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Case Study: Terri Hurst My story starts when I was 19. I had just moved out of my parents’ house, and broken up with my boyfriend. I felt so free! I started messing around with anyone and everyone who would take me home for the night. I soon found myself pregnant. Since I was living […]
In 1993, Dr. Wanda Franz, president of the National Right to Life Committee read a poem on NRLC’s radio program, “Pro-Life Perspectives,” that had first appeared in our own The Post-Abortion Review, Summer 1993. In a print ad for “Pro-Life Perspectives,” NRLC reports receiving the following letter in response to the poem: “When I first […]
by David C. Reardon, Ph.D. Child development theorists describe three levels of moral development. At the lowest level is concern only for oneself. The second level is concern only for those close to you: family, friends, or a suffering person whom you can see. The third level is an abstract moral concern for all others, […]
By David C. Reardon, Ph.D. Editor’s Note: In previous issues of The Post-Abortion Review(Spring 1995 and Fall 1995) we examined the role of despair in driving women and men toward choosing abortion and then in holding them back from healing after an abortion. I have been reminded by readers that I had promised at that […]
by David C. Reardon, Ph.D. Twenty-five years of abortion on demand is something to mourn, and certainly many pro-life groups plan to do just that during the 25th anniversary of Roe v. Wade this coming January. By emphasizing a mourning attitude, however, we may only be adding fuel to the pro-abortion media’s efforts to portray […]