Help, Healing, Research, Education and Advocacy
12/3/2015 By Deana Schroeder “She asked for it.” That is how a 17-year-old boy responded when confronted with the rape of an 8-year-old girl. At 8 years old. “She asked for it!” The words ring in my head. Most eight-year-old girls don’t know about sex. Certainly, not enough to ask for it. However, that is […]
8/4/15 A 14-year-old girl in India who is 25 weeks pregnant as a result of rape is due to to undergo an abortion, the Straits Times is reporting: The father of the girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, claims she became pregnant in February after her doctor injected her with sedatives and then […]
7/30/15 Susan W. Enouen, P.E. Note: This week Health Canada approved Mifepristone (also known as the abortion pill or RU-486) for use in Canada. The following article from 2010, reprinted with permission from Life Issues Institute, sheds light on why this decision will lead to further exploitation and harm for Canadian women. RU-486, the abortion […]
By Deana Schroeder Note: The following is a guest post from a member of the Ad Hoc Committee of Women Pregnant By Sexual Assault (WPSA). I’ve been there. I was 17, drugged and raped. When I learned I was pregnant, my family, counselors, and doctors took control. They intended the best. They wanted to help me. […]
Provision to to Pay for Abortions Remains in Military Funding Bill House and Senate negotiators working on a Defense Department budget bill have agreed to keep a provision that would authorize the military to pay for abortions for women who become pregnant as a result of rape or incest, it is being reported. The provision, […]
