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 […]
Woman From El Salvador Given 30 Years For Killing Her Son Was Never Raped, by Rebecca Kiessling
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 […]
Abortion Advocates Exploit El Salvadorian Rape Victim and Her Son’s Death, by Rebecca Kiessling
The death of a baby conceived in rape and the sentencing of his teen mother for “aggravated homicide” is being exploited by abortion rights activists to push for the legalization of abortion. Evelyn Beatriz Hernandez Cruz, 19, from Cuscatlán, El Salvador, has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for the death of her son. […]
Dear Instructor, I am wondering how you can justify murder in cases of rape and incest, by Christina Scarborough, homeschool student
Lisa Scarborough decided to home school her 8th grade daughter after experiencing the public school classroom to be hostile toward their pro-life, conservative views. However, when 13 year old Christina was taking an online Civics course through a Christian home school program, she was shocked to hear her teacher justifying abortion in cases of rape […]
Thankful I Didn’t Kill My Innocent Baby Conceived in Rape, by Aimee Kidd
Last Monday, I received a call from the District Attorney’s office stating they did not have enough evidence to file criminal charges of any kind against my rapist. I literally collapsed on the floor upon hearing the news. The wind was knocked right out of me. That wasn’t enough, however. The story of my rape, […]
After the Rape, Choosing Life Fixed Everything, by Paula Love
New Year’s Eve 1991, I was invited to go bowling with a small group of people who I hadn’t known for very long and didn’t know very well at all. We bowled and we drank, but I don’t remember much more. I don’t remember leaving the bowling alley, but I remember seeing headlights on our […]
It Looked Like Such a Bleak Situation, But I Had a Reason For Being by Kerry Ann Beckley from the U.K.
I was conceived in 1974, in a little town called Newbury, in England. Abortion became legal in the UK in 1967, but it wasn’t as acceptable or as accessible as it is now. When my mum fell pregnant with me, she already had four other children to look after, and she was married to my […]
The Abortion Was More Damaging Than the Rape, by Nona Ellington
My father was an evangelist, traveling and ministering where ever he was called. My mother was a devout Southern Baptist and my father was a full-gospel, spirit-filled Christian. I was torn between two churches. They were both very godly people but had different outlooks on the Bible because of their denominations.I received Jesus as my […]
Pregnant by Rape at 15, That Baby Was Mine, by Diana Valeria Contreras from Chile
In the summer of 2008 in the South of Chile, I was raped at the age of 15. Time passed, and I found out I was pregnant. I was scared, and I didn’t want to be a mother, so I kept my pregnancy a secret. I cried a lot and I was broken-hearted because […]
Though Conceived in Adultery, I Am Not an Accident, by Lori Sealy
I’m adopted and several years ago I was privileged to learn some of my back story from my birthmom. I came crashing onto the scene under less than stellar circumstances. My biological mom was a musician who ended up in an adulterous affair with a married man – a married man who had 6 children. […]