Sadly in this world a stigma exists which is to me a kind of fear mixed with superstition – a wanting to hold the stigmatized person at arms-length or even ostracize them for fear of having whatever “tainted them” rub off on you. Rape victims have often been treated this way. Sexual assault is 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 […]
The 14th Amendment guarantees equal protection, but that protection does not come easily for those of us conceived in rape or incest. We are grateful to those elected officials like Congressman Steve King who are willing to defend our right to life even in the face of cruelty. It’s one thing for us to defend […]
I am 100% pro-life, so I do not support rape and incest exceptions or exceptions for the life of the mother. Please allow me to explain and to tell my birth story so that it will become apparent why it is that I believe this. I was conceived as the result of rape. My birthmother […]
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 […]
In the past few days, I had thousands of abortion proponents come on my Facebook page accusing me of being pro-rape because I actually love my life. Valuing my life does not make me pro-rape! I was raped myself when I was in law school. My abuser broke my jaw and I lost my front […]
We met when I was 16. He had just gotten home from boot camp for the military, and was a mutual friend of a girl I had known my whole life. We stayed up late and spent the whole night talking about our life stories and even watched the sunrise. Young and naive, I was […]
“They’re not going to believe you. Sign here.” That is what she told me when she gave me the pen and the custody agreement. “This is your best bet. Sign here. They are NOT going to believe you!” How did I get here??? It was the summer of 2016 . . . . After exchanging […]
I recently testified before both the Ohio Senate committee and House committee in support of the Heartbeat bill as someone conceived in rape and as a pro-life attorney. In the Senate, despite being the last to testify after four hours of proponent testimony, I was asked questions by a pro-choice Democrat on the committee. However, […]
Recently, a feminist who advocates for the rape exception and opposes the criminalization of abortion — yet has enjoyed a presence within the pro-life movement — posted a video and wrote an op-ed for a Dallas newspaper justifying voting for a pro-abortion Democrat for U.S. Senate, saying she broke the pro-life rule to only vote […]