Help, Healing, Research, Education and Advocacy
By David C. Reardon, Ph.D. “How can you deny an abortion to a twelve-year-old girl who is the victim of incest?” Typically, people on both sides of the abortion debate accept the premise that most women who become pregnant through sexual assault want abortions. From this “fact,” it naturally follows that the reason women want […]
Women Who’ve Been Pregnant Through Sexual Assault Plead For Public Hearings SPRINGFIELD, IL (June 23, 2004)– A group of women who have experienced pregnancies resulting from rape or incest are petitioning Congress and state legislatures to hear their stories, saying women who become pregnant from sexual assault don’t want or need abortions. The […]
Forbidden Grief The Unspoken Pain of Abortion by Theresa Burke, Ph.D., with David C. Reardon, Ph.D. For more than 30 years, our nation has argued about abortion. In that time, over 30 million women have had one or more abortions. It’s time to move beyond the politics of abortion. While the political battle rages, little […]
Host of New ” Television Series Comments Springfield, IL (Jan. 4, 2004) — “The abortion industry is a house of cards ready to collapse,” said David C. Reardon, Ph.D., host of a new television program that will premiere in January on the Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN), during the week of the anniversary of Roe […]
By Amy Sobie Kay Zibolsky is the founder of Life After Assault League, an organization dedicated to ministering to victims of sexual assault. In 1957, Kay herself was raped and became pregnant at the age of 16. She gave birth to her daughter, Robin, and placed her for adoption when she was 18 months old. […]
Reviews The ChoiceChris Jackman Interactive Bible Study on CD-Rom. Available for $15 (CD version with Bible study) or $12 (cassette version with music only) from Project Grace, PO Box 112, Zeeland, MI 49464, www.projectgrace.com. The Choice is a truly unique and exciting offering–a CD and interactive Bible study from Project Grace, a post-abortion counseling ministry. […]
Victims and Victors Book Tells Women’s Stories of Sexual Assault Pregnancy “Having lived through rape, and having raised a child ‘conceived in rape,’ I feel personally assaulted and insulted every time I hear that abortion should be legal for rape and incest. I feel that we’re being used to further the abortion issue, even though […]
Springfield, IL (June 4, 2000) — A woman becomes pregnant during a rape. Elsewhere, a 12-year-old incest victim is six months pregnant. Is abortion in such cases necessary or even helpful? Not according to a new survey of 192 women who became pregnant through sexual assault and either had abortions or carried term. Instead, the […]
Post-abortion counselors are prepared to help people of every religious background, or no religious background. Most are very respectful of the religious beliefs (or non-beliefs) of the women and men they serve. Because abortion involves issues of death and moral responsibility, however, it is natural and necessary for the religious and spiritual beliefs of the […]
It’s scary to talk about an abortion experience with others. What if they don’t understand? What if they condemn you, withdraw from you, or start acting weird whenever you’re around? These are all reasonable fears. We have them because it is important for all of us to see and feel that people around us care […]