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Trusting God’s Mercy for Unborn Children Despair vs Hope, Part 3 David C. Reardon Editor’s Note: In previous issues of The Post-Abortion Review (Spring 1995 and Fall 1995) we examined the role of despair in driving women and men toward choosing abortion and then in holding them back from healing after an abortion. I have […]
DON’T shut them off by changing the subject. DO listen patiently to everything they have to say. Expect and allow them to repeat themselves and to bring the subject up again later. They may need to sort out their feelings. Verbalizing them with someone who will listen helps. DON’T presume to know their own unique […]
11/23/1999 David C. Reardon, Ph.D. A recent Elliot Institute study has established a strong statistical correlation between abortion and subsequent drug or alcohol abuse. This finding is based on a national, random sample of 700 women participating in a reproductive history survey. After excluding women who engaged in substance abuse prior to their first pregnancy, […]
Trying to Survive By Judith Evans My childhood was brutal. I was abandoned by my father when I was two-and-a-half. Then when he reappeared in my life again at the age of eight, it became worse. I survived incest, starvation, and beatings. I clung to life. It was the two abortions I had that nearly […]
A great tool for healing & pro-life education. . . and a great fund-raiser too! The Jericho Plan:Breaking Down the Walls Which Prevent Post-Abortion Healing What it is: This book gives clergy a proven method of preaching on abortion in a sensitive, compassionate and healing way which does not antagonize church members on either side […]
“Brilliant, unique. Making Abortion Rare will accomplish what its title claims–and much more.”- Rev. Paul Marx, Founder of Human Life International Is it possible for abortion to become rare even before Roe v Wade is reversed? Dr. David Reardon answers yes and lays out a innovative three-pronged strategy for dramatically curtailing abortion rates within […]
By David C. Reardon, Ph.D. The American Medical Association has long supported legal abortion. Indeed, since 1972, the AMA’s amicus briefs to the Supreme Court have generously provided Justice Harry Blackmun and his cohorts with a “medical” justification for abortion on demand. The crux of this “medical” justification is the claim that abortion is “safe” […]
Revisiting the “Koop Report” David C. Reardon, Ph.D. What do Dr. C. Everett Koop and Dr. Henry Foster have in common? As nominees for the post of the U.S. Surgeon General, both have been through grueling confirmation hearings which were deeply concerned with two key questions: 1) Is abortion a legitimate form of medicine? and […]
What Dr. Koop Could Have Reported David C. Reardon While it is true that there was not, and still isn’t, any solid data for making any accurate estimate of how many women suffer from post-abortion psychological sequelae, there were three specific findings (readily substantiated by the literature available at that time) upon which to build […]
David C. Reardon , Ph.D. While there have been many studies regarding the emotional aftermath of abortion, very little has been firmly established. It is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to complete a study in this field that would be generally conclusive and above reproach. Among other complications, (1) the cooperation of the study population […]