After the trauma of rape, Save The 1 moms experience unexpected joy. There are a number of reasons, but one of the biggest is made possible by generous donors, like you. We thank you. Donors make it possible for new rape survivors to find us and to engage in a community of others who truly […]
Response to Elise Cooper About her article, The Rape Exception ~by Darlene Pawlik
American Thinker published an article by Elise Cooper. Her title, The Rape Exception, got attention. The message was that Republicans should leave the exceptions in laws. It is this thinking that has brought us abortion on demand. I will take this apart paragraph by paragraph. Elise’s first assertion, in paragraph 1, is that rape conception […]
Intellectual Dishonesty ~ by Darlene Pawlik
The Editors at National Review, not their real names, have decided that the pro-life candidates for president should back off from a 100% pro-life, no exceptions stand on abortion. I do wonder if we were talking about their demographic, if they would have the same opinion. For example, if there were open season on reporters […]
President Signs Rape Survivor Child Custody Act Into Law! by Rebecca Kiessling
After passing the U.S. Senate 99 to 0, our model legislation from Hope After Rape Conception — the Rape Survivor Child Custody Act (H.R. 1257) — was signed into law by President Obama on Friday! Our co-founders from HARC, Shauna Prewitt and Analyn Megison worked very hard on this, working closely with House sponsor Congresswoman […]
Use Your Power to Stop Abortion ~by Darlene Pawlik
Restored Colonial One-Room Schoolhouse One of the ways anyone can educate the public and those in positions of power is to write a letter exposing the facts, mingling them with real people’s stories and putting out very specific actions that you want the educated to take. This can take many forms. A letter to the editor […]
There’s a Person in There by Darlene Pawlik
In my experience as a nurse, there have been so many times that others in the medical field ignore the dignity of the person to whom care is delivered. For a supervisor, walking in on a bed bath or other personal procedure is no deterrent to getting their job done. “It’s just a body, I’ve […]
How I Faked an Abortion and Escaped Sex Trafficking by Darlene Pawlik
I was trapped in the sex trafficking industry from age 14-17. Trafficking in persons is not like any regulated industry. It is unmitigated anarchy. There are no rules. I was conceived during a brutal rape and learned of it when I was very young. That knowledge and child sexual abuse by my own father […]
Hard Cases Unite to Make a Difference! by Rebecca Kiessling
How would like to be labeled “a hard case?” What if your class of people were systematically targeted for extinction within legislation? What if political candidates felt quite comfortable with stating their position that you and your kind aren’t worth protecting and better off dead? What if your child was regularly stigmatized by our society? […]