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The following is excerpted from the book Aborted Women, Silent No More: Twenty Women Share Their Personal Journeys from the Tragedy of Abortion to Restored Wholeness by David C. Reardon. Since the mid-1960s, abortion has been a major national issue, the subject of state and Congressional investigations, thousands of articles, and hundreds of books. But […]
By Dr. Priscilla Coleman Over the past few days there has been a great deal of press concerning a peer-reviewed article I published in 2009 with co-authors Dr. Catherine Coyle, Dr. Vincent Rue, and Dr. Martha Shuping in the Journal of Psychiatric Research. The analyses in this paper employed data from the National Comorbidity Survey […]
Guest Opinion by Theresa Bonopartis Salon.com, an online magazine, recently published an article “Why Women Have Second Trimester Abortions” by Irin Carmon. As a woman who had a second trimester abortion I found it inaccurate and, to be frank, downright offensive. Ms. Carmon begins with the line, “Despite thumb sucking fetuses you see waved around […]
Response to Critics Published in Leading Medical Journal After several months’ delay, a leading medical journal has published a letter by Elliot Institute director Dr. David Reardon in response to recent ad hominem attacks by abortion advocates attempting to deny a link between abortion and mental health problems in women. The criticism began last fall […]
An “apples vs. oranges” comparison of dissimilar data sets is being used to promote the lie that abortion is safer than childbirth. Meanwhile, pristine record-linkage studies proving the opposite are being ignored.
