Help, Healing, Research, Education and Advocacy
We hope that by now you have received your copy of Hope and Healing, our new 12-page newspaper insert on post-abortion healing. This project has taken many months of hard work and involved consultation with many generous people. If you haven’t already done so, please take some time to read it. I think you will […]
Incest Case Exposes Shortcomings of Judicial and Medical Reviews of Abortion Cases By David C. Reardon, Ph.D. On July 17th, 1998, a Michigan judge issued a temporary restraining order blocking the parents of a 12-year-old girl from transporting her to Kansas for a late-term partial-birth abortion. The girl was 28 weeks pregnant and had allegedly […]
News Briefs Arizona Abortionist Loses License After Two Botched Abortions An Arizona abortionist who has been involved in two botched abortions has had his license revoked, the Arizona Board of Medical Examiners said earlier this month. John Biskind, 72, agreed to give up his license rather than face a continuing investigation. Authorities began investigating Biskind […]
The National Center of Continuing Education announces a new home study course for nurses called Beyond Grief: Strategies and Interventions for Abortion Aftermath. Nurses can earn six continuing education credits by completing this program. Written by Rosemary Benefield RN, MA, MPC, the director of Rachel’s Hope Post-Abortion Healing and Reconciliation Workshops in San Diego, Beyond […]
by Amy R. Sobie More than 80 women and men from 27 states gathered in St. Louis, Mo., on August 7th and 8th for the first national conference of Women at Risk, a national coalition of women and families injured by abortion. At the conference, participants discussed the goals and strategies of Women at Risk […]