Help, Healing, Research, Education and Advocacy
by Theresa Karminski Burke, Ph.D. I remember meeting Marita my freshman year in college. She was cute, like a cheerleader, and had the same dynamic, enthusiastic “rah rah” personality. Marita had boundless energy. She was fun to be around and had a self-assured style. At the same time, she was still very much a little […]
by David C. Reardon Stephanie Clark was only looking for a pair of her daughter’s pants when she opened the closet door. Imagine her surprise at finding a tiny newborn baby nestled in a blanket. “I screamed in surprise,” she later told reporters. “I called 911. They said, ‘Whose baby is it?’ I said, ‘I […]
Volume 6, Number 1, Winter 1998 Download Issue (pdf format) Contents: When the Doll Breaks Psychotherapist Dr. Theresa Karminski Burke uses the example of a college friend to decode the common anti-child behavior in our society. Abortion Trauma and Child Abuse Book Review Deeply Damaged: An Explanation for the Profound Problems Arising from Aborting Babies […]
From the Mail Bag Dear Sir, I am on the line with pro-life actions. Thus speaking and distributing papers and pamphlets against abortion. I co-ordinate more education lessons on abortion. I am very interested to hear of you and wish to request your free tape (Ending Abortion With Compassion). Please, I will also appreciate for […]
by David C. Reardon, Ph.D. Population control advocates insist that expanded access to abortion is essential to improving the status and health of women throughout the world. Indeed, this message was tirelessly promoted by Hillary Clinton and U.S. officials at a long series of recent U.N. conferences dealing with population growth and women’s rights. Pro-lifers […]
Case Study: “Peggy Brue” I had just graduated from high school and got in with the wrong crowd. There was just so much pressure at that time to be accepted in some kind of social group. I was quite a rebellious teenager and so people that did weird things (drugs, hippies, LSD era) really attracted […]
by David C. Reardon, Ph.D. Note: This article originally appeared in The Post-Abortion Review, Fall 1997. Population control advocates insist that expanded access to abortion is essential to improving the status and health of women throughout the world. Indeed, this message was tirelessly promoted by Hillary Clinton and U.S. officials at a long series of […]
by David C. Reardon, Ph.D. Child development theorists describe three levels of moral development. At the lowest level is concern only for oneself. The second level is concern only for those close to you: family, friends, or a suffering person whom you can see. The third level is an abstract moral concern for all others, […]
By David C. Reardon, Ph.D. Editor’s Note: In previous issues of The Post-Abortion Review(Spring 1995 and Fall 1995) we examined the role of despair in driving women and men toward choosing abortion and then in holding them back from healing after an abortion. I have been reminded by readers that I had promised at that […]
by David C. Reardon, Ph.D. Twenty-five years of abortion on demand is something to mourn, and certainly many pro-life groups plan to do just that during the 25th anniversary of Roe v. Wade this coming January. By emphasizing a mourning attitude, however, we may only be adding fuel to the pro-abortion media’s efforts to portray […]