Help, Healing, Research, Education and Advocacy
Always Two Melanie Fyock The mother and child logo shown here was inspired by Dr. David Reardon’s book, Making Abortion Rare.It was created to represent the tragic fact that abortion always has two victims, because you cannot hurt the child without hurting the mother. The two are one and can only be separated by doing […]
An Introduction to Forbidden Grief Theresa Burke with David C. Reardon As a young graduate student, I was assigned to lead a weekly support group for women with eating disorders. It was there that I first observed how abortion is a forbidden grief. It all began with Debbie. She cautiously and fearfully confided to the […]
News Briefs U.S. Senate Recognizes Need for Research on Post-Abortion Syndrome During consideration of the Labor and Health and Human Services Appropriations bill for 2002, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed a resolution expressing the belief that the National Institutes of Health should expand and intensify its research and related activities regarding post-abortion depression and psychosis. […]
All of Abortion’s Dangers Documented in New Book Libraries, pregnancy centers and researchers can now easily access information on the most hotly-contested social, moral and political topic of our day. The Elliot Institute proudly announces the release of Detrimental Effects of Abortion: An Annotated Bibliography with Commentary (3rd Edition). It is the most complete summary […]
On the Road to Healing Case Study Testimony Kari L. I had an abortion when I was 17 years old. I was the youngest in the family and no one ever expected that I would become pregnant so soon. My family was disappointed in me. My mother was sad, but willing to help me at […]
Focusing on Hope How Emphasizing Falling Abortion Rates Enhances Pro-Life Educational Efforts Rachel M. MacNair, Ph.D. Is it just a coincidence that abortion rates have been on the decline during the same period of time that there has been increasing public awareness of post-abortion trauma? Or are the millions of women who have had abortions, […]
News Briefs Kansas Abortionist Not Punished in Consent Case A Kansas abortionist who was accused of performing an abortion after a sedated patient had withdrawn her consent will not be punished after reaching an agreement with state officials. Kristin Neuhaus’s agreement with the state health board requires her to comply with existing laws on sedating […]
The Awakening of African Americans Peggy Lehner Recently I was asked to participate in a debate on abortion at an African American conference. The invitation came from the conference director, who had heard me speaking on a local black radio station about the prevalence of abortion in the black community. My opponent was to be […]
The Hard Truth vs. The Soft Sell As Rachel MacNair points out in the preceding article (see “Focusing on Hope,” from this issue) most people would rather ignore the abortion issue than face up to the moral judgement it implies on us as a nation. As she succinctly stated: “For nearly three decades the pro-life […]
Post-Abortive Women to Overturn Roe v Wade The Elliot Institute has joined a national effort to give post-abortive women a voice in the federal courts, where they will seek to challenge the legality of Roe v. Wade. “This is a great opportunity, through legal affidavits, for women to provide testimony to the federal courts, and […]
By Amy R. Sobie One of the population controllers’ favorite techniques is to portray pregnancy as dangerous, burdensome and demeaning to women. Some have labeled it an “epidemic,” or a “disease.”(1) At a Planned Parenthood conference, for example, one speaker described abortion as an “effective treatment” for “the number two sexually transmitted disease”–unplanned pregnancy.(2) But […]
News Briefs Arizona Abortionist Convicted of Manslaughter An Arizona abortionist will serve five years in prison for allowing a patient to bleed to death after performing a botched abortion on her. John Biskind, 75, was convicted of manslaughter for the 1999 death of 33-year-old LouAnn Herron. Biskind was accused of leaving the clinic after the […]
Our Prodigal Father, Who Art in Heaven by David C. Reardon We are all familiar with the parable known as “The Prodigal Son.” But the title of this parable was not given to it by Christ or the Gospel writers. Like all the subtitles used throughout modern editions of the Bible, it was a late […]
Reviews The ChoiceChris Jackman Interactive Bible Study on CD-Rom. Available for $15 (CD version with Bible study) or $12 (cassette version with music only) from Project Grace, PO Box 112, Zeeland, MI 49464, www.projectgrace.com. The Choice is a truly unique and exciting offering–a CD and interactive Bible study from Project Grace, a post-abortion counseling ministry. […]
Elliot Institute Presents New Findings at International Women’s Health Conference A new Elliot Institute study has found that women who have had abortions are more likely to commit suicide than those who have given birth. The study examined Medi-Cal records for more than 173,000 low-income California women who had abortions or gave birth in 1989. […]
British Government Orders Murder of Innocents David C. Reardon, Ph.D. Destructive experimentation on human embryos, and even well-developed human fetuses, is now widely practiced in many of the world’s most technologically developed (and spiritually senile) nations. Until now, most governments have simply turned a blind eye to the deliberate killing of embryonic human beings. Until […]
Ban on Human Engineering Needed David C. Reardon, Ph.D. The Elliot Institute has renewed its call for a presumptive criminal ban against human cloning and genetic engineering of human beings. This appeal was first issued in 1997 following the cloning of Dolly the sheep. Now as the British government has legalized the cloning of human […]
News Briefs Babysitter Sentenced in Abortion Trauma Death An Iowa babysitter who claimed that post-abortion trauma led her to kill a toddler by slamming him on the floor has been sentenced to 50 years in prison. Tifany Meyers, 19, pled guilty in October to second-degree murder in the death of 21-month-old Joel Vasquez. She later […]
By Amy R. Sobie and David C. Reardon, Ph.D. About 20 percent of all abortions taking place in the U.S. today are performed on teens.(1) Teenage abortion has been linked to a number of physical and psychological problems, including drug and alcohol abuse,(2) suicide attempts and suicidal ideation,(3) and other self-destructive behaviors. Compared to women […]
Finding Real Peace “Karen Temple” It was June 1977 when I found myself pregnant. I felt like my whole life was crashing in. Nice girls like me don’t get pregnant! I had just finished my junior year in high school and had made the Honor Roll. I had started looking into different colleges. I was […]
Volume 9, Number 1, January-March 2001 Download Issue (pdf format) Contents: Detrimental Effects of Adolescent Abortion An examination of the effects of abortion on teens compared to older women, and the need for parental consent laws. British Government Orders Murder of Innocents The perils of the new British cloning law. Ban on Human Engineering Needed […]