Help, Healing, Research, Education and Advocacy
Springfield, IL (June 23, 2003)– The evidence that abortion has negative effects on women, men, siblings, and society grows with every passing year. The most comprehensive and current resource for tracking the latest medical findings on abortion complications is the ongoing bibliography Detrimental Effects of Abortion: An Annotated Bibliography with Commentary. The 2003 supplement to […]
News Briefs US Reports on Forced Abortion in China, North Korea According to the Bush Administration’s annual report on human rights, published in April, both China and North Korea are engaging in coercive population control programs. The report notes that forced abortions and infanticide have been carried out in prisons in North Korea, and that […]
Springfield, Ill. (May 13, 2003) — Is abortion a benign experience for women? Or can it cause or contribute to emotional problems, even severe ones? The American Psychological Association (APA), which has consistently lobbied in favor of abortion rights, has frequently insisted that abortion is a benign experience that predominately brings relief to most women. […]
Study Links Depression with Abortion Researchers Call for More Studies on Emotional Risks of Abortion Springfield, Ill. (May 6, 2003)– Women with a history of abortion are at significantly higher risk of experiencing clinical depression compared to women who give birth, according to a nationally representative study of 1,884 women published in the latest issue […]
Vicki Thorn In the last few years, a radical shift has happened in the ministry of post-abortion healing. For many years, the average woman who came for help was five to ten years post-abortive and was between the ages of 25 and 35. Now contact is often made by women who are only months, days, […]
Study Reveals Abortion Leads to Feelings of Distress A survey of patients at a New York state abortion clinic found widespread feelings of emotional distress among women who have had abortions. The survey of 212 patients was conducted at Southern Tier Women’s Services in upstate New York over a period of four weeks. The results […]
By J. Kevin Burke When is a woman “ready” to seek the deeper healing of her abortion pain? When is it too soon? Are post-abortion healing programs “too intense” for women in the first weeks and months after abortion? In working with post-abortive women, one meets many women who are in an emotionally fragile state. […]
3/3/2003 Women with a prior history of abortion are twice as likely to use alcohol, five times more likely to use illicit drugs, and ten times more likely to use marijuana during the first pregnancy they carry to term compared to other women delivering their first pregnancies, according to a study published in this month’s […]
Traumatic Grief and Post-Abortion Trauma A New Diagnosis for Those Struggling After Abortion Dr. Pravin Thevathasan Post-abortion trauma has traditionally been proposed as a specific form of post-traumatic stress disorder by its proponents. The woman experiences the abortion event. There is then a latency period during which she appears to cope well. This is then […]
By Theresa Burke with David C. Reardon Note: The following is an excerpt from the book Forbidden Grief: The Unspoken Pain of Abortion. Christine had her first abortion at the age of 18. She was under treatment for mild depression, and her psychiatrist recommended abortion. Since this was before Roe, Christine was told that she […]