SInce you like to ask pointless questions in an effort to divert from the topic, I have a question for you:
http://www.rebeccakiessling.com/about_rebecca.html
Grunthor, meet Rebecca. Since she is a product of rape, I’d like to know if you want to explain to her that her life is worth less than yours or mine, and that by giving birth to her, she imprisoned & punished her mother??
That’s my question for you. But since you seem to play the avoidance game, I won’t hold my breath waiting for an answer.
Where have I advocated for abortion in the case of rape? Rather I have advocated for the rape victim to have a choice. You see no difference. I can’t help you.;
SurroundedbyBlue, I am so glad you brought up Rebecca! I am sure you have heard of Juda Myers too. http://www.choices4life.org/ Her mother was attacked by 8 men.
Grunthor, I do hope you check out these links and stories that SurroundbyBlue and I have provided. I once held that position you did. I had already changed my views once I read Rebecca Kiessling’s story but her testimony just sealed that conviction even moreso. Her page has many stories of others who suffered rape or discovered they were born of rape. I pray these accounts soften your heart.
The famous Gospel singer Ethel Waters was born of rape (her mother was around 12 or 13). There’s Fox News correspondant Kelly Wright who told about his own conception from rape. SurroundedbyBlue (or anyone else), do you know of any other people who have shared stories?
The book Victims and Victors tells about women who were raped and got pregnant and their experiences in both having the baby or their experiences of aborting. It dispels many myths about women who become pregnant of rape. http://afterabortion.org/2005/victims-and-victors-speaking-out-about-their-pregnancies-abortions-and-children-resulting-from-sexual-assault/
I remember hearing from one woman that the abortion “was like a second rape” or the other woman who said, “I could forgive the rapist for the rape but couldn’t forgive myself for the abortion”.
One story that touched me was the young teenage girl who had been gangraped in England. She said her mother was the only one who supported giving the baby life. When she saw the baby on the ultrasound, she said an overwhelming feeling of fierce protection for that baby overtook her. Her story is on Rebecca Kiessling’s website.
Lee Ezell’s story tells of how she was raped, chose to give birth and made an adoption plan. The daughter, Julie, found her later and they reunited. Julie’s husband thanked Lee for “choosing life ....for giving me my wife, Julie”. http://leeezellstory.com/
I know someone personally who was born of rape. She’s not famous and she’s like me....a wife and mom who adores her family. I see her husband, children and grandchildren and think of a whole family line gone had she been given the death penalty for just merely committing the “crime” of being conceived.
I once was for “exceptions” at one time in my life but I am a daughter of someone who was adopted. I am so grateful that she was allowed life and I am so grateful for MY life as well as my sister’s, brother’s, nieces’, nephews’ and my children’s lives. I don’t know the circumstances of my mother’s conception. After I no longer believed in this, it hit me that I could have been arguing FOR my own mother’s death by dismemberment.