Help, Healing, Research, Education and Advocacy
A Path to Hope: Illinois prison ministry helps inmates find freedom from the pain of abortion by Amy R. Sobie As director of the Women’s Pregnancy Center in Peoria, Illinois, Myfanwe Saunders had never thought about doing prison outreach. But a television interview with convicted murderer Carla Faye Tucker–who was executed by the state of […]
by Amy R. Sobie Manda is serving time at a women’s prison in Coldwater, Michigan. This is her second imprisonment. Her life has been scarred by many traumatic events: placement in foster care at the age of six, marriage to an abusive husband at 15, an abortion, imprisonment. Yet behind prison walls, Manda has found […]
Notes on the Public and Personal Exchange of Views on the Psychological Effects of Abortion Between Nada Stotland and David Reardon In 1992, the Journal of the American Medical Association published a commentary by psychiatrist Nada Stotland, entitled “The Myth of Abortion Trauma Syndrome.” In her commentary Stotland, chair of the Department of Psychiatry and […]
When the Doll Breaks Theresa Karminski Burke I remember meeting Marita my freshman year in college. She was cute, like a cheerleader, and had the same dynamic, enthusiastic “rah rah” personality. Marita had boundless energy. She was fun to be around and had a self-assured style. At the same time, she was still very much […]
By Connie Nykiel “Sorrow makes us all children again.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson I teach childbirth education to pregnant teenagers. My job is to prepare young parents for parenthood. This includes the possibility of parenting a baby with a birth defect or being the parent of a baby that is miscarried, stillborn, or dies soon after […]
