Help, Healing, Research, Education and Advocacy
Case Study: Terri Hurst My story starts when I was 19. I had just moved out of my parents’ house, and broken up with my boyfriend. I felt so free! I started messing around with anyone and everyone who would take me home for the night. I soon found myself pregnant. Since I was living […]
In 1993, Dr. Wanda Franz, president of the National Right to Life Committee read a poem on NRLC’s radio program, “Pro-Life Perspectives,” that had first appeared in our own The Post-Abortion Review, Summer 1993. In a print ad for “Pro-Life Perspectives,” NRLC reports receiving the following letter in response to the poem: “When I first […]
by Cindy Hendrickson I was the only daughter of a doctor in Enid, OK. In August of 1971, when I was 16, I was born again at a Church of the Brethren church camp. During the last two years of highschool, I became angry at God for not giving me a guy who would love […]
by Theresa Karminski Burke, Ph.D. For ten years I’ve been counseling people traumatized by the effects of abortion. Only twice has someone’s father called me for help. The most recent was a man I will call Mr. Davis. (I’ve changed names to protect identities.) He asked me to help his daughter. “She needs counseling. Somebody […]
by David C. Reardon, Ph.D. Jackie lies motionless, incapable of smiling, or crying, or responding to a gentle touch. She is seemingly dead to all that is around her. Her doctor has diagnosed her as being in an irreversible “persistent vegetative state” (PVS). She is only a “vegetable.” Yet she breathes. She sleeps. She can […]
Lime5, Mark Crutcher, $19.95 Life Dynamics, P0 Box 2226, Denton, IX 76202; Orders: (817) 380-8800. Victims of Choice, Kevin Sherlock, $19.95 Brennyman Books, P0 Box 2629, Akron, OH 44309; Orders: (330) 882-4686. Abortion is inherently dangerous, both to the physical and psychological well-being of women. But these dangers are made worse by the fact that […]
by Victoria M. Thorn With over thirteen years of experience in post-abortion ministry, I continue to ask myself, “Who are the people who phone our office?” Their stories are so consistent-both in the pain they experience and in their feelings of abandonment. I believe we could better help these wounded people if we could better […]
Volume 5, Number 1, Winter 1997 The Wounded Generation Vicki Thorn examines the impact of abortion on the emotional makeup of Generation X. Book Reviews Dr. Reardon reviews Lime 5 by Mark Crutcher and Victims of Choice by Kevin Sherlock. Abortion and Suicide Are women who have had abortions more likely to commit suicide? […]
by Warren Williams Fathers become involved in an abortion in one of five ways: (1) they encourage or support the woman to choose abortion; (2) they pressure her to abort; (3) they abandon her to make the decision alone: (4) they unsuccessfully oppose the abortion; or (5) they learn about the abortion only after it […]
by David C. Reardon, Ph.D. In the early seventies, Arthur Shostak accompanied his lover to a well-groomed suburban abortion clinic. They had both agreed abortion was best. But sitting in the waiting room proved to be a “bruising experience.” By the time he left the clinic, he was shocked by about how deeply disturbed he […]