Help, Healing, Research, Education and Advocacy
Suicide Rates Triple Among Young Women — Could Abortion Be a Factor? The National Institutes of Health reports that suicide is now the third leading cause of death among American young people, and has tripled among teen girls and young women in the past 25 years — despite a drop in the overall suicide rate […]
New Poll Results: Most Believe Abortion Makes Women’s Lives Worse As the 2004 election year heats up, candidates must once again grapple with the divisive issue of abortion. All the same old arguments will be heard, of course. But this year may also witness a major shift in goals, rhetoric, and voting patterns — if […]
South Dakota Kills Abortion Ban A bill that would have banned most abortions in South Dakota has died after the state Senate refused to approve technical corrections that the governor wanted to be made to the bill. Pro-life Gov. Mike Rounds had said he would sign the bill if legislators made changes to ensure that […]
Talking With Your Children About Your Abortion Amy R. Sobie Theresa Bonopartis vividly remembers the day, more than 20 years ago, that she phoned her doctor for the results of her pregnancy test. She was 18, unmarried, and scared. The doctor’s words confirmed what, despite months of denial, she already knew–she was almost four months […]
1) Make sure you have worked through the grief process first. Parents need to be far enough along in their own healing to be able to cope with their children’s emotional reactions. 2) Seek the advice of a trusted counselor, minister, priest, support group leader or other trusted source. If you are a religious person, […]
Volume 12, Number 1, January-March 2004 Download Issue (pdf format) Contents: Talking With Your Children About Your Abortion Tips for Talking With Your Children About A Past Abortion Panel To Hear Case Asking Supreme Court to Overturn Roe v. Wade Judges Say They Won’t Hear Oral Arguments in McCorvey Case News Briefs Suicide Rates Triple […]
By Sydna Masse The fingers of abortion reach into many lives and cross all generational lines. It affects everyone whether they know it or not. We often forget the extended wounded in the need to help the grieving post-abortive individual. Wounded family and friends don’t even know where to go to get help. Some don’t […]
News Briefs Pennsylvania Man Convicted Under Fetal Homicide Law A Pennsylvania man has been sentenced to 20 to 60 years for the death of his girlfriend and her unborn child. Matthew Bullock, 28, was sentenced to serve 20 to 60 years in a secure mental health facility after admitting to police that he strangled Lisa […]
A Hidden Giant Post-Abortion Expert Leaves Legacy of Written and Living Treasures David C. Reardon On November 13, 2003, God called home one of his champions, Tom Strahan. Tom died of a heart attack shortly after he and his wife, Carol, returned home from a fund-raising banquet for a pregnancy help center in Minneapolis. To […]
The Two Doors Julie Woodley with Matt Woodley In July 1985, my husband and I paraded through the front doors of Methodist Hospital of St. Louis Park. We came to give birth to a beautiful baby girl, Bonnie Joy. Six years prior to that, I had quietly slipped into Methodist Hospital through the back door, […]
Letting God Use Me Case Study: “Andrea M.” I was in nursing school and not doing very well. I had decided to quit school and just work as a nursing assistant when I met the father of my baby. I came from an alcoholic family and I had been doing drugs and drinking, and had […]
Women Are Concerned About Violence, Not Abortion — But Abortion Advocates Are Not Addressing the Violence of Unwanted Abortions Are abortion advocates really concerned about women? Or are they fixated on an outdated and harmful agenda that is opposed by most American women? The answers to these questions are suggested in a new poll conducted […]
Effort to Reverse Roe Will Press Ahead The campaign to overturn Roe v. Wade will press ahead, as Norma McCorvey–the former “Jane Roe” of the U.S. Supreme Court case legalizing abortion–appeals a judge’s dismissal of a motion asking the Supreme Court to revisit her case. On June 17, McCorvey filed a “motion for relief from […]
Researchers Call for More Studies on Links Among Depression, Abortion, and Suicide Women with a history of abortion are at significantly higher risk of experiencing clinical depression compared to women who give birth, according to a nationally representative study of 1,884 women published in the latest issue of the Medical Science Monitor. Researchers compared data […]
News Briefs 1 in 6 Americans Involved in Abortion, Study Says A University of Chicago study shows that one in six Americans have been involved in a pregnancy that ended in abortion. The study also found that women are more likely to abort their first pregnancy or a later pregnancy than are women in their […]
The Impact of Abortion After Prenatal Testing Elizabeth Ring-Cassidy and Ian Gentles In advanced industrial countries, prenatal testing in order to detect fetal abnormalities has become routine. The amount of genetic information that has become available has expanded enormously in the past few years. While there are a number of ways of carrying out these […]
“The Hardest Thing I Have Ever Done” Women’s Stories of Dealing With Fetal Abnormality Emma Loach was about 20 weeks pregnant when she and her partner learned their unborn child had Down Syndrome. They were immediately sent to a hospital to meet with a consultant. “He then told us what the prognosis would mean for […]
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. […]
News Briefs US Reports on Forced Abortion in China, North Korea According to the Bush Administration’s annual report on human rights, published in April, both China and North Korea are engaging in coercive population control programs. The report notes that forced abortions and infanticide have been carried out in prisons in North Korea, and that […]
Judas and Me Theresa Bonopartis I can always remember thinking as a kid that I never would have betrayed Jesus like Judas had done. I couldn’t understand how he could have made that choice. It all seemed so obvious. Now, years later and hopefully wiser, I see that I am not so different than Judas. […]
Book Review The Sorrow of Sexual Assault & the Joy of Healing Kay Zibolsky ISBN 1-931727-10-4 (128 pp). Published by Bridge-Logos Publishers, 1 (800) 631-5802, www.bridgelogos.com. To order, contact your local Christian bookstore. In talking with people about abortion, pro-lifers often find themselves confronted with the question, “What if a woman has been raped?” To […]
Vicki Thorn In the last few years, a radical shift has happened in the ministry of post-abortion healing. For many years, the average woman who came for help was five to ten years post-abortive and was between the ages of 25 and 35. Now contact is often made by women who are only months, days, […]
Study Reveals Abortion Leads to Feelings of Distress A survey of patients at a New York state abortion clinic found widespread feelings of emotional distress among women who have had abortions. The survey of 212 patients was conducted at Southern Tier Women’s Services in upstate New York over a period of four weeks. The results […]