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i learned at 18, that i wasconceived when my birth motherwas abducted by a serial rapist i didn'tknow the details all i knew was that he wascaucasian, and of large build and i thought that sounds likea police description and my case worker confirmedwith me that she had been raped and the police referred her toa rape counsellor and the rape counselorsuggested an abortion

my birth-mother's sisterhelped to schedule abortions she made it clear to me whenwe met that if abortion had beenlegal she would have aborted me even if she had to do it allover again she said, when iasked her and that was, of course,devastating to hear now my birth-mother actuallychanged her mind about that sixyears later she told me that, when, aftermy niece had a baby her first great-grandchild

out of an unplanned teenagepregnancy my birth-mother told me thatshe had changed her mind aboutabortion when people make the rapeexception or when they say thatthey're pro-choice, especially incases of rape that's like saying to me that i think your mothershould have been able to abortyou which is like saying if i hadmy way you'd be dead right now and some people say, you know it's nothing against youpersonally

well, it affects me,personally when i was 17 years old was a senior in high school i attended a halloween party at the university of kentucky,in lexington there was a, a man that hadcome back with us and had, had agreed to get aride from wherever we were going soas to not inconvenience us so when we got back there

everyone kind-of went to bedbehind closed doors and, um, that night, the sameman drugged and he raped me a few weeks later um, i, i found out i waspregnant and, um, i just i wanted it, i wanted it over i wanted it- it wasn't myfault and i didn't deserve to, youknow

have all this struggle andturmoil in my life um, because of someone else'schoice society tells me- tells theworld that you can't bring a rape babyinto it you know, that there'ssomething wrong with thesechildren and that, that they don'tdeserve to be alive. they don'tdeserve life um, you know, society wouldhave robbed me had i listened you know, had i gone with theflow in a vulnerable situation

had i done what society toldme to do i would have been robbed of somuch joy and, and so much healing um, but you know that wouldhave been nothing compared to what my son wouldhave been robbed of and, and that's his life, youknow, his his, his chance to love. andlaugh and, and be whoever he wantsto be when i was 12 years old

i was, uh, i was walking downthe street and i was abducted i was brutally raped by twomen and i became pregnant and, i used to feel like mylife had no value and that it was my fault and, it doesn't matter howmany times i used to shower i was feeling so dirty and i wanted to kill myself

i was taken to the hospital and the doctor told me that iwas pregnant from the rape and that i should have anabortion that is was my right that i did not have to livewith the consequences of therape and that the baby would alwaysremind me of what i went through and i asked the doctor if i have the abortion would i forget the rape?

would i forget all the painand suffering? and he said no so then i thought why should i kill my baby? why should i give my baby thedeath penalty? when it wasn't my baby'sfault? and, just knowing that it wasinside of me i know that it was only mybaby so i kept my baby

and, um, when i had my babygirl she gave me hope and shehelped me to go on in my life when she was a little girl,she used to tell me mommy thank you for giving melife thank you for keeping me and that's when i realized that she was the one who gaveme my life back she is now is a 22-year-oldwoman she's a beautiful woman, verycaring

and she helped me to move on and she helped me to heal and i never saw my rapistthrough my daughter because she showed me that itwas a different person that had nothing to do withthat night i think abortion in cases ofrape is like a double-rape toyourself because on the first rape, youhad no control over that

but if you have the abortionyou have the control to choose life, over killing somebody so my daughter has beenhelping me to become a better person i cannot imagine being withoutmy daughter she is part of me, and we grew up together and and, you know with all thepain and suffering

if i had to go through thatagain, i will just to love my daughter because she saved me and even that it was very hardand it wasn't easy i would definitely go throughthat again at the age of 17 after having lived most of mylife in an abusive situation withextended family i conceived through incestuousrape

i, uh, i was very confused and i was very pressured byfamily members and by friends around me to abort my child i had been raised in thechurch uh, i was a born-againchristian and i understood that this wasa life and i understood at17-years-old that i wasn't going to takethat life

i had an aunt and uncle that were very instrumental in helping me make decisions about keeping my child oradopting my child out but very supportive in notaborting i also had a minister that helped me to find a placeto go and live i went to a salvation armymaternity home and lived there for theduration of my pregnancy

and the salvation army did seeto my my clothing my food, my medical care my child was conceived in rape that doesn't make her lessthan human my child has been a hugeblessing in my life she's been the light of mylife and she's the reason that i've become the human-beingthat i am had i had an abortion i would have remained in thesituation that i was in

and my pregnancy and mydaughter gave me purpose it gave me something to strivefor and it gave me hope for abetter life the idea that a woman who israped has a right to kill a child is completely negative it doesn't help the woman andit doesn't help the baby a woman is stronger than that a woman does not need to betold

she should kill a child inorder to feel better about whathappened it's not going to make therape go away it just means that now i'vebeen raped and now i'm the mother of adead baby also it just heaps insult uponinjury women are stronger than this women don't need to aborttheir children in order to, uh, get past arape their children will help themget past a rape

producing life and producingsomething very positive from a negative experience is very empowering for a womanto do when people use rape as anexcuse for abortion to be legal it makes my skin literallycrawl because i know that it's notan excuse because i lived it first-hand the abortion did not make myrape any better in fact,

it made it 100 times worse because not only was i dealingwith killing my child it was constant nightmaresabout the rape over, and over, and over again the two mashed together i could never get over therape fully because i was also having todeal with the abortion and so, i understand thatpeople want to be gentle withrape victims i know it's hard for people toreally understand how

you deal with a woman who hasjust been horribly violated in one of the worst ways and that you think well shehas to carry a rapist's baby that's just going to make herhave to re-live the rape overand over again so abortion is really the onlyanswer so she can move on but what they don't realize is you're just adding an1000-pound weight on top of therape you're not making it betteryou're making it worse since then, i've been able tomeet other women

who conceived in rape who either chose to raisetheir child or chose to have a to givetheir child up for adoption and their stories are so muchdifferent than mine because in choosing life forthe baby that they conceived inrape it was a big part of theirhealing from the rape they were able to get thesupport they needed to deal with the rape and then they were able to seesomething good

an innocent child and theywere, um i know a young girl right nowwho's 17 who was raped when she was 14 and she chose life she has this beautifultwo-year-old boy and i look at her, and i thinkback to where i was and it's amazing thedifference because she's not carrying anyof that shame or guilt of killing her child

but there is hope i have three sons now, whohave or would have had, an olderbrother and at some point i'm gonnahave to tell them about their brother because i can speak out now because the lord has healed me and i can talk about him his death wasn't in vain

that i bring him honor when italk about him and i bring him honor when ifight for other children to not be aborted and that when i help otherwomen who've had abortions to go through their healingprocess it honors my child when you make the rapeexception that i deserved the deathpenalty for the crimes of myfather according to the united statessupreme court

he didn't even deserve thedeath penalty there's no death penalty forrapists, even for childmolesters they said that that's crueland unusual punishment and that's the thing- is thatthey talk about how much theycare about women but they could care less aboutme, and i challenge them now, tell me, what good is myright to anything, as a woman if i don't have my right tolife? and they can never answer thatquestion because all other rights areirrelevant

if you don't have your rightto life i went to the hospital to gettested, to make sure that i wasclean but i didn't tell anyone thati was raped i didn't go to the police oranything and i just wanted to go onliving my life and about four months later ifound out that i was pregnant later that day, the more i satand i thought about it you know, i realized that,it's not the child's fault it wasn't my fault, and, ididn't want to kill my baby

so i chose to keep my baby and, he's now three years old to be completely honest,there's days that i don't even remember how hewas created i don't think about it there's weeks, months, that goby that i don't think about it and it doesn't bother me i look at my son that- likehe's my son and i love him

and i wouldn't change him forthe world i don't believe that abortionis right in any case, because i went through rape, and iwent through my pregnancy and, i got through it and i believe that, if iwould've had an abortion i would be more scarred andmore hurt now than i would have, choosinglife my son is a blessing my son is an awesome child

i couldn't ask for a betterson and, it wasn't his fault howhe was created and it wasn't my fault how hewas created so why does the child have tobe punished with death because of someone else's poordecision i was born two-and-a-halfyears before roe v. wade the landmark decision, um that made abortion legal

and when i was, uh, so i wasadopted into a loving and wonderfulhome and, uh, raised, alwaysknowing that i was adopted it was always just told to mefrom the time i was little and, so i have alwaysappreciated the gift that mymother gave me: of life and the family that godblessed me with and when i was about 18 idecided to search i wanted to find my biologicalmother well the farthest i got was mymaternal grandmother

and she was very angry atbeing found i knew that my- thecircumstances surrounding mybirth were secretive my mother had moved up herefrom the south to have me so just from thenon-identifying informationthat i was given i knew that it wasn't a happything for my grandmother to find outthat i had contacted her orfound her and so, she told the socialworker that, um i was the result of adate-rape

and that she wished that iwould have been aborted so it was very, um, hard tohear that i, i was almost disappointedthat the social worker sharedthat with me but i was very persistent and i really wanted to know the fact surrounding my birthand my birth-mother, so um, you know, i just came toterms with it knowing that i'm a gift, andthat, um and that my existence is ablessing, and that

my mother did choose to giveme life although i've never hadclosure meeting my mother, or mymaternal grandmother um, i have been able to cometo terms with learning about thecircumstances surrounding myconception through prayer, and my faith,and i do believe that it was nocoincidence that god led me to my friend ashley who i have just been reallyblessed to know

and to care for, and through helping her in her journey with jayden, i really dobelieve that it has been ahealing process for me to be able to have therelationship, and have that connection withsomeone, who as my mother did, went through just a terrible situation but, that resulted in life,and so i'm very thankful that i'vehad that opportunity

well i grey up, um, with asingle mom i always was asking my mom where my father was, and whohe was and every time i asked she would get so angry with me and tell me that it was noneof my business or scream and yell at me and i would run away and cry well in 2007, god drasticallygot a hold of me

and after struggling withdrugs, alcohol abortion divorce the whole nine yards this lady ended up prayingwith me and that day my life changed in 2009, i ended up movingback to the home-town that i had grown up in, that inever wanted to be a part ofanymore and it was about five monthslater

that i felt the lord leadingme to go to the social securityoffice and at that point, theyverified my father's information and within about 48 hours i met him and he looked at me and hesaid, i'm sorry i can't help you and i ended up calling my mom and telling her what hadhappened the last two days

and as she cried on the otherend of the line she said, that man raped me that man raped me and it was at that point thati realized the love of a mother but then also realizing that my life had been saved and i had taken three lives of my own

and the humility of knowingthat every life is precious that god had made my life- heknew every hair on my head and now knowing that he has aplan and a purpose to tell thetruth to tell the general public, totell women to encourage them you do not want to chooseabortion it is harmful, not onlymentally, physically emotionally, it affects youfor the rest of your life and you can't take it back you can't

and now i just continue to beso thankful for my life and the love that my mom hasfor me that she did keep me no matter how i was conceived uh, my birth mother was takenby her father three times foran illegal abortion the first two times, uh, she basically chickened out and the third time, um she was going to go throughwith it

and something inside her justscreamed no and she was prepped on thetable. she ended up kicking theabortionist and, escaped from thisback-alley abortion clinic because this was before roevs. wade. so this was allillegal i think her soul was justscreaming i'm not doing this,this is a baby and she knew it was a baby and she wasn't going to makethat decision you know, my birth mother wasobviously a young girl in crisis was completely incapable oftaking care of a child

uh, jim's mother, who wasraped uh, and carried him, and shewas older. she was 36 so she concealed the pregnancyas long as she could and hid it, um and was able to get tocatholic charities and have him so we're two kids who may havebeen conceived and born out ofcrisis but we're certainly not anyless loved and any less wanted we both had amazing adoptiveparents

who so desperately wantedchildren. who couldn't havechildren of their own our parents actually have verysimilar stories they could not have their ownkids and we were the biggestblessings, that, and thebiggest answer to their prayers is to have a family when nature wouldn't provideone and, so, for those of us, who,er, our society may call theunwanteds i think every adoptive parentout there would negate thatargument and argue against it, and say,

no, these children are lovedand wanted and are every bit asvalued you know, regardless ofconception regardless of your humblebeginnings you know, you are who you are based on the character of whoyou are not necessarily the moment ofyour creation as a rape-conceived person i take this very personally i take the exceptions includedin law very personally

because back in 1958, had someone been proposinglaws with rape exceptions that would have targeted medirectly so, we, as rape-conceivedindividuals are here to speak for thepeople who are targeted today and, to be consistent with atrue pro-life philosophy we're here to speak for thepeople who can't speak forthemselves for those pre-born, thoserape-conceived babies about to be born

who need protection as everyone else does, as theother 9b i'm so thankful, to my mother,certainly, thankful for hercourage but i'm thankful that i'm here to honor god with my life to the best of myability and, through wendy and, you know, the love thatwe share to continue life, with three,with a great family- threewonderful sons

and what a blessing they are and, it shows, that out oftragedy, or out of difficultcircumstances life blossoms my birth mother, at 17 yearsold was violently raped, and as aresult, became pregnant with me but my life was protected in1972 by a law that said that my life hadvalue and despite the law beingthere for me my birth-mother succumbed tothe pressure

of carrying a child conceivedout of rape and found herself at aback-alley abortion clinic at the advice of her mother at that clinic that day while standing in front of theman that was going to take mylife my birth-mother changed hermind she left, and never lookedback her mother hid her from theoutside world she gave birth to me, andnever even looked at me

but she gave me the greatestgift that i have ever received on top of giving me my life she gave me an amazing family and for that i'll forever begrateful my birth-mother passed awaymarch sixth of this year um, from a urinary-tractinfection that went septic at the age of 57 for seven days she was on a ventilator,fighting for her life

and for seven days, i wassitting beside her praying to god, that he wouldgive me more time she was with me when i took myfirst breath and i was holdingher hand when she took her last and does it really matter whathappened in-between? you know, she valued my life she valued my life enough togive me my life and i valued her life enoughto be there when she passed and, her story, she's the herohere she the one who did, who madeall the sacrifices

i'm just the one who receivedher gift and i'm so blessed that i'mable to tell it but if abortion would havebeen legal in 1972 i would not be sitting hertoday i have known god my whole life i've been a christian and once i realized the paththat he was leading me down was to share this story i felt a total calm, and atotal peace, in my life

he put me here to change lives not only as being afire-fighter and a medic but to save babies that, thatdeserve to be protected she will forever be in myheart and, one of the things withher going to an abortion facility because of the peer pressure of carrying a child conceivedout of rape that's what we do to thesegirls today- we tell thatthat's it's

that, their child is not goingto amount to anything that, a child conceived out ofrape is a person that's going tohave a black cloud over themtheir whole life i don't have a black cloudover me i love my life i've been married for 15 years to the love of my life my parents, you know, um i couldn't imagine lifewithout them

and because of her gift i'm blessed my mother was abused by herfather for many years and, um, of the sixpregnancies um, i was the second childconceived and the only survivor the four subsequentpregnancies were terminated through abortion

and, um covered up his actions that was the goal for that um, it's unclear, i'm unsurewhy um, i was not, terminated i am- i don't have an answerfor that um all i know is that i'm verythankful that i was not my family is thankful that iam not

um, that my life was spared and, god has a purpose for me and for each child conceived-no matter the circumstance um, i was placed for adoption, when iwas born and raised, loving christianhome um, they provided me witheverything- includingunconditional love and support i truly feel that

i am here today, and and allowing, he has allowedme to, um live out my life and it is through his divinepurpose that i am here in 1964, a young 15-year-oldgirl became pregnant had a lot of difficult choicesto make maybe more-so than some girls-she was raped but this young girl chose togive her child life and then to place that childwith an adoptive family

and that child was me my biological father is arapist i don't even know my ethnicity but i am still a human being and i still have value and my life isn't worth lessthan yours just because of the way that iwas conceived and i don't believe that ideserve the death penalty because of the crime of mybiological father

and i've not had a chance tomeet my birth-mom i hope to- if i don't meet herhere on earth i'm gonna meether in heaven i've been praying for hersince i was four and when we meet, i'm gonnawrap my arms around her and i'm gonna tell her i loveher because she loved me loved me enough to give me mylife and then loved me enough togive me the next most specialgift i was ever given- and that'smy family

i'm the oldest of eight kids seven of us adopted every colour of the rainbow inmy family we are the united nations allby ourselves and i know that my amazingfamily was a gift from a very scared 15-year-oldgirl and i will forever be gratefulto her for that one of the things that i'velearned for young women is that abortion, in theinitial stages of finding outyou're pregnant

when you're scared to death,and you don't know what you'regonna do seems like the easy way out and, and, and the industry ofabortion preys on them because it's just like, look,we can just make this go away but the reality is the abortion never makes it goaway and the, and the girls and thewomen that i've worked withover the years who took the easy way out and, and went to the abortionclinic

end up with years of regret,and years of pain and, and, and it doesn't fixthe rape killing their child did notundo the rape they're still a victim of rape they're still a victim ofassault and now they're dealing withthe victimization of their child and, and unpacking that in thecounselling office is extremelydifficult the girls who chose to carrytheir children to term whether they made a decisionfor placement

or whether they made adecision to parent that child go through a lot of months ofdifficulty and there's a lot ofcounselling. and they needlove, and they need support and they need people to bethere for them but the long-term recovery is unbelievable i've never met one girl, whovia- was raped became pregnant, carried thechild to term and, and within months oryears later

looked at me, and said, pam, iwish i would have killed mychild i wish i would have had anabortion not once but i can tell you countless-in fact literally days ago in tears, an almost53-year-old woman came up and told me that she had hadan abortion as a result of rape and at 53 years, years afterthat incident is still carrying the painfrom that abortion

still carries the pain and thescars not just the rape- theabortion is what hurt her and, and, and it just blows mymind that anyone can believe, thatsomehow abortion is going to fix therape it does not it kills the child, it harmsthe mother the only person, in theory,that you've helped

with the decision to abort achild conceived in rape is the rapist and i'm not sure that's whowe're expecting to havecompassion for it makes absolutely no sense you know, we've been fightingthis pro-life battle for, for many many years now and, and the media is not ourfriend. the media has neverbeen our friend will never be our friend.we've known it for all of theseyears and, and sometimes even whenpoliticians come out, and theysay something that's correct

like, god has a plan forchildren. even those childrenconceived in rape which is completely true god had a plan for my life my conception wasn't, youknow, what my biological fatherdid was wrong but, but god still had a planfor my life and that's true, well, themedia's obviously going to takethat and say, well you said godplanned rape, which we, whichhe didn't say and those things all happen the problem is, if we enter in

to compromise, and we start tosay, well i really think abortion iskilling a child but this, but that, but that what you've done, is thatyou've compromised the mostimportant truth the only thing we have tostand on if it is a human life then it is wrong to kill it regardless of thecircumstances and when you start playing thecircumstance game

you're playing into theirargument because now they're saying,well what if she- what if the womanwas abused? what if she fears for herlife? what if her boyfriend mightkill her? what if she can't support thechild? what if the child's going tobe abused? all of those arguments we'veheard since the very beginning the reality is this

this is a human-being created by god regardless of thecircumstances in which thathappened and every single childdeserves the right to life and there are no exceptions the minute you make theexception you've negated the entireargument um, compromise hasn't worked at the end of the day, thecompromise hasn't worked

and, and, and as a community,we have to speak up and say the reason that i believeabortion is wrong is that because this is aliving human-being whose life you are taking who, uh, who is an innocentchild in the process and the minute you stray awayfrom that then you leave yourself openfor every single exception that, that people can come upwith

and they can come up with alot of them and i've heard all kinds ofthings like that that we're demon-spawn rapist's baby, monster'schild, horrible reminder of therape and that's not true that's not what rape victimsactually express instead, what they express isthat that child is a blessing that that child helped them toovercome the rape

that they felt like they wereno longer in it alone they had vowed never to tell asoul about their rape because of that child, theynow had to tell people, and hadto get the counselling and had the healing that theynever would have otherwisereceived if it had not been for thatchild and some have expressed thatthey felt like they had alittle angel to keep themcompany during their time of healing and my birth-mother says thati'm a blessing to her i honor her, and i bring herhealing

and that's the other fallacythat people have they think that that baby has got to the be absolutelythe worst thing that has everhappened to a rape victim an abortion is but people just assume that she would be better off with an abortion and that could not be furtherfrom the truth i'm a family physician andpaediatrician

and i've been practisingmedicine for about 12 years i tell my patients, do not getan amniocentesis an amniocentesis is what theobstetrician orders um, about mid-trimesterthey'll do they'll put a needle in theuterus withdraw some fluid and sendit for testing and look for geneticabnormalities because the whole reason theydo an amniocentesis the whole reason-

is so that they can offer theoption for an abortion if there's evidence of somekind of abnormality many times, it's a falsepositive it turns out the baby'snormal, and they're, they're giving themom an option to get an abortion putting fear in her heartthat's not there there's no reason to do anamniocentesis and when you meet one blindbaby who's been blinded because theneedle went into the baby's eye

it'll make you think whetherthis is even good health careat all but unfortunately there's beena wrongful-life suit we hear of wrongful-deathsuits but there's been awrongful-life suit, where a baby was born, and thepro-life doctor did notrecommend an amniocentesis and the baby was born mentallyhandicapped and the parents sued thephysician because they weren't offeredan opportunity to abort and they won that lawsuit

and so fear of litigation isdriving the need to recommend anamniocentesis so that you can offer anabortion if there's, if there's anyevidence of an abnormality and, uh, you know, it's become um, one of the most corruptaspects of obstetrics right now i was told many times that, my children, when theywere in the womb were not going to be perfect

three times i was told thatthey would have down's syndrome each time i was afraid but, each time it turned outthat that child was perfectlynormal and, so, even though i'dfeared that i still received a hugeblessing with each child then, when i had colleen i was not warned the doctor did not know thatshe was down's syndrome even with the ultrasounds thatwe took, and the blood tests

but, when she was born, wefound that she was down'ssyndrome sure enough, colleen has beena huge blessing to us right after colleen was born and before much had happened the midwife asked me, well,what do you think? i said, she's still our child she's still one of us nothing will be differentabout that she laughed, she said, yeah, iknow you

the kids usually, down'ssyndrome kids might be ten i.q.points less than others but that means hers will beabout 130 we laughed but we've seen that she is a major part of our family inthat she fits in and uses theintelligence that god gave her it's not like she's, you know,dumb or inferior in some way well, this is colleen, and she's our favourite littleseven-year-old in the wholewide world

she's lots of fun and she loves to sing, sheloves to sign she loves to watch signingtime it's amazing, how talented shecan be the doctor, we sat down and hesaid your kid is gonna die. isthere anything you wanna ask? and of course we hadquestions, so we tried to asksome questions um, he told me that, even if iwanted to i was to far along toterminate, though that would behis recommendation

from the beginning, we prettymuch got expect him to die. expect himto die. um, he did live eight months it's been hard losing him, but he taught me a lot it was pretty amazing. he, uh i mean on facebook, he's gotthousands of fans, who, everyday tell us how he changed theirlives, so, i mean um, i dunno, it's. it's justthe whole ideal of him

his picture, i mean, incites hope. so, especially for me,and i know other people too uh, i mean, it's a hope that,that keeps us going it's worth it you will learn, anunconditional love having children- you alreadylove them but having a special-needschildren you have, you develop this incredible bond

because you're constantlythere. you're constantly takingcare of them i believe that, um, each life is ordained by god,and originates with god and, that, who are we to takethat life? um, that, that's not- itwasn't up to us we were given an opportunityto end his life really early on in thehospital um, an intensivist asked us,did we want to go into aspecial room? and say goodbye to joseph?

and, um, i got to share withher she's an atheist, and i got toshare with her, that joseph's life began with god,and and he was created by god, andordained by god [joseph: uh-huh] and given tous, and that we didn't plan onending his life there in the hospital, andthat if god chose to take joseph that it was his business, andthat he would do it in his ownway if, if i had to do it all overagain if i knew ahead of time, ofjoseph's condition

and, that, um the doctors, you know, hadpronounced, um the, uh, diagnosis and we knew, you know, what weknow now i would, i would do it allover again no doubt about it it's been one of the richestexperiences of my life like i said, that, i mean,god's taught us a tremendous amount, that wenever could have learned

apart from joseph my life started when mybirth-mother came out of a bar and she was raped she had two daughterspreviously and a third one didn't fitinto her picture for nine months she drankantifreeze and drain-cleaner to try to kill me and, without killing us both,and i still survived and when i was born, i wasborn with cancer in my right eye

and two years later, i had tohave it removed and when i was three-days-old,she dropped me off at herbrother's house and she said, here it is and that was the end of it.and that's where my life started because they adopted me, herbrother and sister-in-law and, uh, i proceeded to haveover 150 surgeries on my face, with the radiation and everything to stop thecancer and plastic surgery

it's been an up-and-downbattle nothing that i couldn't handlewith the grace of god because he brought me throughit all every surgery, i would tellhim my life is in your hands, lord take me where you want me tobe put me where you want me tobe and i always had a guardianangel, sitting right next to me all the time guarding me,taking me through every surgery and i'd come out when the oddswere, simply, to nothing.

and i still would survive and i had a brain tumour withtwo days to live and god took me through that so obviously he wants me here because i do love him and he loves me and my birth-mother? i have forgiven mybirth-mother that was her decision

that was, that's the decisionshe made whether it was wrong or right is not for my calling i just do believe in god, andhe kept me here for a purpose and it is to talk about god and talk about the faith andthe miracles that he performshere on earth not just with me, but with allthe other miracles that he does and i am a walking miracle andthat's what they call me i have a son

who is married and he has a set of twins and i'm so blessed to have ahusband to begin with, thatwould take somebody who wasdisabled and then, when we we'remarried. and then i had my son and he has twin boys and he has a daughter and abortion didn't justaffect me it affected- if i wasn't here,i wouldn't have a husband or a son, or all thesegrandchildren that i have

abortion affects everything our second adopted child,cassie was born with special needs and when i did research regarding her particulargenetic disorder it was called velocardiofacialsyndrome, otherwise known asdigeorge syndrome all i kept finding online was how to detect it, in utero so that you could have theopportunity to abort

and most of those babies wereaborted just like with down's syndromebabies ninety-percent are abortedtoday that's been the cure is to just simply kill them and, i think it's just soawful, and tragic that anyone would have lookedat my daughter cassie and said that she wasn't asgood that it wasn't worth goingthrough that

i held her, her birth-motherheld her and then she died in myhusband's arms and it was absolutely the mostdifficult thing we've ever beenthrough in our lives but it was an honor to takecare of her and we have peace-of-mind that we valued her life and that we were not the causeof her death it would've been far moredifficult to overcome it all

if we had caused her death and, that's what i see fromfriends who have miscarried late i have friends who went to thefuneral of a baby where the baby's umbilicalcord was triple-wrapped around the baby's neck and, just like when i wentthrough a couple of miscarriages i lost a couple of babes inutero they all say the same thing

they would have given anything to have had even a moment to hold that baby alive and it's the biggest rip-off to suggest that that's notworth it that that's not worth goingthrough that planned about 1985, 1986 i discovered i was pregnant and was excited about it to adegree

i had a baby in august of 1984 so that baby was still little.and i really wasn't planning onhaving another one that soon but you can't plan all thesethings, so we were excited we were walking along. it wasa spring- april morning and i said, if this baby'sborn this month, i'm just goingto name her april april joy it was a real shock to findout, that i, in fact, had ananencephalic baby when you deliver- and idelivered a stillborn at sevenmonths

there's no guilt you're body's able to gothrough all the mechanisms that it has to, uh hormonally, and physically and everything- to recover when you go ahead and abort there's- that whole process isdisrupted and so, you, you end up with alot more prevalence of breastcancer specifically, for having hadan abortion

the vast majority of medicalstudies on this subject of the abortion /breast-cancer link i think 29 studies now 27 of them with greater than a 95%confidence interval level which is the gold-standard forour confidence that this is agood, valid study and to be applied to practice have shown that there's a linkbetween abortion andbreast-cancer not so the natural miscarriage

because even though thosebreast cells are in areplicating state you know when there's anatural miscarriage, there's agradual decrease in, in thehormones and the breast cells are putback to a natural, uh suspended state but when there's an abruptcessation of those hormones by way of a violent abortion many of those breast cells,it's been theorized will remain in a hyperactivestate and, uh, that may beresponsible for the explosionin breast cancer we've seen

uh, just epidemiologically itmakes perfect sense the pathophysiology is there.it makes sense how that couldhappen and that's what the evidenceshows when you, do, look atlarge-scale studies done by theworld health organization and other large groups is that there is a solid linkbetween abortion and breastcancer and so it is not in the baby'sbest interest to get an abortion if the mom's sick, and neitheris it in the mother's bestinterests congressman ron paul is anobgyn

who has delivered thousands ofbabies and he's said he's never seena case in which abortion wasnecessary to save the life ofthe mother now i've seen many physiciansrecommend abortion to save thelife of the mother but in essence, they're tryingto protect themselves when that woman goes to theoncologist and the oncologist says, wecan cure your chemotherapy, butyou've got to get the abortionfirst 'cause i will not give youchemotherapy if you're pregnant and so this woman has to getan abortion

in order to get treated forher chemotherapy why can't they simply justtreat the woman? because, if the baby's borndeformed if the baby's born prematurely if this wanted child is bornstillborn that can affect him by way oflitigation so when a physician recommendsan abortion to save the life ofthe mother it's very often to protectthemselves not to save the life of themother, but to protectthemselves from lawsuits

there was a study donerecently in europe looking at mothers who refusedto get an abortion who had cancer and were taking chemotherapy and the study concluded that maternal chemotherapy wasrelatively safe for unbornchildren so for 40 years they've beenkilling all these babies thousands of babies becausethe baby's gonna die anyway and it turns out that maternalchemotherapy is relatively safefor unborn children

i had a pro-life woman in myoffice was completely against allabortion, but she had a tubalectopic pregnancy she was told by the ob that the baby cannot survive zero-percent survival rate and so he urged her to get amethotrexate abortion now you don't have to do amethotrexate abortion as a matter of fact, thestandard of care is watchfulwaiting because the vast majority ofthese babies will die

and the pregnancies willsubside on their own and the mother doesn't needsurgery she doesn't need an abortion but he won't, he was,protecting himself and he ordered a methotrexateabortion and three weeks later thiswoman was bleeding profusely so he did an ultrasound, andto his horror he discovered there was a pregnancy in theuterus so either she had twinpregnancies

one in the fallopian tube andthe uterus, or as has been well-documented the tubal ectopic pregnancy dislodged, and re-attached inthe uterus and it turns out methotrexateabortions are not goodhealthcare after all 'cause it killed the baby.both babies, possibly or at least the one that wouldhave been a healthy pregnancyin the uterus and so this woman washorrified to discover that shewas unable to conceive later on this pro-life woman

the vast majority of tubalectopic pregnancies willresolve on their own the babies will die, and thepregnancy will resolve and the mom doesn't needurgent therapy she doesn't need methotrexate she doesn't need to have thatremoved so i think it's unethical forthe physician to recommendmethotrexate they can't be 100% sure that there's not a twin in theuterus and they can't be 100% surethat that baby wouldn't die ofnatural causes

just because someone's gonnadie of natural causes, thatdoesn't justify killing them it's always wrong tointentionally kill an innocentperson back in september of last year um, i called my mom up and i asked her, and i said,okay mom, what actually happened tome and that's when she reallystarted telling me that i was an ectopic pregnancybaby they had recommended for meabortion

they wanted to abort me but her words were if my baby has to die then i will too and when you think about that to me, it brings to mind thescripture where jesus said no greater love has a man thanthis than a man that would lay downa life for his friend

but in this case, it was amother willing to sacrifice herlife for a child quite frankly my mom, and i'm sure there'smany other women made a choice that is notpopular and, and for that i will beforever grateful to her why is it that, because i wasnot conceived under circumstances that you finddesirable why is it that my life isexpendable to you?

and if you can answer thatquestion for me which you can't i'll tell you that now because, there's no life and especially the unborn that's expendable abortion has nothing to dowith healthcare you can have

the life of a mother saved by inducing labour prematurely delivering a baby you can provide healthcare tothe mother and the child i know a pro-lifeperinatologist who all he does,day in and day out, is deliverpremature babies and sometimes they live. andsometimes they die. but he treats both you try to save both that's not what abortion is

abortion is not healthcare it's just the mentality ofdeath my daughter's birth-mother wasraped at 13 she is basically all of thehard cases that you've ever heard putforward by those who areabortion supporters she was very young,13-years-old she was a victim of rape they told her something waswrong with her baby her baby was bi-racial. andnobody would want a bi-racialrapist's baby

she was actually taken in forthe abortion and they had started theprocedure, they found that shewas 20-weeks pregnant so this would be asecond-trimester abortion and she was on the table inthe stirrups. and they hadstarted the procedure on her after they had first told herthat, at 20-weeks, a baby's noteven formed yet so, she a- they had to stopthe abortion procedure because she was in so muchpain because they were doing theabortion under local anaesthesia instead of general anaesthesia

and they were manuallydilating her so they stopped the procedureand rescheduled it so that they could allow thefamily to get more funding to cover general anaesthesia so jaylyn is an abortionsurvivor they had actuallystarted the procedure on hermother and, she, um, as a result ofthat, has, uh, some challenges she has some special needsthat she's dealing with and she will have thesechallenges for the rest of herlife she was, uh, her birth-mom wastold: she did need to goforward with the abortion

because if she didn't consentto the abortion, she would die they told her she was far tooyoung to carry a pregnancy toterm and deliver a baby she stood up for her child and gave birth to her child and, you know, made the choiceto give her away for adoption,versus the alternative, of not givingthe child, our daughter jaylyn,life so, we were really, think hera hero in this situation

it was a remarkable thing forsomeone as young as her to stand up to her adult authority figure and stand up for her child'slife and give her life when othersdidn't think that that lifewould be valuable her biological grandmother,who was the one who had pressedfor the abortion is now pro-life and is completely againstabortion and we keep in contact withthat family

and they love being able towatch jaylyn grow up and experience her lifethrough, you know, pictures and videos and things likethat and her birth-mother was ableto go on and finish high-school and has gone on to highereducation and that's been a blessing,that she doesn't have to carryaround the pain and regret of anabortion decision and that she can enjoywatching her daughter grow up our other children, they arelearning

lessons that we could havetold them we could have talked to themabout we could have read themstories they are learning that life,all life, is really valuable that it doesn't make anydifference if the child is rape-conceived, orspecial-needs or of a different race or whatever their abilities,anything none of that makes anydifference

they are worthy of respect and dignity. their life isvaluable because they are made in theimage of god and i could have told themthat all day they are living that now. theyhave learned empathy in a way that they neverwould've had they not had thisopportunity and they're learning to, um just have a tenderness

towards their sister and her friends that are alsospecial-needs jaylyn is a worshipper the girl loves to go to church she loves to sing as loud aspossible you can hear her over theentire crowd belting it out. and she'll goup front she'll throw her hands up inthe air and sing she'll- she likes to get downand pray

she'll get down on her kneesand pray and she'll be in tears. i'venever seen a child do thatbefore and it's so unique. it'samazing to be able to witnesssomething like that if you would like moreinformation on any of these issues there are several resourcesfor you and so i hope that you willavail yourselves of those wonderful resources if you're a woman who's had anabortion

for whatever reason yourchoice was whether you were raped youwere being forced because you felt like you hadno other option there is healing andforgiveness in christ every bit of guilt, shamefear, worthlessness you feel can completely be healed in his name my greatest suggestion is find a local cpc

a local pregnancy center or maybe talk to your pastor about doing a post- abortivebible study because digging in to your past- having to faceit for what it is and not hiding is where the lord is reallygoing to help you uncover everything that you feel where he's really gonna digdeep into you

and show you that you can behealed that he forgives you he doesn't look upon you withany disgust he's not casting any stones he died for you he died for this sin and he longs to have thatrelationship with you where he can heal you