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Didn’t former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop conclude that there are no psychological consequences from abortion? Actually, no. Dr. Koop was assigned by President Ronald Reagan to produce a report on the psychological impact of abortion on women. What Koop told the President is that he could not find any studies at that time […]
(An updated proposal and website dedicated to this issue can be viewed at www.ElliotInstitute.org/eugenics) MEMO Date: 9/15/97 From: David C. Reardon, Ph.D., Director To: Interested Parties Re: Extending a Cloning Ban to Include A Ban on All Genetic Engineering of Human Beings The Human Engineering Prohibition Act Clearly the cloning issue has attracted public attention […]
Tenth Anniversary of Bobbitt Mutilation Brings New Answers Springfield, IL (January 9, 2004) — Ten years ago, on January 10, 1994, Lorena Bobbitt went on trial for the “malicious wounding” of her husband’s penis with an eight-inch kitchen knife. After an eleven day trial, she was acquitted on grounds of temporary insanity. On the tenth […]
By David C. Reardon, Ph.D. Since 1980, mental health providers have begun treating an increasing number of women who are suffering mental and emotional difficulties as a result of induced abortions. The best available evidence indicates that on average there is a ten year period of denial during which women who were traumatized by their […]
“Kinder and Gentler” Pro-Life Leader Calls for Pro-Woman/Pro-Life Republican Platform Springfield, IL (March 20, 1996) An article in this week’s edition of NEWSWEEK magazine (March 25) reports that a new book by post-abortion expert Dr. David Reardon, director of the Springfield-based Elliot Institute, is helping to fashion a “kinder and gentler” anti-abortion movement. In his […]