Help, Healing, Research, Education and Advocacy
In this piece from The Washington Times, Mailee Smith of Americans United for Life describes how the abortion industry is undermining the rights of women by attacking pregnancy resource centers: There is a new war on choice in this country, and the leaders are none other than the captains of the abortion industry. Their target: […]
South Dakota Law Protects Rights of Women Facing Coerced and Unsafe Abortions, Gives Information on Alternatives Planned Parenthood has filed a lawsuit over a new South Dakota law requiring doctors to screen women for coercion and psychological risk factors before abortion, claiming it is unconstitutional, Reuters is reporting. The law, which is to take effect […]
Statement on North Carolina House Bill 854 Abortion – Woman’s Right to Know Act Wednesday, May 11, 2011 Martha W. Shuping, M.D. This statement is in support of HB 854. Thank you for the opportunity to speak in support of HB 854. My name is Martha Shuping. I’m a medical doctor specializing in psychiatry, fully […]
Planned Parenthood in Louisiana is objecting to a bill that would require abortion businesses to post signs telling women that no one has the right to coerce or force them to abort. From LifeNews.com: The House Health and Welfare Committee on Wednesday approved an alternative version of HB 586 sponsored by Rep. Frank Hoffmann, a […]
5/2/2011 Former abortion clinic director Abby Johnson apologizes to women who were coerced into or hurt by abortion: Every day of my life I think about the women I took from. I took away their motherhood, I devalued them, I broke their confidence, I betrayed them. How I wish I could look into every one […]
From LifeSite News: An Ohio man pleaded guilty to attempted murder Thursday after he was charged for attempting to force his pregnant girlfriend to abort their child at gunpoint. Dominic Holt-Reid, 28, now faces up to 20 years in prison and a $40,000 fine. He also pleaded guilty to kidnapping and carrying a concealed weapon. […]
Mary Hamed at Americans United for Life reports on a tax-payer funded web site in Massachusetts that gives teens advice on how to get an abortion, including information on how to do so without telling their parents. From the article “When Maria Talks, Teens Should Not Listen”: How would you feel if you learned that […]
Book Review It is curious that Elizabeth McCraken’s memoir of the year following the full term stillbirth of her first child was given widespread media coverage, including a long review in The New York Times. It is certainly a well written and moving book that deserves widespread reviews. But it is curious that similar books describing […]
The Impact on Parents and Families “In advanced industrial countries, prenatal testing in order to detect fetal abnormalities has become routine,” as researchers Elizabeth Ring Cassidy and Ian Gentles of The deVeber Institute note below. In many cases, it is assumed — even expected — that diagnosis of a disability or genetic disorder will lead […]
The Center Against Forced Abortions (CAFA), a project of the Justice Foundation, provides legal help to pregnant mothers and helps them exercise their right to continue the pregnancy. CAFA provides legal assistance and training for pregnancy centers and other ministries, and documents to help enforce the rights of the mother to have her child. Allan […]
Reality Show Winner Shares Story of Unwanted Abortion The web site Unreality TV quotes an interview with Josie Gibson, a British reality star who revealed that she underwent an unwanted abortion after being coerced by her ex-boyfriend: “He waited until I was three months gone to tell me that he didn’t want it. I even […]
A survey of 1,000 respondents in New Zealand found that 64 percent of respondents supported a proposal to require a doctor other than an abortion provider to give women information about medical risks and alternatives before an abortion takes place. Slightly more women than men (64 percent to 62 percent) supported the proposal. 62 percent […]
The Witherspoon Institute’s Public Discourse blog has a good article on the new prenatal test for Down Snydrome and the link to abortion, noting the relationship to coerced abortion. From the article, The New Prenatal Testing Sham, by Mark W. Leach: Since 2007, the professional recommendation has been for all expectant mothers to be offered […]
Women’s Rights Without Frontiers Condemns U.S. Support for One-Child Policy Women’s Rights Without Frontiers, an organization that opposes forced abortion and sexual slavery in China, is reporting that a man was stabbed to death as he attempted to stop family planning officials from beating his father. The officials were apparently seeking to take the man’s […]
We have just created our first YouTube channel, http://www.youtube.com/abortionrisks, where we will be uploading a number of videos over the next several months. The first, available now, is a 30 second television commercial that has aired as both paid and public service advertising which examines the problem of unwanted abortions. Please “like” the video and […]
The March 2011 issue of American Life League’s Celebrate Life includes a profile of the Elliot Institute. Check it out online at: The Elliot Institute: Passionate advocate for abortion’s other victims
While present research is unable to accurately establish what percentage of women suffer from any specific symptom of post-abortion trauma, it is clear that post-abortion psychological disorders do occur. Indeed, the published literature demonstrates that serious emotional and psychological complications following an abortion are probably more common than serious physical complications. The present literature has […]
Planned Parenthood Plans to File Suit to Stop Law Protecting Women’s Rights The governor of South Dakota has signed a bill that would require doctors to screen women before abortion to ensure that they are not being coerced. Governor Dennis Daugaard signed HB 1217, which requires a licensed physician to meet with a woman at […]
Great news from the Center Against Forced Abortions (CAFA): Recently, the Alliance Defense Fund contacted us on behalf of a young girl in Kansas who was trying to help a girl being forced by her parents to have an abortion. We immediately contacted the girl who turned out to be the sister of the baby’s […]
Bill Contains Elements of Elliot Institute’s Model Screening Legislation The Elliot Institute and the Stop Forced Abortions Alliance are praising the passage of a bill in South Dakota that would require women to go through a screening process before abortion to ensure that they are not being coerced. HB 1217 requires a licensed physician to […]
The Abortion Recovery InterNational Network (ARIN) cordially invites you to celebrate and participate in Abortion Recovery Awareness Month in April 2011. The goals of Abortion Recovery Awareness Month are to encourage and extend healing opportunities to those hurting after abortion, and to enlighten society about the effects of abortion on individuals and families. During the […]
Brent Rooney, M.Sc. In 1999, Professor Larry Burd and colleagues reported that women with prior induced abortions had a three times higher risk of delivering a newborn later diagnosed with autism.1 In the 1960s, the U.S. autism rate for newborns was approximately 1 in 10,000, but the rate skyrocketed to 1 in 110 in 2009 […]
With the arrest of Dr. Kermit Gossnell and his associates for running an abortion “house of horrors” in Philadelphia, and legislative proposals to strip Planned Parenthood of government funding at the state and federal levels, abortion advocates are falling back on the claim that any effort to regulate the abortion industry will lead to the […]
