Spread A Message of Hope and Healing

Elliot Institute Publication Educates, Touches Lives

"If your paper would have been available to me in college,
I would never have had an abortion." –Nancy

As summer draws to a close, high school and college students across the country are returning to school. In addition to juggling classes, sports, social events and the other activities, many will be struggling with other serious issues - how to deal with an unplanned pregnancy, how to avoid an unwanted abortion, how to cope with the grief of a past abortion they cannot forget.

Like Nancy, these young people will be looking for answers. How
can I tell my parents I'm pregnant? How can I have a baby when the counselor says I won't be able to finish school ... my boyfriend will
leave me ... my parents will kick me out ... I have no money or
resources and don't know anyone who will help? Why am I so sad, depressed and angry after the counselor insisted everything would be okay after abortion? Am I crazy because no one else seems to feel
this way? Why didn't anyone tell me it would be like this?

Surveys of women who have had abortions found that most feel pressured to abort by others, and many would have carried to term under better circumstances or with real support from others. Most report feeling uncertain about abortion, yet receive no counseling or inadequate, inaccurate or deceptive information. Study after study has found that rates of suicide, depression, substance abuse and other serious problems increase drastically among women who have had abortions. Teens are especially vulnerable to being pressured or coerced into unwanted abortions and to having difficulty coping afterwards. Yet post-abortion trauma is routinely dismissed by "experts" and those struggling after abortion are told to forget about what happened.

Warn Students and Parents of  the Risks, Encourage Hope and Healing

Young people - and their parents - are in serious need of education about abortion risks and to have the pain, trauma, and injustice of abortion exposed and acknowledged. Hope and Healing, the Elliot Institute's 12-page newspaper insert on abortion issues and healing, is the perfect tool to convey the truth about abortion and let those suffering afterwards know they are not alone. This  publication will:

• reduce the abortion rate by discouraging the notion that abortion is a good solution to a crisis pregnancy,

• reduce the rate of unwanted abortions by helping those who would pressure women into abortion "for their own good" understand the long-term negative effects abortion will have on their loved ones,

• help foster post-abortion healing by letting those struggling with a past-abortion know they are not alone and encourage them to seek help through a post-abortion ministry,

• raise awareness of pregnancy- and abortion-related injustice, post-abortion trauma and the need for healing,

• help readers respond in an empathetic and understanding way to their loved ones who have experienced abortion, and

• communicate the pro-life community's pro-woman outreach and compassion

Hope and Healing includes informative Q&As on abortion's impact, compelling personal testimonies, and information on how to find help after abortion.

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   Places to Distribute Hope and Healing

 Hope and Healing is ideal for running as a paid insert in your local college, community, or local newspaper (more on this below). College pro-life, Christian and conservative groups can distribute copies at their school's organizational fair or other events, and community and church groups can distribute them at local fairs and festivals. Keep copies in the literature rack at your church. If you have a waiting room at your place of business (a doctor's office, salon, laundromat, etc.) put out copies for visitors to browse through.

Pricing and Ordering Information

We strive to make Hope and Healing available at the lowest cost possible so that more people can access this wonderful resource. A packet of 50 inserts is available for only $20 (U.S. shipping included), and we also offer very low prices for bulk orders. Click here for a price list or call 1-888-412-2676 to place an order or for information on pricing for more than 1,000 copies.

If you are interested in running Hope and Healing as a newspaper insert, you can contact churches, pro-life groups, crisis pregnancy centers, and other like-minded organizations and ask them to co-sponsor the insert with you. If there is a Catholic or Christian hospital in your area, they can draw on advertising and public education funds to distribute Hope and Healing as a mental health resource in the community.

You can also seek grants from regional foundations that support public health education. Sample grant proposals are posted on our web site at www.afterabortion.org.

To place an order or for more information, call 1-888-412-2676 or send an email to amy@afterabortion.info.

Hope and Healing has touched and changed many lives. With your help, it will touch more.  

 For Other Ways to Foster Healing, Visit:
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Run these encouraging, awareness-raising ads in newspaper classifieds, civic or church publications and bulletins, or print the bookmarks and business cards to hand out at fairs and special events or leave behind at offices, churches, and elsewhere.

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