Help, Healing, Research, Education and Advocacy
Your Help is Needed to Document the Pain Two academic research groups, The Association for Interdisciplinary Research and the Elliot Institute for Social Sciences Research, have organized a national project to collect case studies documenting the negative impact of abortion on women, men, and relatives. The goal of this project is to collect tens of […]
Trying to Survive Case Study: Judith Evans When I became pregnant for the fifth time in seven years, my doctor asked me if I really thought I should “continue the pregnancy.” Abortion had never occurred to me until he suggested it. I’m a former foster child. Conceived illegitimately, my father was forced to marry my […]
Researchers Needed The Elliot Institute has several data sets available for use by qualified researchers. (See, for example, the last issue for a description of our random “Reproductive History Survey” which includes 58,906 data points.) We also have three other data sets available, plus over a thousand case study forms which are available for qualitative […]
From the Mail Bag “I would like to share with you a poem that I recently wrote. Actually God gave this poem to me in the middle of a night when I was really struggling because of the abortion. After writing it in a matter of minutes, I was able to sleep. God let me […]
by David C. Reardon In the 1960’s, when abortions were available only for “therapeutic” reasons, it was not uncommon for persons with the means and know-how to obtain an abortion on psychiatric grounds. In some states, all that was necessary was to find an agreeable psychiatrist willing to diagnose every woman with a problem pregnancy […]