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 […]
Clergy need to get this one right! Save The 1 has published two recent stories in which the pregnant rape victims’ clergy not only advised them that’s it’s acceptable to abort, but actually encouraged them to do so. One rape victim went through with the abortion, and the other did not. In other words, a […]
Just touch one, Lord. . . . My repeated prayer ever since I first told my story almost twenty years ago has been the same — for the Lord to somehow use my saga of shame and regret to help someone else. He’s always answered. The first time I shared my testimony publicly, a woman came up […]
I saw the recent news that Governor Tom Wolf vetoed the 20 week abortion ban here in Pennsylvania, highlighting the fact that the ban had no rape exception — even though he knows darn well he would have vetoed the bill anyway. This makes me so angry that politicians think that innocent children like my […]
During my pregnancy, I read stories of other women who had become pregnant by rape, sometimes twice daily. Those stories were a source of hope and made me feel like I wasn’t alone and reaffirmed that it was normal to love my child. I’m writing my story now in the hope that other woman will […]
This is something that has annoyed and angered me: “I’m pro-life except in cases of rape.” I can’t stand it. And the same old cliched, “It’s still a baby” response either. To get to my point, I’m going to go a little off point. I like Doctor Who. I watch it completely out of order […]
The morning of June 26, 1994, I woke up not feeling quite right. I was 25 weeks pregnant with the third of our four daughters. It wasn’t until later that evening when I started feeling the contractions that my husband, Forrest, took me to the hospital. When we arrived, the nurse tried to comfort us by […]
7-month pregnant gang rape survivor denied a late-term abortion by the Gujurat high court in India. With those kinds of news stories, we regularly see organizations like Amnesty International and Planned Parenthood International utilizing such stories to demand the legalization of abortion through all nine of months of pregnancy – not only for rape, but […]