Help, Healing, Research, Education and Advocacy
Case Study: Terri Hurst My story starts when I was 19. I had just moved out of my parents’ house, and broken up with my boyfriend. I felt so free! I started messing around with anyone and everyone who would take me home for the night. I soon found myself pregnant. Since I was living […]
In 1993, Dr. Wanda Franz, president of the National Right to Life Committee read a poem on NRLC’s radio program, “Pro-Life Perspectives,” that had first appeared in our own The Post-Abortion Review, Summer 1993. In a print ad for “Pro-Life Perspectives,” NRLC reports receiving the following letter in response to the poem: “When I first […]
by Cindy Hendrickson I was the only daughter of a doctor in Enid, OK. In August of 1971, when I was 16, I was born again at a Church of the Brethren church camp. During the last two years of highschool, I became angry at God for not giving me a guy who would love […]
by Theresa Karminski Burke, Ph.D. For ten years I’ve been counseling people traumatized by the effects of abortion. Only twice has someone’s father called me for help. The most recent was a man I will call Mr. Davis. (I’ve changed names to protect identities.) He asked me to help his daughter. “She needs counseling. Somebody […]
by David C. Reardon, Ph.D. Jackie lies motionless, incapable of smiling, or crying, or responding to a gentle touch. She is seemingly dead to all that is around her. Her doctor has diagnosed her as being in an irreversible “persistent vegetative state” (PVS). She is only a “vegetable.” Yet she breathes. She sleeps. She can […]