Help, Healing, Research, Education and Advocacy
by David C. Reardon Stephanie Clark was only looking for a pair of her daughter’s pants when she opened the closet door. Imagine her surprise at finding a tiny newborn baby nestled in a blanket. “I screamed in surprise,” she later told reporters. “I called 911. They said, ‘Whose baby is it?’ I said, ‘I […]
by David C. Reardon, Ph.D. Sit with me for a moment in the waiting room of an abortion clinic. Here you will find women who, in general, are neither philosophers nor fools–categories which admittedly include substantial overlap. Very few of these women have engaged in arcane debates about the meaning of “personhood.” Fewer still are […]
Revisiting the “Koop Report” by 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? […]
6/10/1994 Artist, editor, and publisher Carolyn Blakeslee is soliciting submissions for Abortion: The Irrevocable Choice, a sensitive, beautifully produced, full-color “cocktail table book.” Through the gentle but powerful collection of artwork, poetry, lyrics, and personal testimonies, Carolyn, who is herself a post-aborted woman, seeks to open hearts to the humanity of the unborn and tragedy […]
Volume 2, Number 1, Winter 1993 Before I Had Time to Think A testimony of abortion after date rape pregnancy: “I realize that I was going through almost classic Post-Abortion Syndrome. Rape, Incest & Abortion: Searching Beyond the Myths Why abortion isn’t the answer in these “hard cases.” Accomplices in Incest One fifteen-year-old’s story of […]
Your Help is Needed to Document the Pain Two academic research groups, The Association for Interdisciplinary Research and the Elliot Institute for Social Sciences Research, have organized a national project to collect case studies documenting the negative impact of abortion on women, men, and relatives. The goal of this project is to collect tens of […]