Help, Healing, Research, Education and Advocacy
by David C. Reardon, Ph.D. Sit with me for a moment in the waiting room of an abortion clinic. Here you will find women who, in general, are neither philosophers nor fools–categories which admittedly include substantial overlap. Very few of these women have engaged in arcane debates about the meaning of “personhood.” Fewer still are […]
Case Study: “Jill Nolan” I was still 19 when I got pregnant living with a boyfriend (who is soon to be my ex-husband) in Detroit. Suddenly I was faced with “the CHOICE”. How I’d wished I could’ve been like the wholesome looking mother-to-be on the T.V. commercials. The one with a cute maternity dress and […]
Volume 4, Number 1, Winter 1996 Women Who Abort: Their Reflections on the Unborn A glimpse into the thoughts of aborting girls and women. The Choices We Make Jill’s story: “My boyfriend wanted nothing to do with me . . .” Volume 4, Numbers 2-3, Spring/Summer 1996 The John and Lorena Bobbitt Mystery, Unraveled […]
News Briefs Man Convicted for Not Being an Abortionist Commenting on the conviction of Roger Johnson for the first-degree murder of his 19-year-old girlfriend Patrice Phelps and the second-degree murder of their seven-month-old unborn child, Life Dynamics’ newsletter Life Activist observes: “Apparently Mr. Johnson’s crime was that he didn’t have a medical degree. After all, […]
Despair vs Hope, Part Two Restoring Hope, Finding Forgiveness by David C. Reardon, Ph.D. In part one of this two-part series, “The Devil’s Bargain” (Spring 1995), we examined the role of despair in the lives of women before and after an abortion. We observed that most women who choose abortion feel trapped by their circumstances […]