Help, Healing, Research, Education and Advocacy
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 […]
Introduction Recent news reports have put teens and abortion in the news, with the release of undercover videos allegedly showing abortion businesses covering up cases of sexual abuse involving teenage girls. And the pro-abortion Alan Guttmacher Institute has released a report saying that teen pregnancies rose 3 percent in 2006. While critics are questioning the statistics […]
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 […]
10/20/16 This is part of a series on telling your children about a past abortion. Visit here for the previous posts in this series: To Tell or Not to Tell? and Finding Healing. Talking to your child about a past abortion can be very hard. If you are thinking about whether or not to do […]
10/11/16 This is part II of a series on telling your children about a past abortion. For Part I, “To Tell or Not to Tell,” click here. The Importance of Healing Another important thing for parents to consider is how much healing they themselves have experienced, said post-abortion counselor Trudy Johnson, who also went through […]
10/6/16 Theresa Bonopartis, founder of Lumina post-abortion healing ministry, vividly remembers the day that she phoned her doctor for the results of her pregnancy test. She was 18, unmarried, and scared. The doctor’s words confirmed what, despite months of denial, she already knew–she was almost four months pregnant. She and her boyfriend decided to marry. […]
10/3/16 Christina Marie Bennet, a pregnancy resource center counselor, wrote an open letter to a Harvard student who wrote about her abortion experience: Dear Pregnant at Harvard Student, I read the anonymous letter you submitted to your school newspaper, The Harvard Crimson, sharing your personal abortion story. I wish I knew your name. I wish that […]
9/30/16 The last few years have seen increased attacks on pregnancy help centers from the abortion lobby and their allies in the media and legislators. Laws on the books in Illinois and California would require pregnancy centers to refer clients to abortion clinics — and, in the case of Illinois, to counsel clients about the […]
9/9/16 By Msgr. Charles Pope I spent the afternoon today taking part in a “webinar” focused on providing support, Church teaching and information to families who receive a pre-natal diagnosis that their child will be disabled in some way. Perhaps they are informed that the child will have Down Syndrome, or perhaps a birth […]
9/2/16 Pressure, Coercion and Other Things That Happen When Expectant Parents Receive A Negative Prenatal Diagnosis When expectant parents are given a negative diagnosis indicating that their unborn child likely has a disability, illness or other health problem, they are thrown into a situation that is unexpected, confusing and terrifying. “Pregnant woman and their partners […]
