Help, Healing, Research, Education and Advocacy
Over 60% of aborting women report they felt pressured to abort contrary to their own preferences. 24% describe their abortions as unwanted or coerced. Unregulated abortion empowers abusers, denies women the help they need to avoid unwanted abortions, and enriches unethical abortion providers. Why aren’t we talking more about the national crisis of unwanted abortions?!! […]
Experts on both sides of the abortion debate agree that abortion contributes to mental health problems in some women. But they disagree whether or not abortion is ever the sole cause of mental illness.
Abortion and miscarriage are linked to an increased risk of premature death in women, while live birth is associated with improved longevity. The negative effects are greater for abortion than miscarriage, Each abortion exposure increases the risk of early death by about fifty percent. The elevated risk of death has been identified within the first 180 days following an abortion or miscarriage and may persists for over ten years.
Women Cope with Delivery of Unplanned Pregnancy Better than Abortion Springfield,IL (September 1, 2011) – Women who have abortions are 81 percent more likely to experience subsequent mental health problems, according to a new study published by Britain’s Royal College of Psychiatrists. The greatest increases were seen in relation to suicidal behaviors and substance abuse. […]
Theresa Karminski Burke, Ph.D. For some women, abortion is the result of an outright threat of abandonment if the woman won’t “do the right thing” and abort. Other times, the pressure is more subtle: “It’s your decision, but….” Unfortunately, all the evidence shows that abortion to “save a relationship” almost never works. Many relationships between […]
While there is intense controversy regarding how many women experience post-abortion psychological problems, even pro-abortion researchers admit that at least some women are negatively effected. Moreover, according to the American Psychological Association’s 2008 Task Force on Mental Health and Abortion there are at least 15 risk factors that identify the women at greatest risk of […]
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, […]
Pensacola, FL (Dec. 15, 2025) – New research utilizing a national random survey of American women aged 41 to 45 years found that prolonged grief disorder is common after both induced abortions and natural losses. The research investigated the degrees of grief and complicated grief attributed to natural and induced pregnancy losses, based on 1,925 […]
Christopher Derrick, Too Many People? A Problem in Values (San Francisco, Ignatius Press, 1985) Christopher Derrick’s reflections on the “population problem” are an important contribution to the population control debate. Derrick does not even begin to look at the demographic evidence which confirms or disproves fears of overpopulation. He does not look at gross national […]
The Unwanted Abortion Studies are an ongoing investigation of the relationship between different pregnancy outcomes (including induced abortion, miscarriage, delivery of an unplanned pregnancy, and delivery of a wanted pregnancy) and associated psychological distress, decision satisfaction, and suicide risk.1–5 Currently, the implemented studies have been based on national random samples of American females aged 41–45. […]
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 […]
