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Post-Abortive Women To Overturn Roe v Wade Springfield, IL (May 3 2001)–The Elliot Institute has joined a national effort to give post-abortive women a voice in the federal courts. According to Dr. David Reardon, director of the Elliot Institute and a nationally recognized expert on post-abortion complications, “This is a great opportunity, through legal affidavits, […]
There Is No Such Thing As a Safe Abortion New Book Documents the Dangers of Abortion Springfield, IL (April 14, 2001)– “Keep abortion safe and legal.” These words are often seen and heard at this time of year, when pro-life and pro-abortion activists mark the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that […]
7/26/2000 Women’s Mental Health Declines After Abortion While Childbirth Helps Springfield, IL (July 26 2000 )– Women who undergo abortions are at greater risk for mental health problems in subsequent years, according to a new study presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Society (APS) held this June in Miami Beach, Florida. The […]
Springfield, IL (June 4, 2000) — A woman becomes pregnant during a rape. Elsewhere, a 12-year-old incest victim is six months pregnant. Is abortion in such cases necessary or even helpful? Not according to a new survey of 192 women who became pregnant through sexual assault and either had abortions or carried term. Instead, the […]
Springfield, IL (May 4, 2000)– A recent government funded study in Finland shows that women who abort are approximately four times more likely to die in the following year than women who carry their pregnancies to term. In addition, women who carry to term are only half as likely to die as women who were […]