Help, Healing, Research, Education and Advocacy
A Time to Grieve, A Time to Heal Theresa Burke with David C. Reardon Maura entered therapy for depression and anxiety. At 32 years of age, she had battled cancer for four years. Her eyes, swollen from tears, seemed permanently reddened by the profound ache of her grief and loss. The chemotherapy and radiation treatments […]
Learning to Trust “Julia Winters” In July of 1996, I got pregnant after a year of dating my now ex-boyfriend. I was very happy with the news that I was going to be a mom. I’ve always loved children; I think they are the best thing that can ever happen to someone. But when I […]
Mind Games: The Use and Misuse of Defense Mechanisms An Excerpt from the Book “Forbidden Grief” Theresa Burke With David C. Reardon “Buried emotions are like rejected people; they make us pay a high price for having rejected them.” –Rev. John Powell There once was a woman who discovered a corroded pipe in her basement. […]
Volume 10, Number 1, January-March 2002 Download Issue (pdf format) Contents: Long Term Depression Linked to Abortion New study published in the British Medical Journal Mind Games: The Use and Misuse of Defense Mechanisms News Briefs Abortionist Loses Civil Suit in Abortion Death; Man Seeks New Trial in Forced Abortion Death; Man Charged in Abortion […]
Always Two Melanie Fyock The mother and child logo shown here was inspired by Dr. David Reardon’s book, Making Abortion Rare.It was created to represent the tragic fact that abortion always has two victims, because you cannot hurt the child without hurting the mother. The two are one and can only be separated by doing […]
An Introduction to Forbidden Grief Theresa Burke with David C. Reardon As a young graduate student, I was assigned to lead a weekly support group for women with eating disorders. It was there that I first observed how abortion is a forbidden grief. It all began with Debbie. She cautiously and fearfully confided to the […]
News Briefs U.S. Senate Recognizes Need for Research on Post-Abortion Syndrome During consideration of the Labor and Health and Human Services Appropriations bill for 2002, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed a resolution expressing the belief that the National Institutes of Health should expand and intensify its research and related activities regarding post-abortion depression and psychosis. […]
On the Road to Healing Case Study Testimony Kari L. I had an abortion when I was 17 years old. I was the youngest in the family and no one ever expected that I would become pregnant so soon. My family was disappointed in me. My mother was sad, but willing to help me at […]
The Awakening of African Americans Peggy Lehner Recently I was asked to participate in a debate on abortion at an African American conference. The invitation came from the conference director, who had heard me speaking on a local black radio station about the prevalence of abortion in the black community. My opponent was to be […]
The Hard Truth vs. The Soft Sell As Rachel MacNair points out in the preceding article (see “Focusing on Hope,” from this issue) most people would rather ignore the abortion issue than face up to the moral judgement it implies on us as a nation. As she succinctly stated: “For nearly three decades the pro-life […]