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 […]
My name is Rebecca Kiessling, I am a wife, a mother of five children — two of them adopted, and I am the president of SaveThe1 (Salvar El 1 in Spanish) an international pro-life organization which specializes in defending all of the so-called “hard cases” through sharing our personal stories. A good number of members […]
On May 4, 2018, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed the Heartbeat Bill into law which would protect unborn children who have a detectable heartbeat, except “when the abortion is medically necessary” and defines “medically necessary” as cases of rape, incest and fetal abnormality, making the abortion provider the sole arbiter of these determinations. These exceptions […]
Iowa Heartbeat Bill: The Exceptions Speak for Themselves, by Sarah St. Onge Last month Ben Shapiro shared a video clip showing a mother speaking passionately about the value of her son’s life. Her words were well received by most pro-life believers. But her passion was evidently not enough to persuade Iowa lawmakers, and the […]
Clergy need to get this one right! Save The 1 has published two recent stories in which the pregnant rape victims’ clergy not only advised them that’s it’s acceptable to abort, but actually encouraged them to do so. One rape victim went through with the abortion, and the other did not. In other words, a […]
Alabama urgently needs to pass The Rape Survivor Child Custody Act, to terminate the parental rights of rapists and to suspend any custody or visitation. Last week, a rape survivor mom from our network, J.C., published her story in our Save The 1 blog, “From Age 13, My Uncle Raped and Impregnated Me, But The […]
It is a great honor to have been invited to speak at Peru’s first international pro-life conference. I’m an attorney, wife, mother of 5, international pro-life speaker and writer, and the President of Save The 1 – a global pro-life organization with a network of over 525 who were conceived in rape (like me) and […]
This message moved me to tears! I received this heartfelt message from a Chilean mother just one week after the Chilean Supreme Court upheld the new abortion law legalizing abortion for rape, incest, fetal abnormality and life of the mother, and one week before I will arrive in Chile to speak, where I will have […]
Rebecca, it is unusual to meet a person who has been conceived in rape. Could you explain the influence that this discovery had on your understanding of yourself and your life? When I first learned how I was conceived, I instantly felt targeted and devalued by so much of society because I had heard what […]
If you search the name of “Evelyn Beatriz Hernandez Cruz,” you will find a multitude of global news stories written in English about this young woman from El Salvador who was recently sentenced to 30 years in prison for aggravated homicide for the death of her child – all of them saying she was a […]