Help, Healing, Research, Education and Advocacy
by Amy R. Sobie Manda is serving time at a women’s prison in Coldwater, Michigan. This is her second imprisonment. Her life has been scarred by many traumatic events: placement in foster care at the age of six, marriage to an abusive husband at 15, an abortion, imprisonment. Yet behind prison walls, Manda has found […]
A Path to Hope: Illinois prison ministry helps inmates find freedom from the pain of abortion by Amy R. Sobie As director of the Women’s Pregnancy Center in Peoria, Illinois, Myfanwe Saunders had never thought about doing prison outreach. But a television interview with convicted murderer Carla Faye Tucker–who was executed by the state of […]
by Laurie Velker “. . . I was in prison and you came to visit Me.” — Matt. 25: 36(b) I had asked God many times to allow me the opportunity to minister behind prison walls. I didn’t know how He would open the door for me, but I never stopped asking Him. Then others […]
News Briefs Australian Woman Wins Landmark Abortion Case An Australian woman has created legal history in her country by winning a case against a hospital that she says failed to warn her about the psychological risks of abortion. “Ellen” settled out of court with the Royal Women’s Hospital and a Melbourne gynecologist for an undisclosed […]
Book Reviews Her Choice to Heal: Finding Spiritual and Emotional Peace After Abortion by Sydna Massé and Joan Phillips In Her Choice To Heal, Sydna Massé and Joan Phillipsgo step by step through recovery issues for women who are seeking emotional and spiritual healing after abortion. Using their personal experiences as a backdrop for each […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
by David C. Reardon, Ph.D. In order to expose the truth about the “morning after pill,” I would encourage state and federal legislators to consider a consumer protection law that would ensure that women receiving a prescription for “emergency contraceptives” are provided with a “plain language” explanation of how this hormonal therapy works. Before providing […]
News Briefs Mississippi May Seek Recovery of Medicaid Payments for Abortion-Related Injuries Pro-life activists in Mississippi have asked the state attorney general there to investigate why the state is paying for abortion-related injuries through Medicaid rather than requiring abortionists to foot the bill. In September, Right to Life of Jackson released a report documenting cases […]