What exceptions do you make? What about a teenaged girl who has been testing positive for heroine and has been in and out of jail? Should she have had the choice to abort me? What about a baby who the doctors say will have a lot of serious health problems when she’s born? Should my […]
That is probably the question I have heard the most in the last five years. Every time I get asked that question, I have the same general answer: “She is doing okay, but the doctors still have not figured out _____.” I shock myself with how many medical terms I now understand without ever having […]
by Christine Pokriefka After I read an article about athiest Richard Dawkins tweeting out that it is “immoral” to not abort babies with Down Syndrome because they are “diagnosed before they have human feelings,” I posted some comments on Facebook, then I took my son for a car ride. The quote by Richard Dawkins was […]
Pro-Choice Student: Are you still pro-life in cases of rape? Nick: Yes, I don’t see the crimes of a father as justification for abortion. Pro-Choice Student: The kid is just going to be a painful reminder for the mother and detrimental to society. Nick: Well, I was conceived in date-rape. Pro-Choice Student: Oh….Well, I’m glad […]
By Jesi Smith: Wife, Mother of 5, Chief of Household Operations, Superintendent, Personal Nurse, Defender of “the least of these” and SaveThe1.com speaker. I am new to this journey. My daughter is only 5 years old. She is mentally and physically disabled, still small enough to carry, quiet…mostly, and has not developed the larger, louder, and strange […]
My mother was raped; many would say I am the rapist’s baby. Those mothers who have been raped will quickly say their child is their baby, not the rapist’s. In my case, I was never the rapist’s baby, nor my mother’s. Mary Rathke, Savethe1 Speaker from Michigan Mothers whether you love them or hate them, they are […]
By Darlene Pawlik, Savethe1 speaker- practicing nurse, wife and mother of 5, conceived in rape, molested by her biological father, then became pregnant by rape after being trafficked from age 14-18, when she escaped to a maternity home to avoid a forced abortion. http://www.savethe1.com/?page_id=667When Norma McCorvey was approached, she agreed to the terms laid out by the lawyers; […]