Help, Healing, Research, Education and Advocacy
Volume 2, Number 1, Winter 1993 Before I Had Time to Think A testimony of abortion after date rape pregnancy: “I realize that I was going through almost classic Post-Abortion Syndrome. Rape, Incest & Abortion: Searching Beyond the Myths Why abortion isn’t the answer in these “hard cases.” Accomplices in Incest One fifteen-year-old’s story of […]
Before I Had Time to Think by “Nancy Anders” It was May 19, 1973. I was pregnant from a date rape. I had tried to hide it from my parents but of course they found out. Then the pressure started. “How are you going to go to college with a baby?” “How are you going […]
Accomplices in Incest Case Study: “Doris Kalasky” I am a victim of incest; one of the “hard cases” for abortion. I was raped by my father when I was fifteen years old. It was not the first time, nor would it be the last. However, this time, I became pregnant. One night, I became very […]
Volume 1, Number 1, Winter 1993 Elliot Institute’s 1992 Year-End Report Reproductive History Survey Moves Forward Progress of survey comparing a random sample of women who’ve had abortions to women who haven’t. Elliot Institute’s Voice Heard at the Supreme Court Elliot Institute files an amicus brief for the Supreme Court’s review of Planned Parenthood v. […]
Looking for Advice in All the Wrong Places Case Study: “Colleen” I was 18 and dating a man my parents strongly disapproved of. So they “made a deal” with me: they would send me to college if I would break up with him. I agreed, though I never really meant to keep my end of […]
Your Help is Needed to Document the Pain Two academic research groups, The Association for Interdisciplinary Research and the Elliot Institute for Social Sciences Research, have organized a national project to collect case studies documenting the negative impact of abortion on women, men, and relatives. The goal of this project is to collect tens of […]
Trying to Survive Case Study: Judith Evans When I became pregnant for the fifth time in seven years, my doctor asked me if I really thought I should “continue the pregnancy.” Abortion had never occurred to me until he suggested it. I’m a former foster child. Conceived illegitimately, my father was forced to marry my […]
Researchers Needed The Elliot Institute has several data sets available for use by qualified researchers. (See, for example, the last issue for a description of our random “Reproductive History Survey” which includes 58,906 data points.) We also have three other data sets available, plus over a thousand case study forms which are available for qualitative […]
The Supreme Court Declares Itself Infallible by David C. Reardon As you know, the Court refused to reject the basic premise in Roe which declared that women have a right to abortions. The swing vote of “conservative” Justices (O’Connor, Kennedy, and Souter) avoided a direct reexamination of Roe by deciding that whatever has already been […]
As the director, secretary, receptionist, bookkeeper, and gopher for the Elliot Institute I have been involved in many projects, big and small. In addition to the major research and writing tasks, there are literally hundreds of smaller tasks in which I have been involved. Indeed, these smaller tasks seem to monopolize most of my time. […]