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Actor and comedian Robin Williams died August 11th from a suspected suicide. Fans from around the world are grieving the tragic loss of this talented actor and comedian. Such an act of desperation reveals Williams was clearly in great emotional pain. A headline on NBC News Online shares that Robin Williams Battled Demons for Decades Before His Death. Many are aware that Williams struggled for years with serious addiction issues. However a lesser known fact is that one of those demons was an abortion that took place in the 1970’s. From Robin Williams: A Biography by Andy Dougan … His...

Until late yesterday, I’d not read “Dear Abby” since the last time someone forwarded me a column with her advice on abortion. It’s been so long I can’t remember if came from the original “Dear Abby” (the late Pauline Phillips) or after her daughter, Jeanne, assumed the nom de plume (and the column) in 2002. In a column that ran Tuesday, a boyfriend wrote that he’d just found out that his girlfriend of nearly four years had an abortion when she was in high school. He explained that he’d overheard a conversation after which he inquired about the implication–that she’d...

News ‘It Was My Child, Too’Post-Abortive Men Find Their Voice BY ROBIN ROHRREGISTER CORRESPONDENTMarch 8-14, 2009 Issue | Posted 2/27/09 at 11:02 AM   STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Silent No More was originally intended to provide post-abortive women a forum to speak about their emotional and spiritual pain. But they didn’t know then that another great silence needed to be broken — the suffering of men who had participated in abortion decisions.Janet Morana, executive director of Priests for Life, and Georgette Forney, president of Anglicans for Life, cofounded Silent No More to provide women’s abortion testimonies at the March...

A second national conference on the negative effects of abortion on men has been held, and more may be scheduled.  The conference's purpose explores the revelation that men experience, according to LifeNews.com, profound regret and grief after an involvement in an abortion decision. Vicki Thorn of the National Office of Post-Abortion Reconciliation and Healing believes consideration and psychological care for post-abortive fathers is long overdue. "It's time we begin speaking about it, and that was my intent in being able to organize these two conferences -- that we begin to speak through the veil of science about the fact that there's more...