Help, Healing, Research, Education and Advocacy
Guest Column This article originally appeared on the Alliance of Pro-Life Students (U.K.) blog and is reprinted with permission. I’ve learned that the word ‘choice’ is often the last word a woman in a crisis pregnancy feels applies to her when she’s looking for an abortion. As I put down my mobile having spoken to […]
By Theresa Bonopartis Every month, I get at least 15 new women and men looking for help regarding a past abortion. It is heart breaking to hear the anguish they are going through, but I know there is hope of healing, and so we connect them with people and places that will be able to […]
By Theresa Bonopartis A recent anonymous post, “I Owe My Life to My Mother’s Abortion,” on The Huffington Post Women website, reflected the common feelings and conflicts of those who have lost a sibling to abortion. As counselors, we see the complex thoughts and feelings surrounding the knowledge of a sibling’s termination just coming to […]
Research, Stories Highlight Plight of Men Who Want to Support Their Partners and Unborn Children Men have no legal say when it comes to abortion, and often little opportunity to support their partners and unborn children. Men and teenage boys who don’t want the abortion may be silenced, left out of the discussion, or be […]
By Theresa Bonopartis I can certainly tell you what a coerced abortion feels like. I remember it as clearly as if it happened yesterday. I was a pregnant teenager kicked out of the house, isolated and alone. Nowhere to go, no one to help, no money, no job, nothing. I remember the desperation , feeling […]