Help, Healing, Research, Education and Advocacy
Fund Raising Assistance Mass mailing piece #1Mass mailing piece #2Grant Proposal for CoSponsors How to Contact Editors to Arrange for Placement Of Hope and Healing Sample Contact LetterInsertion Order FormHow to Handle Objections to Hope andHealing Getting the Supplement into High School
Hope and Healing Matching Grant Fund Fund Raising Opportunities and Assistance To raise their portion of the project’s cost, participating organizations are encouraged to undertake one or all three of the following alternatives. Direct Mail Fund Raising Appeal Sample fund raising letters are available from the Elliot Institute in printed form or at www.afterabortion/funds. These […]
Hope and Healing Matching Grant Fund Qualifications to Participate To assist other organizations in distributing Hope and Healing the Elliot Institute has established a matching grant fund to subsidize the costs of inserting Hope and Healing in city, community, and college newspapers. Through this fund, the Elliot Institute is prepared to pay for 50 to […]
Sample Fundraising Letter for Hope and Healing #2 Dear Friend, How can we stop the tragedy of unwanted abortions? How can we reach out to the thousands of women and men in our community who are hurting, emotionally and spiritually, because of a past abortion? Studies show that most women choose abortion not because they […]
Hope and Healing Distribution Project SAMPLE GRANT PROPOSAL Table of Contents Executive Summary…………… i The Problem ……………………………1 Our Solution………………. 2 Qualification to Participate in Matching Grant Fund ……………………………….3 Benefits……………………… 4 Evaluation …………………………4 Future Plans ………………………………………4 Five Year Budget ………………………..5 Background of Elliot Institute …………………….6 Background of [NAME OF YOUR ORGANIZATION] ……………..7 Tax Exempt Letter [of […]
Some people seem to come through an abortion unchanged. Others struggle for years with feelings of grief, guilt, shame, anxiety, low self-esteem, anger, or depression. Still others have problems with nightmares, eating disorders, broken or abusive relationships, substance abuse, and even suicide. It is possible for any woman to unexpectedly have a bad emotional reaction […]
Persuading the Editor to Accept Hope and Healing Use these arguments in your follow-up letter to persuade newspaper staff to accept Hope and Healing as an advertising supplement: Journalistic Ethics Arguments Campus newspapers that engage in fair journalistic practices help to create a learning experience for the student body, promote freedom of speech, and encourage […]
To Those Who Mourn, When I was seventeen years old I underwent a second trimester, saline abortion. Although I wanted to have my baby, my parents pressured me to submit to the abortion. After many hours of labor, I gave birth to a dead baby boy. To say that this had a major impact on […]
Dear Friend: How can we convince people that abortion will make their lives worse, not better? And how can we help those whose lives have already been devastated by abortion? The path will be long and hard, but we have a good start with Hope and Healing. You probably already know that abortion hurts not […]
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 […]
Beverly McMillan, M.D. Dr. Beverly McMillan is an ob/gyn. In 1975, she became the first woman to open an abortion clinic in Mississippi. She ceased doing abortions in 1978 when she became convinced that the abortions she was performing were causing everyone involved far more harm than good. What are the physical complications of abortion? […]
Getting the Supplement into High School How to Place Hope and Healing In College Newspapers Pat Jenkins Most private Christian and Catholic colleges will readily welcome Hope and Healing as a paid advertising insert into their student newspapers. A few may even be willing to insert it at no charge as a service to their […]
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 […]
Clearing the Air About the Psychological Effects of Abortion by Martha Shuping, M.D. Why do women have abortions? At least 70 percent of women having abortions say they believe it is immoral.(1) But they choose against their conscience because of pressure from others and their circumstances. Most women choose abortion out of fear–fear of not […]
You can use this letter as an example when composing your own contact letter for newspapers. Sample Letter Dear Advertising Manager/Editor: Journalism best serves its citizens when it provides meaningful information on all issues, even those issues which might be considered sensitive. When there is a continuous free flow of information, society is assured that […]
Q1: Do you find yourself struggling to turn off feelings or memories related to your abortion(s)? Do you need to keep reminding yourself to just forget it or put it behind you? Do you become uncomfortable around reminders of the abortion, such as being around babies or pregnant women, being in a doctor’s office, or […]
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 […]
1. Recognize that you are not alone. Others have been through the same experience and the same trials. Their experiences and understanding can help you. They want to help you, just as you may want to help others after you have finished going through the healing process. (See “Don’t Go It Alone.“) 2. Recognize that […]
Martha Shuping, M.D. Can an abortion affect one’s parenting skills? Obviously, if women and men are having emotional problems because of their past abortions, this is going to have an impact on their families. For example, women who have had an abortion are more likely to report subsequent substance abuse. Clearly, alcoholism and drug abuse […]
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 my two abortions that nearly destroyed me. When I became pregnant […]
(The copyright for this article is held by the Washington Post. It originally appeared in The Washington Post, February 3, 1995. It was reprinted with permission in Hope and Healing, but that permission does not extend to publishing on the Internet.) For other articles and testimonies about abortion’s impact on men, visit here.
92% Emotional deadening (Reported either feeling less in touch with their emotions or feeling a “need to stifle their emotions”) 86% Increased tendency toward anger or rage (48% reported they became more violent when angered) 86% Had a fear of others learning of the abortion or a greater sense of fear for unknown reasons 82% […]
Do you realize that you can promote post-abortion healing without ever talking to people about their past abortions? You don’t even have to know if someone has had an abortion. And you certainly don’t have to become a trained counselor or an expert in post-abortion issues. All you have to do is sow a few […]
