Help, Healing, Research, Education and Advocacy
Great news from the Center Against Forced Abortions (CAFA): Recently, the Alliance Defense Fund contacted us on behalf of a young girl in Kansas who was trying to help a girl being forced by her parents to have an abortion. We immediately contacted the girl who turned out to be the sister of the baby’s […]
Survey Finds Most Women Pregnant From Sexual Assault Don’t Want Abortions; Say It Adds to Trauma There has been very little research conducted to date on the experiences of women who became pregnant as a result of rape or incest. One survey was conducted by the Elliot Institute for our book, Victims and Victors: Speaking […]
Giving Sorrow Words Women’s Stories of Grief After Abortion by Melinda Tankard Reist “I wish someone had said, ‘There would be losses having a baby, but don’t underestimate the loss of having an abortion.’” -Lee Abortion has been presented as a simple procedure that allows women to put the crisis of an unintended pregnancy behind […]
By “Denise Kalasky” I am a victim of incest; one of the “hard cases” for abortion. I was raped by my father when I was fifteen years old. It was not the first time, nor would it be the last. However, this time, I became pregnant. One night, I became very sick and my […]