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News Briefs Man Gets Life Sentence in Abortion/Murder Case A Pennsylvania man has been sentenced to life in prison for setting a bomb that killed his pregnant ex-girlfriend and her children because she refused to have an abortion. Police said Joseph Mienerd, 48, had threatened to kill his girlfriend, Deena Mitts, and that on New […]
Elliot Institute Research Has Major Implications For Women’s Health, Abortion Politics A study published in the August edition of the Southern Medical Journal reveals that women who have abortions are at significantly higher risk of death than women who give birth. Researchers examined death records linked to Medi-Cal payments for births and abortions for approximately […]
Springfield, IL (8/20/02) — 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 therapist. A study published in the most […]
Elliot Institute Research Has Major Implications For Women’s Health, Abortion Politics Springfield IL (August 12, 2002) – A study published in the August edition of the Southern Medical Journal reveals that women who have abortions are at significantly higher risk of death than women who give birth. Researchers examined death records linked to Medi-Cal payments for births […]
New Study Shows Women’s Death Rate Following Abortion Much Higher than Previously Known Springfield, IL (August 2, 2002)–A study published in the August edition of the Southern Medical Journal reveals that women who have abortions are at significantly higher risk of near and long term death than women who give birth. This contradicts the widely […]
Book Review Women’s Health After Abortion: The Medical and Psychological Evidence Elizabeth Ring-Cassidy and Ian Gentles The last fifteen years have witnessed a steady growth in awareness about post-abortion complications for women. Previous concerns about damaged reproductive systems and severe psychological reactions have been multiplied with the addition of evidence surrounding the abortion breast cancer […]
Top Medical Journal Publishes Elliot Institute’s New Findings A new Elliot Institute study published in the prestigious British Medical Journal (BMJ) found that women who abort a first pregnancy face a significantly greater risk of subsequent long term clinical depression compared to women who carry an unintended first pregnancy to term. Publication of the study […]
Learning to Trust “Julia Winters” In July of 1996, I got pregnant after a year of dating my now ex-boyfriend. I was very happy with the news that I was going to be a mom. I’ve always loved children; I think they are the best thing that can ever happen to someone. But when I […]
Mind Games: The Use and Misuse of Defense Mechanisms An Excerpt from the Book “Forbidden Grief” Theresa Burke With David C. Reardon “Buried emotions are like rejected people; they make us pay a high price for having rejected them.” –Rev. John Powell There once was a woman who discovered a corroded pipe in her basement. […]
Abortionist Loses Civil Suit in Abortion Death A five-year-old Delaware boy whose mother died from a botched abortion has been awarded $2 million in damages in a civil suit against the abortionist. Mohammad Imran was found guilty of negligence in the death of 19-year-old Gracelyn T. Harris, who underwent an abortion at the Delaware Women’s […]