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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.

I’ve read many of the same accounts as you. I, too, have read of women who say that they could recover from the rape & move on, but they cannot recover from the abortion.

I hope these stories open hearts & minds to what they are really doing when they advocate for the rape exception.

One thing that has really struck me is the generational effects of abortion. When a child is terminated in the womb, not only are they denied life, but all of their descendants. How many people have we truly lost after aborting 54 million Americans over the last 38 years??? Mind boggling!