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“God Has Been Calling You” In 1982 I had an abortion. I wish I could say I was pressured into it by my family or by the father. But I wasn’t. My pressure was my fear and shame. For me abortion was the only option. To get through it, I clung to the belief that […]
Population control advocates insist that expanded access to abortion is essential to improving the status and health of women throughout the world. Pro-lifers, on the other hand, are obviously opposed to any effort to expand abortion access around the world. Many proponents of population control honestly believe that such efforts will expand the rights of […]
Elliot Institute Research Has Major Implications For Women’s Health, Abortion Politics A study published in the August edition of the Southern Medical Journal reveals that women who have abortions are at significantly higher risk of death than women who give birth. Researchers examined death records linked to Medi-Cal payments for births and abortions for approximately […]
News Briefs Man Gets Life Sentence in Abortion/Murder Case A Pennsylvania man has been sentenced to life in prison for setting a bomb that killed his pregnant ex-girlfriend and her children because she refused to have an abortion. Police said Joseph Mienerd, 48, had threatened to kill his girlfriend, Deena Mitts, and that on New […]
Elliot Institute Study Shows Higher Treatment Rates Persist Over Four Years Six months after her abortion, Jane had a mental breakdown. When she later delivered a healthy son, unresolved grief over her abortion contributed to severe post-partum psychosis. “I remember wanting to throw him out the window of the hospital room,” she later told her […]