Help, Healing, Research, Education and Advocacy
12 Ways You Can Help 1. Pray for Those Hurt by Abortion Millions of women and men quietly suffer serious emotional and spiritual anguish after an abortion. Many are so filled with grief or despair that they contemplate, attempt, or even complete suicide. Please pray for them. Not just this once, but every day. Make […]
By David C. Reardon, Ph.D. On December 12, 1993, I read a report stating that John Bobbitt had pressured Lorena into undergoing an unwanted abortion. Given the substantial number of cases in our files where women and men reported the onset of domestic violence post-abortion, I did not find this news at all surprising. The […]
Elliot Institute’s Voice Heard at the Supreme Court Most of March was occupied in writing an amicus curiae brief for the Supreme Court’s review of Planned Parenthood v Casey. Springfield attorney Stephen Kaufmann provided invaluable assistance in the preparation and filing of this brief. Drawing on our past research, the Elliot Institute provided evidence to […]
Elliot Institute’s 1992 Year-End Report The last year, which has also been our first year as a full time enterprise, has been a busy one. Most of you have heard only my appeals for money. Now it is my obligation, and pleasure, to try to explain to you what the Elliot Institute has done with […]
Pensacola, FL (Feb. 23, 2026) – Abortion bans will expose women giving birth to “44 to 70 times higher than the mortality risk from abortion,” according to a new study from the University of Maryland and Brown University. The lead author, Maria Steenland, an assistant professor at the University of Maryland’s School of Public Health, […]
11/3/2025 Health and Human Services (HHS) has recently declared that recent research demonstrates that acetaminophen use by pregnant women is a “a root cause of autism.” Studies examining this link report that the risk of autism increases somewhere between 7 and 35 percent for unborn children exposed to this commonly used pain medication. This is […]
Pensacola, FL (August 21, 2025)—A new study of over 1.2 million pregnancy outcomes in Quebec, Canada, confirms that psychiatric hospitalization is over twice as likely to occur after induced abortions than after live births (104 versus 42 cases per 10,000 person years). The rates of hospitalization were especially higher for substance abuse disorders and suicide […]
A new free, fast and accurate checklist of risk factors for abortion related complications is available to help women avoid unsafe, unwanted and unnecessary abortions. Organizations referring individuals or clients to the Abortion Risks Factors Assessment (ARFA) form are asked to create and register a referral code with us. The checklist provides valuable information to […]
Pensacola, FL (June 25, 2025)—FDA Commissioner Marty Makary has recently promised to undertake a new review of the “postmarketing safety data on mifepristone for the medical termination of early pregnancy.” In an open letter to the Commissioner, Elliot Institute director David Reardon, has asked Makary to also direct the FDA to require the abortion pill […]
Pensacola, FL (March 28, 2025) — Following an abortion, grief is much more common than relief, and more intensely felt, according to a new study of a random sample of American women. These new findings starkly contradict the claim of Planned Parenthood that “Over 95% of people who have had abortions say that they mostly […]