Help, Healing, Research, Education and Advocacy
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, […]
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 Or are they fixated on an outdated and harmful agenda that is opposed by most American women?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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
A Bittersweet Healing Case Study – “Jane” It may be hard for some to believe, but it is comforting for me to know that Moses, King David, and St. Paul all started out as murderers. You can call me Jane. That’s not my real name. Extreme shame keeps me anonymous. I had an abortion when […]
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 […]
By J. Kevin Burke When is a woman “ready” to seek the deeper healing of her abortion pain? When is it too soon? Are post-abortion healing programs “too intense” for women in the first weeks and months after abortion? In working with post-abortive women, one meets many women who are in an emotionally fragile state. […]
3/3/2003 Women with a prior history of abortion are twice as likely to use alcohol, five times more likely to use illicit drugs, and ten times more likely to use marijuana during the first pregnancy they carry to term compared to other women delivering their first pregnancies, according to a study published in this month’s […]
Traumatic Grief and Post-Abortion Trauma A New Diagnosis for Those Struggling After Abortion Dr. Pravin Thevathasan Post-abortion trauma has traditionally been proposed as a specific form of post-traumatic stress disorder by its proponents. The woman experiences the abortion event. There is then a latency period during which she appears to cope well. This is then […]
Volume 11, Number 1, January-March 2003 Download Issue (pdf format) Contents: Traumatic Grief and Post-Abortion Trauma A New Diagnosis for Those Struggling After Abortion Dr. Pravin Thevathasan Research Links Abortion and Substance Abuse During Pregnancy A Healing Model for Newly Aborted Women Vicki Thorn Is It Ever “Too Soon” for Post-Abortion Healing? J. Kevin Burke […]
“God Has Been Calling You” In 1982 I had an abortion. I wish I could say I was pressured into it by my family or by the father. But I wasn’t. My pressure was my fear and shame. For me abortion was the only option. To get through it, I clung to the belief that […]
Study Shows Less Home Support, More Behavioral Problems Among Children Whose Mothers Had Abortions An Elliot Institute co-authored study, published in the newest issue of the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, has found that children whose mothers have a history of abortion tend to have less emotional support at home and more behavioral problems […]
IVF, Mass Production and Coercion David C. Reardon Multifetal pregnancy reduction (MFPR) is recommended by the practitioners of artificial reproduction methods on the grounds that it is necessary to safeguard the health of the mother and surviving children. As with other abortion procedures, however, there is little, if any, evidence that this procedure actually attains […]