Help, Healing, Research, Education and Advocacy
By David C. Reardon, Ph.D. There is an important connection between violence in the womb and violence in the home. Certainly not every abortion leads to domestic violence, nor is every case of domestic violence rooted in the trauma of a prior abortion. But it is not a coincidence that the rates of abortion and […]
Life has been particularly hectic since the publication of Making Abortion Rare in January of this year. I have done more than fifty radio interviews, plus a television interview on NET, a leading cable station for conservative political views. The biggest public relations plum, so far, was a feature article in Newsweek, March 25, page […]
By David Reardon Lorena Bobbitt’s abortion was unwanted. It violated her moral beliefs and signified the destruction of her dream to have a family just like the one in which she had grown up. It was an attack on her self-identity and her maternal self. By understanding how her abortion traumatized Lorena, we can understand […]
Case Study: “Jill Nolan” I was still 19 when I got pregnant living with a boyfriend (who is soon to be my ex-husband) in Detroit. Suddenly I was faced with “the CHOICE”. How I’d wished I could’ve been like the wholesome looking mother-to-be on the T.V. commercials. The one with a cute maternity dress and […]
by David C. Reardon, Ph.D. Sit with me for a moment in the waiting room of an abortion clinic. Here you will find women who, in general, are neither philosophers nor fools–categories which admittedly include substantial overlap. Very few of these women have engaged in arcane debates about the meaning of “personhood.” Fewer still are […]