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Books Available from Acorn Books Giving Sorrow Words: Women’s Stories of Grief After Abortion Journalist and women’s rights advocate Melinda Tankard Reist draws on women’s own stories to examine the social, familial, and coercive pressures that lead to abortions, many of which are unwanted. She also shows how these women’s stories often go unheard […]
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 […]
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” […]
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For more resources on post-abortion trauma and healing, visit the Thomas W. Strahan Memorial Library at www.AbortionRisks.org. This web site includes an annotated bibliography listing hundreds of books, journal articles, and research monographs on post-abortion issues. It contains research findings on abortion decision-making, effects of abortion on male-female relationships, repeat abortions, the psychological implications of […]
By David C. Reardon, Ph.D. Since 1980, mental health providers have begun treating an increasing number of women who are suffering mental and emotional difficulties as a result of induced abortions. The best available evidence indicates that on average there is a ten year period of denial during which women who were traumatized by their […]
The Protection from High Risk and Coerced Abortion Act Version 3.2 October 29, 1998 Be it enacted by the People of the State of STATE , represented in the General Assembly: Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as The Protection from High Risk and Coerced Abortion Act. Section 5. Legislative findings […]
