ABORTION RESOURCES

 

ORGANIZATIONS

 

Abortion Changes You

This confidential space is for those who are touched by abortion, whether the experience happened recently or years ago.  Abortion Changes You is a refuge for those who wish to tell their story and begin the process of healing.  See also there Resource

page.

 

Alan Guttmacher Institute 
111 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10003 - An independent, nonprofit corporation for research, policy analysis, and public education.

 

Alternatives Group
1070 S. Santa Fe Avenue, Suite 26, Vista, CA 92084

Birthright

11235 Southwestern, Chicago, IL 60643

Carenet

Sterling, VA- Crisis Pregnancy Center-associated

 

Catholics United for Life
New Hope, Kentucky 40052

 

Focus on the Family
Colorado Springs, CO 80995-0001

 

Pearson Foundation
P.O. Box 908, Hardy, AR 72542

 

Ramah International
A non-profit ministry designed to outline post-abortion sydrome internationally by offering hope of healing to those who had an abortion, minister to those in a crisis pregnancy situation, and educate, equip and encourage those working with post-abortion and crisis pregnancy cases.

 

Reproductive Service & Adoption Affiliates
109 E. 40th, Austin, TX 78751 - A pro-choice organization.

Save-A-Life

1480 McGuire Road, Birmingham, Alabama 35216, Phone: (205) 979-0302,
Fax: (205) 979-2270

The National Adoption Information Clearinghouse

 5640 Nicholson Lane, Ste. 300, Rockville, MD 20852. Tel: (301) 231-6512; Fax: (301) 984-8527

 

 

ARTICLES

Begley, S., Hager, M., Glick, D., & Foote, J. (1993, February 22). "Cures From the Womb."

Newsweek, pp. 49-51.

 

"Can States Restrict a Minor’s Access to Abortion?" (1987, April 3). Christianity Today, 31, pp. 44, 46.

Woodward, K.L., Hager, M., & Glick, D. (1993, February 22). "A Search for Limits."

Newsweek, pp. 52-53.

 

BOOKS

Batchelor, E., Jr. (ed.). (1982). Abortion: The Moral Issues.

New York, NY: Pilgrim Press. This collection of short articles by various authors addresses issues surrounding abortion.

Callahan, D. (1970). Abortion: Law, Choice and Morality

. London: Macmillian Co., Collier-Macmillian LTD.

Candace, D.P. & Donitch, D. (1997). The Healing Choice: Your Guide to Emotional Recovery after an Abortion

. Fireside Books.

Colker, R. (1992). Abortion and Dialogue: Pro-choice, pro-life and American Law

. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.

 

Conn, J.L. (1989). "Church, State, and Abortion: How Missouri Religious Lobbyists Brought Abortion Issue Back before the U.S. Supreme Court. "Church And State, 42, pp. 4-6.

Davis, J.J. (1985). Evangelical Ethics: Issues Facing the Church Today

. Phillipsburg, NJ: Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing.  Davis discusses important ethical issues from an evangelical perspective.

Fredenburg, Michaelene. (2008). Changed: Making Sense of Your Own or Your Loved One's Abortion Experience

. New York: Perspectives  Many men, women, grandparents, siblings, other family members and friends are seeking to make sense of their own or a loved one's abortion experience. Whether you have personally experienced abortion, someone close to you has, or you are seeking to sensitively and compassionately communicate with others about abortion- this book is a safe place to begin. Changed provides a place that is set apart from politics, from labels, from debate. It seeks to convey the real experiences of real people and offers interactive suggestions to begin the healing process.

Gorman, M.J. (1982). Abortion and the Early Church

. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity. The book offers detailed accounts of differing views on abortion from varying cultural perspectives.

Hunter, J.D. (1994). Before the Shooting Begins: Searching for Democracy in America’s Culture War

. New York & Toronto: The Free Press of Macmillan.  The author of Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America (Basic Books, 1991) emphasizes he is not talking merely about conflicts of public opinion, but about "competing moral visions" that shape society and its institutions. He attempts to take us beyond the fire of activism and the barrages of dogmatic critics to real discussion about the moral foundation of pluralistic, urban society. "If the culture war is really a war over first principles of how we will order our lives together, then the only just and democratic way beyond the culture war is through it—by facing up to the hard, tedious, perplexing, messy, and seemingly endless task of working through what kind of people we are and what kind of communities we will live in...(The abortion controversy) not only mirrors the culture war as a whole, it has been a centerpiece of our postmodern politics (the politics of the body) for many years. Abortion remains the knottiest moral and political dilemma of the larger culture war, contested now for more than two decades with little hope of a satisfying resolution...we may discover that the question is not about women versus unborn children, but about what kind of society is it that creates this kind of forced selection to begin with."

Kluger-Bell, K. (1998). Unspeakable Losses: Understanding the Experience of Pregnancy Loss, Miscarriage, and Abortion

. W. W. Norton & Co. This book deals with deep losses that are often minimized.

Kreeft, P. (1983). The Unaborted Socrates

. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press. The book unites a debate on several major issues surrounding abortion.

Lader, L. (1966). Abortion

. New York, NY: Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc.

Mall, D. & Watts, W.F. (1979). The Psychological Aspects of Abortion

. Washington, D.C.: University Publications of America, Inc. Sponsored by Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University.  In short excerpts from several medical professionals, this book presents scientific information on abortion.

Matthews-Greene, F. (1997). Real Choices: Listening to Women Looking for Alternatives to Abortion

. Conciliar Press. This author attempts a positive approach to the deadlocked debate in helping mothers and babies with compassionate and realistic options.

Nooman, J.T. (ed.). (1970). Morality of Abortion: Legal and Historical Perspectives

. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Powell, J. (1981). Abortion: The Silent Holocaust

. Allen, TX: Argus Communications.

Reardon, D.C. (1987). Aborted Women: Silent no More

. Chicago IL: Loyola University Press - This is a report of the Committee to Study the Matter of Abortion, presented to the 38th General Assembly of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, May 24-29, 1971, Great Commission Publication, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1971, revised 1984.

Rice, C.E. (1979). Beyond Abortion: The Theory and Practice of the Secular State

. Chicago, IL: Franciscan Herald Press - This work specifically addresses ‘how and why the abortion battle began and the direction it is heading in.’

 

PERIODICALS

 

 

First Things

 

Human Life Review

 

National Right To Life News

Religious Studies Review

 

Live and let live. (Editorial). (1993, January 15). Commonwealth, CXX(1), 3-4.

 

OVERVIEW

This article discusses the recent clash in the New York City school system over the multicultural curriculum, "Children of the Rainbow." One part of the curriculum that stirred protest was the elementary segment that included a story book, Heather Has Two Mommies. The story is about a child conceived through artificial insemination being raised by two lesbian moms.

The development of a multicultural curriculum started several years ago as an effort to teach tolerance and reduce prejudice in the public schools; along the way, it acquired units on gays and lesbians and homosexual family groups. The particular curriculum in New York City sailed through under pressure from the Gay and Lesbian Teachers Association. Though much of the opposition has come from Catholics, there is broad consensus from parents who "are deeply troubled about what their children will be taught in schools on the subject of homosexuality." The writer of this article notes several lessons from this New York City conflict:

• "Love me, love my lifestyle" cannot be the foundation for the tolerance, respect, and civil rights that gays and lesbians want and deserve.
• Do not introduce moral conflicts into the classroom when adults themselves are deeply and honestly conflicted.
• Political correctness is a fatal barrier to open and honest debate about such moral disagreements.

The issue centers around a statement by Richard Vigilante in The New York Times: "Rather than asking us to live together in peace despite our deepest disagreements, enforced diversity asks us to surrender those disagreements, to pretend that our deepest beliefs do not matter and to shed them for a government-enforced least common denominator of values." (1992, December 12)

QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION AND DISCUSSION

1. What is the "Children of the Rainbow" curriculum and what conflict is it causing in the New York City School system? Why?
2. Discuss each of the editor’s three lessons. What do each mean? Do you agree or disagree with each point? Why?
3. What do you think the term "enforced diversity" means? Do you agree with vigilante’s comment about its necessity? How is this different from racism and segregation? What about Jesus’ words to love our neighbor and even our enemies?

IMPLICATION

This is a fair and balanced article regarding the issues of multiculturalism and homosexuality. The effect of this conflict is important, because it has awakened much of America to the subversive goals of many homosexuals and the sleek manner in which a curriculum can be altered with minimal "checks and balances." This conflict has also helped awaken parents to the great need of staying active in their children’s education. The three lessons mentioned are on-target and provide an excellent framework for further discussion.

Bill Finley cCYS

New Moon: The Magazine for Young Girls and their Dreams. Subscription information: New Moon, P.O. Box 3587, Duluth, MN 55803-3587. On the Web at http://www.newmoon.org.

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