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Study Links Depression with Abortion Researchers Call for More Studies on Emotional Risks of Abortion Springfield, Ill. (May 6, 2003)– Women with a history of abortion are at significantly higher risk of experiencing clinical depression compared to women who give birth, according to a nationally representative study of 1,884 women published in the latest issue […]
3/3/2003 Women with a prior history of abortion are twice as likely to use alcohol, five times more likely to use illicit drugs, and ten times more likely to use marijuana during the first pregnancy they carry to term compared to other women delivering their first pregnancies, according to a study published in this month’s […]
12/15/2002 New Study Shows Substance Abuse Among Pregnant Women Linked to Prior Abortion, Puts Later Children At Risk Springfield, IL (December 15, 2002)– Women with a prior history of abortion are twice as likely to use alcohol, five times more likely to use illicit drugs, and ten times more likely to use marijuana during the […]
Study Shows Less Home Support, More Behavioral Problems Among Children Whose Mothers Had Abortions An Elliot Institute co-authored study, published in the newest issue of the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, has found that children whose mothers have a history of abortion tend to have less emotional support at home and more behavioral problems […]
Infertility Treatments and the Problem of “Multifetal Pregnancy Reduction” Elizabeth Ring-Cassidy and Ian Gentles Just as reproductive technologies have changed obstetrical practice, so too have they led to a type of abortion which affects a different population of pregnant women from those who do not want to be pregnant. These women have waited and planned […]
Population control advocates insist that expanded access to abortion is essential to improving the status and health of women throughout the world. Pro-lifers, on the other hand, are obviously opposed to any effort to expand abortion access around the world. Many proponents of population control honestly believe that such efforts will expand the rights of […]
Propaganda Distorts Abortion Debate By Rep. John Hostettler Maybe the writers for the NBC drama “Law and Order” just ran out of plot ideas. Instead of a fresh new storyline, their Jan. 6 episode recycled a tired and reliable media theme: a “pro-lifer” stalking and killing an abortion practitioner. The abortionist, predictably, was portrayed as […]
Learning to Accept Healing Case Study: I was 14 years old, the middle child of nine, and lost in the confusion and shuffle of parents trying to raise four teenagers older than me during the 1970’s. I was accepted to a prestigious private high school, two city bus rides away from home. Going from the […]
Clinic Counselors Urge Pregnant “Teen” to Lie About Age Planned Parenthood and the National Abortion Federation (NAF) are accomplices in the sexual exploitation of teenage girls by older men, according to research released by Life Dynamics. The research says that sexual abuse and exploitation of teenage girls in the U.S. has reached “epidemic” proportions, and […]
Elliot Institute Study Shows Higher Treatment Rates Persist Over Four Years Six months after her abortion, Jane had a mental breakdown. When she later delivered a healthy son, unresolved grief over her abortion contributed to severe post-partum psychosis. “I remember wanting to throw him out the window of the hospital room,” she later told her […]