Help, Healing, Research, Education and Advocacy
Stotland Moves by David C. Reardon, Ph.D. In 1992, the Journal of the American Medical Association published a commentary by psychiatrist Nada Stotland entitled “The Myth of Abortion Trauma Syndrome.” In her commentary Stotland emphatically insisted that post-abortion trauma “does not exist.” While her arguments for this absolutist position were strained and inconsistent with the […]
By Connie Nykiel “Sorrow makes us all children again.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson I teach childbirth education to pregnant teenagers. My job is to prepare young parents for parenthood. This includes the possibility of parenting a baby with a birth defect or being the parent of a baby that is miscarried, stillborn, or dies soon after […]
Volume 7, Number 1, 1999 Download Issue (pdf format) Contents: The Benediction of Kate Michelman A case study on coping with post-abortion trauma. No One Told Me I Could Cry Tiffany’s story: “I begged her not to make me get an abortion. No one listened to me.” Stotland Moves Pro-choice psychiatrist softens her position. Book […]
Our Greatest Need He knew we longed for peace, but He did not come as a general. He knew we longed for unity, but He did not come as a politician. He knew we longed for wealth, but He did not come as an economist. He knew we longed for knowledge, but He did not […]
Dear Dr. Reardon, I was surprised and pleased to see your article in the recent Post-Abortion Review concerning how parental notification/judicial bypass hearings are conducted. I believe it is the first discussion I have seen on this most important point. It is a shame and quite unfair that these hearings are merely one-sided and give […]
