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Post-Abortion Issues
Aborted Women: Silent No More by David C. Reardon. Chicago: Loyola University Press, 1987. Classic account of abortion aftermath. Personal accounts and survey findings delve into reasons prompting abortion choice ($10.95 in ppb).
Abortion & Healing: A Cry to Be Whole (2d ed., revised and expanded) by Michael T. Mannion. Kansas City, Mo.: Sheed & Ward, 1992 ($5.95).
Abortion Survivors by Philip G. Ney, M.D. and Marie A. Peeters. Booklet available from Human Life Intl. ($2.00).
After Abortion: Stories of Healing. Pamphlet. Liguori, Mo.: Liguori Publications ($1.00 ea.; quantity discounts).
Evangelium Vitae (The Gospel of Life) by John Paul II. Washington, D.C.: USCC, 1995. Also in Spanish ($7.95). Also available from Pauline Books & Media.
The Healing Choice: Your Guide to Emotional Recovery After Abortion by Candace De Puy and Dana Dovitch. New York: Simon & Schuster/Fireside, 1997. Secular psychotherapists acknowledge, for the first time in a full-length book, post-abortion pain/trauma and offer a secular self-help program of recovery ($12.00).
Identifying and Overcoming Post-abortion Syndrome. Pamphlet. Colorado Springs, Colo.: Focus on the Family (35¢ ea.; 50/$17.50).
The Jericho Plan: Breaking Down the Walls Which Prevent Post-Abortion Healing by David C. Reardon. Springfield, Ill.: Acorn Books, 1996. How to preach on abortion in a compassionate and unifying way and create a healing environment in your parish ($8.95).
No More Shall I Mourn. Pamphlet. Burtonsville, MD: Linking Education & Medicine. Available in Spanish. 24¢ ea., quantity discounts).
The Pain that Follows: Coping After an Abortion. Brochure. Lewiston, N.Y.: Life Cycle Books (50¢; 50/20¢ ea.; 100/15¢ ea., etc.).
Post-Abortion Aftermath, ed. by Michael T. Mannion. Kansas City, Mo.: Sheed & Ward, 1994. Collection of essays based on addresses at the Post-Abortion Summit Conference in Washington, D.C. ($12.95).
The Post-Abortion Review. Springfield, Ill.: The Elliott Institute. Quarterly publication focusing on post-abortion injuries. Summarizes research findings, offers personal testimonies and thoughtful analysis. Annual subscription, $20.
Rachel's Vineyard: A Psychological and Spiritual Journey of Post Abortion Healing by Theresa Karminski Burke with Barbara Cullen. New York: Alba House, 1995. A facilitator's manual for groups, designed for the trained counselor working with a spiritual director/pastoral counselor ($12.95).
When Someone You Know Has Had an Abortion. Pamphlet. Liguori, Mo.: Liguori Pub. ($1.00; quantity discounts).
Audiovisual
After the Choice. Post-abortive women share personal testimonies. Available from Life Cycle Books. 25 min. ($27.95).
Dear Children: A Story of Post-Abortion Healing. Liguori, Mo.: Liguori Pub. Award-winning video with personal testimonies and expert commentary. Also available in Spanish (30 min., $39.95; 10-min. condensed version, $19.95).
How to Help After an Abortion. Burtonsville, MD. Linking Education & Medicine. 3 hours. Videocassttes ($100.00). Audiocassettes ($25.00).
In Our Own Words. Cleveland, Ohio: American Portrait Films, Inc. 32 min. ($19.95).
Sexuality Education/Contraception
Evangelium Vitae by John Paul II. Washington, D.C.: USCC, 1995. Also available in Spanish ($7.95). Also available from Pauline Books & Media.
The Facts About the STD Epidemic. Brochure. Austin, Tex.: Medical Institute for Sexual Health ($7.50/50).
Humanae Vitae by Paul VI. Available from NCCB Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities (50¢).
Human Sexuality: A Catholic Perspective for Education and Lifelong Learning. Washington, D.C.: NCCB Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities ($9.95).
Is Sex Safe? Brochure explains facts about STDs and other risks of nonmarital sex. Available from Life Cycle Books (50¢; 100/15¢ ea.; 1,000/13¢ ea.).
Natural Family Planning, by the Diocesan Development Program for Natural Family Planning. Available from NCCB Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities. Brochure provides basic information on NFP methods and effectiveness (25¢ ea.; 100/$15.00; $120/1,000).
NFP Diocesan Activity Report, by the Diocesan Development Program for Natural Family Planning. Washington, D.C.: NCCB Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities. Quarterly newsletter with supplements. (Donations gratefully accepted.)
NFP Myths and Reality, by the Diocesan Development Program for Natural Family Planning. Available from the NCCB Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities. Ten misunderstood points concerning the methods of NFP and church teaching in an attractive brochure (25¢ ea.; $15/100; $120/1,000).
Natural Family Planning Bibliography, compiled by Richard J. Fehring and Robert T. Kambic. Washington, D.C.: Diocesan Development Program for Natural Family Planning, 1996. Available from NCCB Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities. Comprehensive listing of contemporary research that has formed the bases and established the effectiveness of methods of NFP. Information on breast-feeding and NFP, psycho-social aspects of NFP, monographs, proceedings, and classic articles ($12.95).
Original Unity of Man and Woman by John Paul II. Boston: Pauline Books & Media, 1981 ($3.75).
The Power of Abstinence by Kristine Napier. New York: Avon Books, 1996 ($11.00).
Real Love by Mary Beth Bonacci. Answers to the questions this popular chastity educator is most frequently asked. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1996. ($12.95).
Safe Sex? Brochure delivers chastity message with facts on condom ineffectiveness. Available from Life Cycle Books (50¢; 100/15¢ ea.; 1,000/13¢ ea.).
Sex: What You Don't Know Can Kill You by Joe S. McIlhaney, Jr., M.D. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Book House, 1997 ($8.95).
The Truth and Meaning of Human Sexuality: Guidelines for Education Within the Family. Pontifical Council for the Family, 1996. Available from Pauline Books & Media ($3.50).
Two Young Women. Brochure compares worries of sexually-active teen with the true freedom her chaste friend enjoys. Available from Life Cycle Books (50¢; 100/13¢ ea.; 1,000/11¢ ea.).
Why Humanae Vitae Was Right: A Reader, ed. by Janet Smith. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1993 ($24.95).
Audiovisual
The Myth of Safe Sex. Colorado Springs, Colo.: Focus on the Family. Dr. Dobson and Dr. McIlhaney explain emotional and medical reasons to be chaste. 52 min. ($23.95).
No Second Chance. STDs, AIDS and chastity in versions for Christian and public schools. 30 min. Available from Life Cycle Books ($19.95).
Sex Has a Price Tag. Wauwatosa, Wisc.: Family Life Council, Inc. First-rate video, packed with facts and good sense on physical, emotional, social and spiritual costs of not being chaste, featuring dynamic and entertaining Pam Stenzel. 58 min. ($22.00).
Sex, Lies & ... the Truth. Colorado Springs, Colo.: Focus on the Family. Celebrities, athletes and entertainers deliver chastity message in winning way. 30 min. ($19.95). Also available in public school version for $59.95.
Assisted Suicide
Print Dying Well: The Prospect for Growth at the End of Life by Ira Byock, M.D. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons/Riverhead Books, 1997. Dr. Byock, president of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, demonstrates how good care and companionship during life's final stage create an environment in which the dying can experience personal growth and moments of profound meaning ($24.95).
Euthanasia: Clinical Practice and the Law, ed. by Luke Gormally. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Co., 1994 ($12.95).
Euthanasia Examined: Ethical, Clinical and Legal Perspectives, ed. by John Keown. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Readable essays containing serious thought on both sides of euthanasia debate ($24.95 ppb).
Euthanasia ... When the Doctor Kills the Patient by John Willke, M.D. Cincinnati, Ohio: Hayes Publishing Co., Inc. Pamphlet (100/$15.00; 500/$65; 1,000/$120).
Evangelium Vitae by John Paul II. Washington, D.C.:USCC, 1995. Also available in Spanish ($7.95). Also available from Pauline Books & Media.
A Grave Danger: Physician Assisted Suicide, a reprint of Duquesne Law Review, Volume 35, 1. Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Leadership Foundation Press, 1996 ($15.00).
I Tell You a Mystery: Life, Death and Eternity by J. Christoph Arnold. Farmington, Pa.: Plough Publishing House, 1997. Facing death with hope, faith and love in personal stories and meditations ($12.00).
Life at Risk. Monthly newsletter of the NCCB Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities which tracks euthanasia trends in America. (No charge for individual subscriptions. Donations gratefully accepted.)
Midwife for Souls: Spiritual Care for the Dying—A Guide for Hospice Care Workers and All Who Live with the Terminally Ill by Kathy Kalina. Boston, Mass.: Pauline Books & Media, 1993 ($4.95).
Seduced by Death: Doctors, Patients and the Dutch Cure by Herbert Hendin, M.D. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1997. Dr. Hendin, executive director of the American Suicide Foundation and a professor of psychiatry at New York Medical College, explores the reality of euthanasia practice in the Netherlands in his eighth book ($27.50).
What You Need to Know About Euthanasia and the "Right to Die" by Mary Senander, co-founder of International Anti-Euthanasia Task Force. Available from Life Cycle Books. 32-page booklet ($1.95; 10-49/$1.50 ea.; 50+/$1.00 ea.).
When Death Is Sought: Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia in the Medical Context by The New York State Task Force on Life and the Law. Albany, N.Y.: Health Research Inc., 1994 ($11.00).
Audiovisual
Does Suffering Make Sense? by Peter Kreeft. Boston, Mass.: Pauline Books & Media. Two audiocassettes in vinyl binder, 40-50 min. each ($12.95).
Euthanasia in Holland, featuring Carlos Gomez, M.D. Kansas City, Mo.: Sheed & Ward. 18 min. ($29.95).
Final Blessing. Washington, D.C.: USCC, 1997. Catholic Communication Campaign funded this beautiful and thought-provoking documentary on the spiritual dimensions of the lives of the terminally ill. Distributed to NBC affiliates as part of "Horizons of the Spirit" series ($29.95).
Life at Risk: A Closer Look at Assisted Suicide. Twelve audiotapes of acclaimed March 1997 symposium of international experts at Catholic University of America, co-sponsored by the NCCB, CUA and the Center for Jewish and Christian Values. Available from Donehey & Associates ($50 for complete set in an album; individual tapes $5 each). Contact Donehey for individual topics at (540)371-0441 or donehey@aol.com.
When My Time Comes by Washington State Catholic Conference. Kansas City, Mo.: Sheed & Ward. 18 min. ($39.95).
Solidarity with Poor in Latin America
Print Crisis and Change, The Church in Latin America Today by Edward Cleary. New York: Orbis Books, 1985 ($16.00).
Encounter with the Living Jesus Christ: Way to conversion, communion and solidarity, 1996. Available from Origins, CNS Documentary Service. "Lineamenta" for the Special Assembly for America of the Synod of Bishops ($5.00).
Evangelii Nuntiandi (On Evangelization in the Modern World) by Paul VI. Available from USCC ($4.95).
From Power to Communion: Toward a New Way of Being Church Based on the Latin American Experience by Robert S. Pelton, CSC. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1994 ($14.00 ppb).
Pacem in Terris (Peace on Earth) by John XXIII. Available from USCC ($3.95).
Path from Puebla: Significant Documents of the Latin American Bishops since 1979, compiled by U.S. bishops' Secretariat for Latin America. Washington, D.C.: USCC ($14.95).
Popular Voices in Latin American Catholicism by Daniel H. Levine. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1992 ($19.95).
Populorum Progressio (On the Development of Peoples) by Paul VI. Available from USCC ($2.95).
Redemptoris Missio (On the Permanent Validity of the Church's Missionary Mandate by John Paul II. Available from USCC ($6.95).
Sharing Faith Across the Hemisphere by Mary M. McGlone for the NCCB Committee on the Church in Latin America. Washington, D.C.: USCC, 1997. An excellent overview of the strong and enduring bonds between the Church in the United States and Latin America; makes a compelling case for greater solidarity. Also available in Spanish ($19.95).
Sollicitudo Rei Socialis (On Social Concern) by John Paul II. Available from USCC ($5.95).
Audiovisual
Sharing Faith Across the Hemisphere. Touches, challenges and inspires viewer to do more. Washington, D.C.: USCC, 1997. 28 min. Also available in Spanish ($19.95).
Who Are My Sisters and Brothers? NCCB Office for Pastoral Care of Migrants and Refugees. Washington, D.C.: USCC. 27 min. ($19.95).
Yo Trabajo la Tierra (I Work the Land). Video portrait of a migrant family. 13 min. Available from USCC ($14.95).
Adoption
Adoption/Abortion. New brochure available from Life Cycle Books (30¢ ea.; 100/10¢ ea.; 1,000/8¢ ea.).
Adoption: A Loving Choice. Brochure available from Life Cycle Books (50¢ ea.; 100/15¢ ea.; 1,000/13¢ ea.).
Adoption: Making a Plan for Life by June M. Ring. Ligonier, Pa.: PLAN, 1995. Distributed by Loving & Caring, Inc. Participant's Handbook ($5.00) and Facilitator's Manual ($25.00) for use in training counselors in crisis pregnancy centers and adoption agencies.
A Guide to Adoption by Douglas R. Donnelly. Booklet. Colorado Springs, Colo.: Focus on the Family, 1982 (35¢).
Audiovisual
Adoption Options. Stafford, Va.: American Life League. Adopting and parenting children with special needs. Adoptive parents of three Down's Syndrome children confirm their value and potential as they delight in watching their development ($11.50).
Choosing a Home for My Baby. Colorado Springs, Colo.: Focus on the Family. Audiocassette with Dr. Dobson and an adoption panel ($7.00 suggested donation).
The Heart of the Matter. Cleveland, Ohio: American Portrait Films. 24-min. video designed for crisis pregnancy counseling, with positive discussions of adoption and single parenting ($29.95).
A Sensible Choice. Bethany Productions, Grand Rapids, Mich. 30-min. training video for pregnancy counselors to present adoption as an alternative to their abortion-minded clients ($49.95, also from Life Cycle Books).
Partial-Birth Abortion
Life Insight. Washington, D.C.: NCCB Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities. Newsletter published ten times annually. Supported by a grant from the Knights of Columbus. (No charge for individual subscription. Donations gratefully accepted.)
Audiovisual
Curtain of Silence: The Truth About Partial-Birth Abortion. TV/radio anchorman exposes media silence and misinformation on partial-birth abortion, all the facts and the pro-abortion spin. NCCB Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities, 1996. 20 min. ($12.95).
Partial-Birth Abortion: Riveting Eyewitness Testimony. Dayton, Ohio: One More Soul. 28 min. Talk delivered by Brenda Pratt Shafer, R.N. Also available from American Portrait Films ($19.95).
The Procedure. San Antonio, Tex.: Mission City Television, Inc. Available from Doheney & Assoc. First-rate, better-than-TV-quality coverage of partial-birth abortion. 29 min. ($19.95 for one copy; addtl. copies $9.95 ea.).
Miscellaneous Topics
Catholic Teaching on Pro-Life Issues by Rev. Anthony Zimmerman. Kagoshima-ken, Japan: Humanae Vitae Research Institute, 1996. Available from Human Life Intl. ($12.00).
Death by Default: A Policy of Fatal Neglect in China's State Orphanages. New York: Human Rights Watch, 1996 ($20.00).
The Facts of Life: An Authoritative Guide to Life and Family Issues by Brian Clowes. Front Royal, Va.: Human Life Intl., 1997. First-rate resource book, covers all life issues with facts, references and clear explanations of Catholic teaching ($19.95).
Love Them Both: Questions and Answers about Abortion by John C. Willke, M.D. and Barbara H. Willke. Cincinnati, Ohio: Hayes Publishing Co., 1997. New, comprehensive guide up-dating the classic Abortion: Questions & Answers ($4.95).
Not My Own: Abortion & the Marks of the Church by Terry Schlossberg and Elizabeth Achtemeier. Grand Rapids, Mich.: W.B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1995. Why Christianity compels a pro-life view ($11.00).
The Right Choice: Pro-Life Sermons, ed. by Paul T. Stallsworth. Nashville, Tenn.: Abingdon Press, 1997. Sermons and talks by pro-life religious leaders ($14.95).
The Ryan Report. Newsletter of STOPP Intl. All the latest on Planned Parenthood's operations and activities, including presence in public school sex education programs. ($25 annual subscription).
The Scarlet Survey by Kevin Sherlock. Akron, Ohio: Brennyman Books, 1997. Chronicles women and girls exploited by legal abortion from public records and news accounts. Editorial comments coarse at times, but account valuable as an accurate inside picture of the industry; companion to Victims of Choice ($19.95).
Victims of Choice by Kevin Sherlock. Akron, Ohio: Brennyman Books, 1996. Names and circumstances of more than 150 women who died from legal abortion are detailed, along with other sordid details of abortion industry, from public records and newspapers. Thoroughly debunks "safe and legal" claim ($19.95).
Directory of Resource Providers
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ABINGDON PRESS
P.O. Box 801
Nashville, TN 37202
(800) 251-3320
ACORN BOOKS
P.O. Box 7348
Springfield, IL 62791
(217) 546-9522
ALBA HOUSE
2187 Victory Boulevard
Staten Island, NY 10314
(800) 343-2522
AMERICAN LIFE LEAGUE
P.O. Box 1350
Stafford, VA 22555
(703) 659-4171
AMERICAN PORTRAIT FILMS
P.O. Box 19266
Cleveland, OH 44119
(800) 736-4567
AVON BOOKS
Div. of Hearst Corp.
1350 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10019
(800) 223-0690
BAKER BOOK HOUSE
P.O. Box 6278
Grand Rapids, MI 49516
(800) 877-2665
BETHANY PRODUCTIONS
901 Eastern Avenue, N.E.
Grand Rapids, MI 49503
(616) 224-7413
BRENNYMAN BOOKS
P.O. Box 2629
Akron, OH 44309
(330) 644-8507
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
40 West 20th Street
New York, NY 10011
(800) 872-7423
DIOCESAN DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FOR NATURAL FAMILY PLANNING
3211 Fourth St., N.E.
Washington, DC 20017
(202) 541-3238
DONEHEY & ASSOCIATES
Box 236
Fredericksburg, VA 22404
(540) 371-0441
(800) 371-3404
W.B. EERDMANS PUB. CO.
255 Jefferson Avenue, S.E.
Grand Rapids, MI 49503
(800) 253-7521
ELLIOTT INSTITUTE
The Post-Abortion Review
Box 7348
Springfield, IL 62791
(217) 546-9522
FAMILY LIFE COUNCIL
2416 North 74 Street
Wauwatosa, WI 53213
(414) 771-2965
FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
8605 Explorer Drive
Colorado Springs, CO 80995
(800) A-FAMILY
HACKETT PUBLISHING
P.O. Box 44937
Indianapolis, IN 46244
(317) 635-9250
HAYES PUBLISHING
6304 Hamilton Avenue
Cincinnati, OH 45224
(513) 681-7559
HEALTH RESEARCH INC.
P.O. Box 7126
Albany, NY 12224
(518) 439-7286
HUMAN LIFE INTERNATIONAL
4 Family Life
Front Royal, VA 22630
(540) 635-7884
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
485 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10017
(212) 972-8400
IGNATIUS PRESS
2515 McAllister Street
San Francisco, CA 94118
(415) 387-2324
LIFE CYCLE BOOKS
Box 420
Lewiston, NY 14093
(800) 214-5849
LIGUORI PUBLICATIONS
One Liguori Drive
Liguori, MO 63057
(314) 464-2500
LINKING EDUCATION & MEDICINE
P.O. Box 357
Burtonsville, MD 20866
(301)384-9229
LOVING & CARING, INC.
1905 Olde Homestead Lane
Lancaster, PA 17601
(717) 293-3230
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY PRESS
3441 North Ashland Avenue
Chicago, IL 60657
(312) 281-1818
MISH
Medical Institute for Sexual Health
P.O. Box 4919
Austin, TX 78765
(800) 892-9484
NCCB SECRETARIAT FOR PRO-LIFE ACTIVITIES
3211 Fourth Street, N.E.
Washington, DC 20017
(202) 541-3070
FAX: (202) 541-3054
W.W. NORTON & CO.
500 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10110
(800) 223-2584
ONE MORE SOUL
616 Five Oaks Avenue
Dayton, OH 45406
(800) 307-7685
ORBIS BOOKS
P.O. Box 308
Maryknoll, NY 10545
(914) 941-7636
ORIGINS
CNS Documentary Service
3211 Fourth St, NE
Washington, DC 20017
(202) 541-3284
PAULINE BOOKS & MEDIA
50 St. Paul's Avenue
Boston, MA 02130
(800) 876-4463
PITTSBURGH LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION PRESS
100 Ross Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15219
(412) 281-3752
PLOUGH PUBLISHING HOUSE
Spring Valley Bruderhof
Route 381 North
Farmington, PA 15437
(800) 521-8011
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
41 William Street
Princeton, NJ 08540
(800) 777-4726
G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS
200 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10016
(800) 631-8571
SHEED & WARD
P.O. Box 419492
Kansas City, MO 64141
(800) 333-7373
SIMON & SCHUSTER
1230 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10020
(212) 698-7000
STOPP INTERNATIONAL
The Ryan Report
P.O. Box 8
LaGrangeville, NY 12540
(914) 473-3316
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
P.O. Box L
Notre Dame, IN 46556
(219) 631-6346
USCC PUBLISHING SERVICES
3211 Fourth Street, N.E.
Washington, DC 20017
(800) 235-8722