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1/20/2005 Springfield, IL (January 20, 2005) — A new research review published in Current Women’s Health Reviews highlights the growing body of evidence that abortion is linked with increased rates of substance abuse among women. Substance abuse has increased in the past three decades in the United States, but author Priscilla Coleman, a researcher and […]
Women Who Abort Experience More Anxiety New Elliot Institute Study Compares Women With Unintended First Pregnancies Women who abort unintended pregnancies are more likely to experience subsequent problems with anxiety compared to women who deliver their unintended pregnancies, according to a new Elliot Institute study published in the latest edition of the prestigious Journal of […]
A Need for Compassion Case Study: Susan S. I need your compassion, as do many other women like me. I am a post-abortion woman. At the age of 54, I am finally confronting the damage that three abortions have done to me. I was one of the lucky ones: I did not suffer any physical […]
Federal Court Points Way to Protecting Women’s Rights By Overturning Roe New Facts Must Be Backed by New Legislative Effort The efforts of Norma McCorvey, the “Roe” of the 1973 Roe v. Wade case that legalized abortions, to have that landmark decision reversed has taken two steps forward and one step back with the recent […]
News Briefs Court Blocks Florida Law Requiring Abortionists to Give Women Information on Risks A federal appeals court has overturned a Florida law requiring abortionists to give women information about the risks of abortion, ruling that it imposes “burdens upon the pregnant woman which improperly intrude upon the exercise of her choice between abortion and […]
Survey: Most Americans Think Abortion Hurts Women New Nationwide Wirthlin Poll Confirms Elliot Institute Findings A new, nationwide Wirthlin poll has found that a significant majority of Americans believe that abortion is “almost always bad” for women, echoing an earlier Elliot Institute poll that found that the majority of Americans believe abortion generally makes women’s […]
New Facts Must be Backed by New Legislative Effort (October 21, 2004) – The effort of Norma McCorvey, the “Roe” of the 1973 Roe v. Wade case that legalized abortions, to have that landmark decision reversed has taken two steps forward and one step back. In the course of these events, a recent federal appeals […]
So Grateful That I Lived Case Study: “Julia” I had my first abortion when I was 26 years old. I was married at the time to a successful chiropractor. We had two young children, a boy and a girl, ages four and two. You wouldn’t think I would be a candidate for an abortion; we […]
Elliot Institute’s 21-page special report, “Forced Abortion in America” combines the frightening headlines, the compelling first hand accounts, and the peer reviewed studies documenting the crisis of forced abortions in America. Up to 64% of women tell researchers that they felt pressured to undergo an unwanted abortion. This report includes numerous examples of girls and women who were forced to undergo unwanted abortions by parents, sexual molesters, school officials, employers, and others.
News Briefs Planned Parenthood’s “I Had An Abortion” Shirt Draws Criticism from Affiliates, Post-Abortion Groups Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) is defending its new t-shirt reading, “I Had an Abortion,” despite criticism not only from post-abortion groups but also some of PPFA’s local affiliates. PPFA says the shirts offer “a powerful message in support […]
