A House committee in Texas has approved a bill that would require abortion clinics to report complications and maternal deaths to the state Health and Human Services Commission within 72 hours: House Bill 13 by Rep. Giovanni Capriglione, R-Southlake, would require abortion providers and health care facilities to report within three business days to the Texas […]
7/28/2017 Massachusetts is considering a bill that would lower the age of consent for abortion from 18 to 16, allowing for abortions to be performed on girls 16 or older without parental consent or notification. The bill, S. 754, is being presented under the guise of “safeguarding the health care decisions of young adults.” But […]
6/23/2017 A statement released last month from the director of the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services has called out abortion clinics in the state for violating a law that requires them to report complications. Randall Williams stated that his department will enforce the law: Since 1979, Missouri law has required providers of […]
6/9/2017 With Father’s Day approaching, this is a must-read article from The Daily Telegraph (Australia) about the link between abortion and suicide among men: Piecing together the pain of loss for men after abortion By Corrine Barraclough There are some times in life when you don’t join the dots until you have a conversation […]
5/26/2017 A new US State Department program that is supposed to fight human trafficking is raising concerns among some human rights groups that the money may end up supporting abortion and prostitution. The Center for Family and Human Rights (C-FAM) reports that a coalition of human rights groups sent a letter last month to the […]
5/12/2017 Women Who’ve Been There Say Abortion Doesn’t Help, Causes More Harm The New York Times recently ran a profile in their op-ed section on Willie Parker, an abortionist who recently published a book on his work and who claims to perform abortions as a result of his “Christian” beliefs. The article ends with a […]
4/17/17 By Chuck Donovan In recent years, advocates of legal abortion have turned their attention to limiting or interfering with the work of pregnancy help centers (PHCs), typically nonprofit groups that offer a range of free or heavily discounted services to women and girls who think they may be pregnant. These centers have sprung up […]
4/4/2017 Researchers studying the breast cancer epidemic in the UK have called for a recognition of the risks caused by induced abortion and hormonal contraception, saying that “acknowledgment of the importance of these risk factors is needed to open the way for breast cancer prevention.” In a paper published in the Journal of American Physicians and […]
3/17/17 By Cheryl Sullenger Karnamaya Mongar, a tiny Bhutanese refugee who barely spoke a word of English, died at the hands of Kermit Gosnell and his incompetent staff on November 19, 2009. Mongar had newly immigrated to the U.S. with her family, who was struggling to make ends meet on low-wage jobs in Virginia. […]
3/3/2017 As the debate over whether to allow abortion in Ireland continues, an Irish professor has stated that the claim that abortion is bad for women’s mental health is a “fringe view” that is not supported in science or medicine. Veronica O’Keane, professor of psychiatry at Trinity College Dublin, told the The Irish Times […]
2/21/2017 New legislation introduced in Florida and Iowa would make it easier for women who suffer psychological distress after abortion to hold abortionists accountable. Usually, tort law doesn’t allow for recovery of damages for emotional distress unless it is the result of physical injury. This means that a woman experiencing psychological problems after an […]
2/3/17 A government inspection has found that the United Kingdom’s largest abortion chain, Marie Stopes International (MSI), was coercing women to abort and violating safety procedures, leading them to suspend nearly half of the abortions they were performing. More than 2,600 violations were found, according to inspectors. The inspections were detailed in a report published […]
2016 was a busy year for us here at the Elliot Institute! Here are our most popular newsletter posts of the year: Hillary’s Wrong: No Medical Evidence Finds Abortion Can Save a Mother’s Life Study: Abortion for Fetal Anomalies Increases Risk of Mental Health Problems It Destroyed My Life: Prenatal Testing and Coerced Abortion Study […]
12/20/16 By Theresa Bonopartis As we try to bring healing to those in the US who have been injured by abortion in so many ways, I often forget that The International Planned Parenthood Federation is busy manipulating and deceiving young girls and women all over the world to buy into the junk we bought into […]
11/22/16 By Philippa Taylor (Via CMF Blogs) Recent headlines in The (UK) Times and Guardian along the lines that “Doctors must warn patients of all the dangers before every treatment” reflect one of the biggest legal changes to the doctor-patient relationship in a generation. The headlines were prompted by new guidelines issued by the Royal College of Surgeons […]
11/18/16 An activist in Great Britain is accusing the Crown Prosecution Service of failing to pursue charges in a case involving a woman who was allegedly forced to have a sex-selection abortion: “When her family found out the baby was a girl, she was put under a lot of emotional pressure and duress. She did not […]
11/9/16 By Calvin Freiburger (Via Live Action News) Alex Zielinski of the San Antonio Current is not happy that pro-life lawyer and Justice Foundation president Allan Parker sent a letter to Texas school districts offering guidance counselors and nurses training and resources on state law against coerced abortions. From Parker’s letter: This important information deals […]
11/4/16 David C. Reardon In the most recent presidential debate, Hillary Clinton claimed late-term abortions are sometimes necessary to save women’s lives. That’s great rhetoric, but it is not supported by even a single medical study. Before examining the “abortion to save women’s lives” question, it is first important to note that only about 1.2 […]
Theresa Bonopartis “This is pregnancy and infancy loss awareness month, but hardly anyone is counting our losses.” — SG Unfortunately, there is a disconnect when it comes to acknowledging the feelings often experienced by siblings of aborted babies. As the above mentioned sibling was told when she sought to remember her aborted brother in a […]
