Help, Healing, Research, Education and Advocacy
By David C. Reardon, Ph.D. There is an important connection between violence in the womb and violence in the home. Certainly not every abortion leads to domestic violence, nor is every case of domestic violence rooted in the trauma of a prior abortion. But it is not a coincidence that the rates of abortion and […]
It was the trial of the decade. But the media frenzy over Lorena Bobbitt’s midnight mutilation of her husband John barely gave mention to a core piece of her testimony. She was a victim of forced abortion. Psychiatric experts for both the prosecution and defense agreed: her forced abortion contributed to post-traumatic stress disorder.
Volume 4, Number 1, Winter 1996 Women Who Abort: Their Reflections on the Unborn A glimpse into the thoughts of aborting girls and women. The Choices We Make Jill’s story: “My boyfriend wanted nothing to do with me . . .” Volume 4, Numbers 2-3, Spring/Summer 1996 The John and Lorena Bobbitt Mystery, Unraveled […]