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Two Women Pregnant from Rape, Two Outcomes

by Sarah Terzo   In 2021, Janet Morana wrote a book for teens on abortion. She tells the story of  two women who became pregnant from rape. A Woman Who Aborted a Pregnancy from Rape One rape victim was Nicole from Virginia. She had an abortion at four weeks. Nicole says she came to “deeply…


Abortion Facilitates Sex Abuse: Documentation

by Rachel MacNair I recently wrote this item for our newsletter, Peace and Life Connections: Rachel Maddow had an October 12, 2021 segment  where she said, “One provider in Houston spoke of a 12-year-old patient who came in with her mother . . .  The 12-year-old said, mom it was an accident, why are they…


How Abortion is Useful for Rape Culture

by Rachel MacNair During this time of uproar over an allegation against Brett Kavanaugh of committing attempted rape when he was 17, I’d like to remark on the connection of the violence of rape with the violence of abortion. I see it much differently from many of the pundits. It’s a mark of social progress…


War Causes Abortion

by Rachel MacNair and Catherine Coyle This is a condensed version of Chapter 4 in Peace Psychology Perspectives on Abortion. References are in APA style – authors in parentheses, full citation at the bottom. War as an Instrument of Unchosen Abortion  In an article entitled “Abortion and War,” Emanuel Charles McCarthy (2011) points out what…


A Pro-Life Feminist Critique of the “Rape and Incest Exception”

Editor’s note: On May 29, 2024, the author found that the link to Shauna Prewitt’s article as a PDF no longer worked, and so this post is slight revised to link to the issue of the law journal that has the article; getting the article itself now involves a charge.   by Rachel MacNair Pregnancies resulting…