Help, Healing, Research, Education and Advocacy
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 […]
Stotland Moves by David C. Reardon, Ph.D. 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 emphatically insisted that post-abortion trauma “does not exist.” While her arguments for this absolutist position were strained and inconsistent with the […]
News Briefs Arizona Abortionist Charged In Woman’s Death In a follow up to a case we reported on in the Summer 1998 issue of The Post-Abortion Review, Arizona abortionist John Biskind has been charged with manslaughter in the case of a woman who bled to death after Biskind performed an abortion on her. Also included […]
As president of the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARAL), Kate Michelman is one of the most powerful pro-abortion “feminists” in the nation. Defending abortion is more than Michelman’s job. It is her passion. In defending the “right of women to choose,” she is first and foremost defending the choice that she made […]
