Year: 1999

How To Put Compassion In Pro-Life Politics

Politics How To Put Compassion In Pro-Life Politics “Kinder and Gentler” Pro-Life Leader Calls for Pro-Woman/Pro-Life Republican Platform Beyond the Politics of AbortionContents Page of Making Abortion Rare with links to entire selected chapters! Legislation Check out these pages for legislative proposal that promote a truly pro-woman, pro-life society! Model Bills The Protection from High […]

Limitations on Post-Abortion Research: Why We Know So Little

David C. Reardon , Ph.D. While there have been many studies regarding the emotional aftermath of abortion, very little has been firmly established. It is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to complete a study in this field that would be generally conclusive and above reproach. Among other complications, (1) the cooperation of the study population […]

What Dr. Koop Could Have Reported

What Dr. Koop Could Have Reported David C. Reardon While it is true that there was not, and still isn’t, any solid data for making any accurate estimate of how many women suffer from post-abortion psychological sequelae, there were three specific findings (readily substantiated by the literature available at that time) upon which to build […]

Revisiting the Koop Report

Revisiting the “Koop Report” David C. Reardon, Ph.D. What do Dr. C. Everett Koop and Dr. Henry Foster have in common? As nominees for the post of the U.S. Surgeon General, both have been through grueling confirmation hearings which were deeply concerned with two key questions: 1) Is abortion a legitimate form of medicine? and […]

JAMA GYMNASTICS: Jumping Through Hoops to Prove Abortion is Safe

By David C. Reardon, Ph.D. The American Medical Association has long supported legal abortion. Indeed, since 1972, the AMA’s amicus briefs to the Supreme Court have generously provided Justice Harry Blackmun and his cohorts with a “medical” justification for abortion on demand. The crux of this “medical” justification is the claim that abortion is “safe” […]

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