Help, Healing, Research, Education and Advocacy
By “Colleen,” age 28 I was 18 and dating a man my parents strongly disapproved of. So they “made a deal” with me: they would send me to college if I would break up with him. I agreed, though I never really meant to keep my end of the bargain. I realized I was pregnant […]
“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 […]
Federal Jurisdiction Over Disclosure Standard for Abortion It is possible that virtually everything in our model bill could be adapted to federal legislation on the following grounds: (1) Abortion involves interstate commerce, not only do women cross borders, so do abortionists. There is also advertising across state borders; (2) Abortion has been enshrined as a […]
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By David C. Reardon, Ph.D. Abortion advocates claim that the right to abort unplanned pregnancies empowers women. They view unplanned children as the cause of lost education and career opportunities. Abortion, they claim, enables women to control their lives, pursue their dreams, and ultimately improve their socio-economic status. But this argument presupposes that the birth […]