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Major Resources Making Abortion RareA Healing Strategy for a Divided Nation Examines the importance of post-abortion healing and research to ending the abortion controversy. Price: $14.95 plus shipping. The Jericho PlanBreaking Down the Walls Which Prevent Post-Abortion Healing Discusses spiritual aspects related to abortion and how to promote post-abortion healing, […]
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 […]
Ad Hominem Attacks, Guilt by Association, Shifting Standards, Avoiding Simple Truths A Commentary by David C. Reardon, Ph.D. The abortion and mental health controversy shifted into high gear following the recent publication in The British Journal of Psychiatry of a meta-analysis review that combined results of 22 studies and reported that women who have abortions are 81 […]
Beverly McMillan, M.D. Dr. Beverly McMillan is an ob/gyn. In 1975, she became the first woman to open an abortion clinic in Mississippi. She ceased doing abortions in 1978 when she became convinced that the abortions she was performing were causing everyone involved far more harm than good. What are the physical complications of abortion? […]
Biographical Sketch David C. Reardon, Ph.D. David C. Reardon, Ph.D., director of the Elliot Institute, is widely recognized as one of the leading experts on the aftereffects of pregnancy loss on women. He is the author of numerous books and popular and scholarly articles on this topic, including the most comprehensive summary of the medical […]
Books Available from Acorn Books Giving Sorrow Words: Women’s Stories of Grief After Abortion Journalist and women’s rights advocate Melinda Tankard Reist draws on women’s own stories to examine the social, familial, and coercive pressures that lead to abortions, many of which are unwanted. She also shows how these women’s stories often go unheard […]
A Survey of WEBA Members The following material is taken from Appendix Two of Aborted Women: Silent No More by David C. Reardon (Loyola University Press, 1987) For a more complete discussion of the survey findings, plus a review of other literature on the topic and testimonies from some of the survey participants, see Aborted […]
Following a previous survey focusing on the reasons women have abortions (published in Aborted Women, Silent No More, results here) the following survey was developed to look more carefully at the specific emotional reactions to abortion. The following results are also published in Forbidden Grief: The Unspoken Pain of Abortion. This survey instrument was distributed […]