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Today is the International Day of Human Rights, and here’s Planned Parenthood’s tweet about it: Unfortunately, for abortion advocates, only some voices count. But not if you’re an unborn child — including unborn girls killed by sex selection abortions. And not if you are a woman who was coerced into, injured or killed by abortion […]
11/8/12 By Deana Schroeder Note: The following is a guest post from a member of the Ad Hoc Committee of Women Pregnant By Sexual Assault (WPSA). I’ve been there. Not Todd Akin. Not Richard Mourdock. And certainly not their critics who sanctimoniously imagine that they know what pregnant sexual assault victims really want and need. As […]
This comment was recently posted to our web site: My mother was raped at age 16. Her parents forced her to have an abortion. She stopped going to church, dropped out of high school and became depressed. Her young adulthood was during WWII and she had a problem with relationships. She eventually married my father […]
By David C. Reardon The accusations that Indiana U.S. Senate candidate Richard Mourdock believes “God intends pregnancies resulting from rape” reveal a despicable attitude toward justice and truth. But even worse, the commentary and debate taking place about rape pregnancies is profoundly hurtful to both women who became pregnant through rape and their children. While the comments may […]
Note: The following is an excerpt from the book Giving Sorrow Words: Women’s Stories of Grief After Abortion. I remember the events surrounding my abortions clearly. There are some things that are so utterly terrible, so devastating, they never fade from the mind or heart. I idolized my boyfriend, whom I met when I was […]
Women Who Became Pregnant Through Rape Renew Calls for Congressional Hearings Group Asks Both Sides to Listen to and Respond to Real Needs of Pregnant Sexual Assault Victims We are members of the Ad Hoc Committee of Women Pregnant by Sexual Assault (WPSA). This group was formed eight years ago to petition Congress to hold […]
Lorena Rivera, a 21-year-old legal receptionist, disappeared while on her way to work in Oklahoma City in April 1997. More than a month later, her body was found buried in a shallow grave. Rivera, 21 weeks pregnant and the mother of a three-year-old son, had been shot twice and beaten to death. Rivera’s friends testified […]
A federal court has dissolved an injunction against enforcement of a new law in South Dakota that requires abortion doctors to screen women for coercion and other factors that increase the risk of psychological complications after abortion. Beginning July 1, physicians must screen women for coercion and other risk factors for psychological complications before scheduling […]
“The coercive enforcement of China’s one-child policy causes more violence against women and girls than any other official policy on earth and any other official policy in the history of the world, ” according to an expert speaking at a memorial for victims of communism. Reggie Littlejohn, president of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers, spoke at […]
Thanks to all who participated in this year’s Church Awareness Project during the second annual Coerced Abortion Awareness Week. Many people helped to “light one candle” by sharing The Jericho Plan and resources about unwanted abortions. This information is an important step to help inform, motivate and inspire our pastors, church leaders and others in […]
The stories mentioned in books such as Aborted Women, Silent No More, Forbidden Grief and Giving Sorrow Words are part of a larger picture and an emerging body of evidence about abortion’s impact on women. Both qualitative and quantitative evidence indicate that unwanted and coerced abortions are common, and that coercion can take many direct […]
The following is excerpted from the book Aborted Women, Silent No More: Twenty Women Share Their Personal Journeys from the Tragedy of Abortion to Restored Wholeness by David C. Reardon. Since the mid-1960s, abortion has been a major national issue, the subject of state and Congressional investigations, thousands of articles, and hundreds of books. But […]
The Ideas Behind the Abortion Industry’s Deceptive Counseling Practices The article below is excerpted from the classic book Aborted Women, Silent No More, by David C. Reardon. This excerpt describes how, in the 1970s, the abortion industry’s approach to “counseling” was developed. Like most other commercial businesses, the abortion industry has a specialized sales force […]
Key Factors in Understanding Women’s Mental Health After Abortion Martha Shuping, M.D. Dr. Shuping presented this article at a United Nations workshop in March 2011, and at the June 2011 meeting of the Association for Interdisciplinary Research on Values and Social Change. In 1973, as a 19-year-old undergraduate student, I worked as a volunteer at […]
In an article at National Review, population control expert Steve Mosher, president of the Population Research Institute, offers some shocking information on sex selection abortions in the United States: [Dr. Sunita Puri], who practices in the Bay Area, wanted to find out why so many immigrant Indian women in the United States were so eager […]
Note: This story is reprinted from the book Victims and Victors: Speaking Out About Their Pregnancies, Abortions and Children Resulting From Sexual Assault. When I was about 13, my stepfather started molesting me. It continued until I came forward with it when I was 16. At age 15, I became pregnant. No one knew but […]
Human Trafficking Expert Says Pro-Abortion Ideology Could Be “A Death Sentence” The U.S. House of Representatives held a hearing Dec. 1 on a decision by the Obama administration to deny funding to a Catholic Church-run program to help trafficking victims, on the grounds that the program doesn’t refer victims for abortion or “family planning.” Numerous […]
Petition Signers Say Using Their Situation to Promote Abortion Stops Women from Getting Authentic Help Abortion and sexual assault pregnancy is a difficult issue for many people, especially since no one wants to hurt those who have already been traumatized. For many, abortion seems like a compassionate answer for women and girls who become pregnant […]
Reality Show Winner Shares Story of Unwanted Abortion The web site Unreality TV quotes an interview with Josie Gibson, a British reality star who revealed that she underwent an unwanted abortion after being coerced by her ex-boyfriend: “He waited until I was three months gone to tell me that he didn’t want it. I even […]
We have just created our first YouTube channel, http://www.youtube.com/abortionrisks, where we will be uploading a number of videos over the next several months. The first, available now, is a 30 second television commercial that has aired as both paid and public service advertising which examines the problem of unwanted abortions. Please “like” the video and […]
Great news from the Center Against Forced Abortions (CAFA): Recently, the Alliance Defense Fund contacted us on behalf of a young girl in Kansas who was trying to help a girl being forced by her parents to have an abortion. We immediately contacted the girl who turned out to be the sister of the baby’s […]
Survey Finds Most Women Pregnant From Sexual Assault Don’t Want Abortions; Say It Adds to Trauma There has been very little research conducted to date on the experiences of women who became pregnant as a result of rape or incest. One survey was conducted by the Elliot Institute for our book, Victims and Victors: Speaking […]
By “Denise Kalasky” I am a victim of incest; one of the “hard cases” for abortion. I was raped by my father when I was fifteen years old. It was not the first time, nor would it be the last. However, this time, I became pregnant. One night, I became very sick and my […]