Help, Healing, Research, Education and Advocacy
Vicki Thorn In the last few years, a radical shift has happened in the ministry of post-abortion healing. For many years, the average woman who came for help was five to ten years post-abortive and was between the ages of 25 and 35. Now contact is often made by women who are only months, days, […]
Study Reveals Abortion Leads to Feelings of Distress A survey of patients at a New York state abortion clinic found widespread feelings of emotional distress among women who have had abortions. The survey of 212 patients was conducted at Southern Tier Women’s Services in upstate New York over a period of four weeks. The results […]
By J. Kevin Burke When is a woman “ready” to seek the deeper healing of her abortion pain? When is it too soon? Are post-abortion healing programs “too intense” for women in the first weeks and months after abortion? In working with post-abortive women, one meets many women who are in an emotionally fragile state. […]
3/3/2003 Women with a prior history of abortion are twice as likely to use alcohol, five times more likely to use illicit drugs, and ten times more likely to use marijuana during the first pregnancy they carry to term compared to other women delivering their first pregnancies, according to a study published in this month’s […]
Traumatic Grief and Post-Abortion Trauma A New Diagnosis for Those Struggling After Abortion Dr. Pravin Thevathasan Post-abortion trauma has traditionally been proposed as a specific form of post-traumatic stress disorder by its proponents. The woman experiences the abortion event. There is then a latency period during which she appears to cope well. This is then […]