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Friday, December 16, 2016
We Value Life and Urge the Republic of Ireland to Preserve the 8th Amendment, by Rebecca Kiessling
I’m the President of Save The 1 - a global pro-life organization
of over 450 who were conceived in rape
(like me) and mothers who became pregnant by rape who are either raising their
children, birthmothers, or post-abortive.
Additionally, we have hundreds who were told to abort due to a pre-natal
diagnosis. We value life and urge the
Republic of Ireland to preserve the 8th Amendment.
It is simply barbaric to punish an innocent child for
someone else's crime. Punish rapists, not babies. I did not deserve the death
penalty for the crime of my biological father. My own birthmother tried to kill
me at 2 illegal abortions, and was pro-choice when we met 28 years ago, but
today, we are thankful we were both protected from the horror of abortion, just
as the women and children of Ireland are protected today.
Legalizing abortion for rape or other exceptions would send
a message to our people group that our lives are worth less than anyone
else’s. Imagine having an exception in
cases of Asian babies, Jewish babies, or left-handed babies. The message sent is that these people are not
worthy of living and did not deserve to be protected like everyone else. There would be an international outcry if
such discrimination were even proposed.
Yet, it is the same for us, and we feel the sting of such hatred against
or apathy toward our lives. The rape
survivor mothers grieve how their children are systematically targeted and
devalued, and they are not believed they were raped because they didn’t abort
and because they actually love their children.
We appreciate concern for rape victims, but they are 4 times
more likely to die within the next year after an abortion, as opposed to giving
birth. In Dr. David Reardon’s book,
Victims and Victors: Speaking Out About Their Pregnancies, Abortions and
Children Resulting From Sexual Assault, he cites the research done on the
subject. After an abortion, rape victims
have a higher murder rate, suicide, drug overdose, etc.. Rapists, child molesters and sex traffickers
love abortion, which destroys the evidence and enables them to continue
perpetrating. Oftentimes, a girl’s own
mother has been either trafficking her or leaving her unprotected. It is always the baby who exposes the rape,
who delivers her out of the abusive situation, protecting her and bringing her
healing. So if you care about rape victims,
you must protect her from the rapist and from the abortion, and not the baby!
In regards to a diagnosis of “incompatible with life” – it
is impossible to be such when you are still living. Physicians who peddle abortion are truly the
ones with fatal heart defects, often failing to treat the children of parents
who refused to abort. A eugenics mentality
becomes pervasive when you allow abortion.
BIO: Rebecca Kiessling is an international pro-life speaker, blogger and attorney. She's also the Founder and President of Save The1, co-founder of Hope After Rape Conception, and co-founder of Embryo Defense.mendment, without exception.
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