Many people don’t understand how rape victims process their experiences, including acknowledging the rape, reporting the crime, handling a resulting pregnancy and how we love our children despite the way they were conceived. I’ve been silent for a long time due to the way the military handled everything after I reported the rape, and I’m […]
My experiences with crisis pregnancies have made me adamantly pro-life, with a perspective I could never have imagined. I got pregnant at 16 by my 18 year old boyfriend when I ran away from home; I got life-threateningly pregnant again at 22 by my abusive addict boyfriend; and I got pregnant at 24 by a […]
Hollywood actress Ashley Judd has been known for her vocal support of abortion, but her more recent rhetoric is even more troubling to me because I was conceived in rape and also became pregnant with my now 2-year-old when I was gang-raped,. At the 2019 Women in the World Summit in New York, Judd told […]
First of all, let me say that this has been a long time coming. It has been years for me, and God has done great things in my heart and healing has since been achieved. I am using my real first name, but all others involved will not be mentioned for sake of privacy . […]
We want to believe so many things in life, like the IT things, don’t affect us, that we can move beyond them or through them and they will not determine our well-being or our happiness. The IT, can be many things — natural disasters or disasters of our own making, although most of the time […]
During Christmas break of my Sophomore year, at age 16, I stayed with my 24 year old 2nd cousin. One night, she had a 19 year old guy come over who she’d met in a chat room. Everyone was drinking, and I believe that our drinks must have been drugged. I briefly “came to” in […]