Help, Healing, Research, Education and Advocacy
A Bittersweet Healing Case Study – “Jane” It may be hard for some to believe, but it is comforting for me to know that Moses, King David, and St. Paul all started out as murderers. You can call me Jane. That’s not my real name. Extreme shame keeps me anonymous. I had an abortion when […]
Volume 11, Number 1, January-March 2003 Download Issue (pdf format) Contents: Traumatic Grief and Post-Abortion Trauma A New Diagnosis for Those Struggling After Abortion Dr. Pravin Thevathasan Research Links Abortion and Substance Abuse During Pregnancy A Healing Model for Newly Aborted Women Vicki Thorn Is It Ever “Too Soon” for Post-Abortion Healing? J. Kevin Burke […]
“God Has Been Calling You” In 1982 I had an abortion. I wish I could say I was pressured into it by my family or by the father. But I wasn’t. My pressure was my fear and shame. For me abortion was the only option. To get through it, I clung to the belief that […]
IVF, Mass Production and Coercion David C. Reardon Multifetal pregnancy reduction (MFPR) is recommended by the practitioners of artificial reproduction methods on the grounds that it is necessary to safeguard the health of the mother and surviving children. As with other abortion procedures, however, there is little, if any, evidence that this procedure actually attains […]
Infertility Treatments and the Problem of “Multifetal Pregnancy Reduction” Elizabeth Ring-Cassidy and Ian Gentles Just as reproductive technologies have changed obstetrical practice, so too have they led to a type of abortion which affects a different population of pregnant women from those who do not want to be pregnant. These women have waited and planned […]
News Briefs Study: Couples Who Pay for IVF Get More Embryos A New England Journal of Medicine study shows that couples whose health insurance covers in vitro fertilization are less likely to become pregnant than those who pay for it themselves. Couples in the study who paid for IVF themselves had more embryos implanted at […]
Pull the Abortion Pill! Pro-Life Groups Petition FDA to Shelve RU-486 Pending “Full and Objective” Review Calling on the government to protect the health of American women, groups representing women and medical professionals have petitioned the Food and Drug Administration to suspend distribution of the abortion pill RU-486–also known as Mifeprex–pending a full review of […]
Population control advocates insist that expanded access to abortion is essential to improving the status and health of women throughout the world. Pro-lifers, on the other hand, are obviously opposed to any effort to expand abortion access around the world. Many proponents of population control honestly believe that such efforts will expand the rights of […]
Learning to Accept Healing Case Study: I was 14 years old, the middle child of nine, and lost in the confusion and shuffle of parents trying to raise four teenagers older than me during the 1970’s. I was accepted to a prestigious private high school, two city bus rides away from home. Going from the […]
One Man’s Story Abortion affects every life it touches . . . and for many, it hurts. I know. This is my story. I was raised in a family that was thoroughly pro-abortion. We didn’t just believe in the idea of a woman’s “right to choose;” except in perfect situations, we believed that abortion was […]