Help, Healing, Research, Education and Advocacy
By David C. Reardon, Ph.D. “How can you deny an abortion to a twelve-year-old girl who is the victim of incest?” Typically, people on both sides of the abortion debate accept the premise that most women who become pregnant through sexual assault want abortions. From this “fact,” it naturally follows that the reason women want […]
Politically Correct Vs. Politically Smart Why Politicians Should Be Both Pro-woman and Pro-life by David C. Reardon The abortion debate is about women’s rights versus the rights of the unborn. Right? Wrong. That is the way the pro-abortionists and media have framed the debate. They have consciously defined this issue in terms which polarize the […]
Pro-Woman / Pro-Life Sound Bites by David C. Reardon The following is an example of how a candidate for public office can address the abortion issue from a pro-woman/pro-life perspective in a way which provides “sound bites” for the press which are difficult to distort. Speech Inserts: Abortion is a divisive issue. But certainly we […]
Fear and Forgiveness Case Sudy: Teri Lightheart In 1979, I was nineteen years old. I was sharing an apartment with a co-worker. One night I went out for a drink with my 34 year old step-uncle. After a few drinks we left and the next thing I knew we were back at my apartment. I […]
6/10/1994 Artist, editor, and publisher Carolyn Blakeslee is soliciting submissions for Abortion: The Irrevocable Choice, a sensitive, beautifully produced, full-color “cocktail table book.” Through the gentle but powerful collection of artwork, poetry, lyrics, and personal testimonies, Carolyn, who is herself a post-aborted woman, seeks to open hearts to the humanity of the unborn and tragedy […]
by David C. Reardon I am afraid that many readers will consider the following article to be long, and maybe even “dry!” I apologize to these readers. On the other hand, it is my hope that most readers will recognize that this issue of physician’s duties and patient’s rights truly is the “Achilles’ heel” of […]
Two Senseless Deaths: The Long Road to Recovery by “Mrs. Julia Taylor” This year on Mother’s Day, I helped my grandson place flowers on his mother’s grave. Although Justin is only seven years old, he tries to be brave as he honors his mother’s memory. I can’t help thinking how proud she would be. Justin […]
Volume 2, Number 1, Winter 1993 Before I Had Time to Think A testimony of abortion after date rape pregnancy: “I realize that I was going through almost classic Post-Abortion Syndrome. Rape, Incest & Abortion: Searching Beyond the Myths Why abortion isn’t the answer in these “hard cases.” Accomplices in Incest One fifteen-year-old’s story of […]
Before I Had Time to Think by “Nancy Anders” It was May 19, 1973. I was pregnant from a date rape. I had tried to hide it from my parents but of course they found out. Then the pressure started. “How are you going to go to college with a baby?” “How are you going […]
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Accomplices in Incest Case Study: “Doris Kalasky” I am a victim of incest; one of the “hard cases” for abortion. I was raped by my father when I was fifteen years old. It was not the first time, nor would it be the last. However, this time, I became pregnant. One night, I became very […]