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Volume 13, Number 1, January-March 2005 Download Issue (pdf format) Contents: Supreme Court Refuses to Hear McCorvey Case Trauma Symptoms Common After Abortion 64 Percent of Women Report Feeling Pressured Into Abortion Recent Research A Fact Sheet Showing Abortion’s Harm to Women (note: for a more updated fact sheet, click here) When the Freedom to […]
Elliot Institute 2004 Year End Report Through your support, we have been blessed during the last year to have accomplished the following major activities: We published a 54-page pocket guide, Reversing the Gender Gap, for pro-life politicians who want to articulate concern for women hurt by abortion. It was praised by one politician as “the […]
A Need for Compassion Case Study: Susan S. I need your compassion, as do many other women like me. I am a post-abortion woman. At the age of 54, I am finally confronting the damage that three abortions have done to me. I was one of the lucky ones: I did not suffer any physical […]
Federal Court Points Way to Protecting Women’s Rights By Overturning Roe New Facts Must Be Backed by New Legislative Effort The efforts of Norma McCorvey, the “Roe” of the 1973 Roe v. Wade case that legalized abortions, to have that landmark decision reversed has taken two steps forward and one step back with the recent […]
Concurring Opinion of Judge Edith H. Jones McCorvey v. Hill, Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, Sept. 14, 2004 Editor’s Note: references and footnotes have been omitted. I agree that Ms. McCorvey’s Rule 60(b) case is now moot. A judicial decision in her favor cannot turn back Texas’s legislative clock to reinstate the laws, no longer […]
New Facts Must be Backed by New Legislative Effort (October 21, 2004) – The effort of Norma McCorvey, the “Roe” of the 1973 Roe v. Wade case that legalized abortions, to have that landmark decision reversed has taken two steps forward and one step back. In the course of these events, a recent federal appeals […]
So Grateful That I Lived Case Study: “Julia” I had my first abortion when I was 26 years old. I was married at the time to a successful chiropractor. We had two young children, a boy and a girl, ages four and two. You wouldn’t think I would be a candidate for an abortion; we […]
Abortion Only Compounds the Trauma, Women Say A group of women who have experienced pregnancies resulting from rape or incest are petitioning Congress and state legislatures to hear their stories, saying women who become pregnant from sexual assault don’t want or need abortions. The petition from the Ad Hoc Committee of Women Pregnant by Sexual […]
Pro-life Politicians Armed with New Pro-Woman Facts and Arguments Resource Kit Includes Poll Results, Coerced Abortions Report, and Solid Answers to Hard Questions Springfield, IL (Aug 23, 2004) — A recent nationally representative opinion poll (+/- 4 percentage points) has found that 86 percent of American adults believe significant emotional problems after an abortion are […]
Women Who’ve Been Pregnant Through Sexual Assault Plead For Public Hearings SPRINGFIELD, IL (June 23, 2004)– A group of women who have experienced pregnancies resulting from rape or incest are petitioning Congress and state legislatures to hear their stories, saying women who become pregnant from sexual assault don’t want or need abortions. The […]