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Sunday, November 19, 2017
Pro-Life Peru is Morally Superior, by Rebecca Kiessling
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 mothers who became pregnant by rape who are either
raising their children, birthmothers, or post-abortive and regret aborting. Additionally, we have hundreds of parents in
our network who were told to abort due to a challenging pre-natal diagnosis, or
those whose parents were told to abort them.
We value our lives and the lives of our children. We urge the people of Peru to continue
protecting human life without exception.
I’m sure you’ve heard abortion advocates say that it’s
barbaric to force a rape victim to carry “a rapist’s child.” First of all, I am not the child of a rapist –
I am the child of a rape victim. My
mother and I object to me being characterized otherwise. The rapist has no claim to me! Tell those who say such things, do not insult
me or my mother in this way.
Secondly, it is simply barbaric to punish an innocent child
for someone else's crime. Justice
dictates that in a civilized society, we punish rapists, not babies. Those who
would kill innocent children are the ones who are barbaric!
I did not deserve the death penalty for the crime of my
biological father. My own birthmother
had tried to kill me at two illegal abortions, and was pro-choice when we met
29 years ago, but today, we are thankful we were both protected by law from the
horror of abortion, just as the women and children of Peru are protected today.
She said back then, the only option she
was given was to abort me. She said that
there were no pro-life pregnancy resource centers at the time, and no one gave
her any other help or hope.
Peru has legislators who have placed gun sights on children
like me. To them I say, take them
off! Remove me from your scope. I am not your game to be hunted and
killed. I am a person and deserve life
every bit as much as you. This targeting
of life is dehumanizing and demoralizing, not just for those yet unborn, but
for every person living who was conceived in violence. The sting of your hatred is palpable and
life-long.
Legalizing abortion for rape or other exceptions sends a
message to our people group that our lives
are worth less than anyone
else’s. Imagine hearing of some nation
introducing an abortion ban with an exception in cases of babies conceived in
Jewish homes, Catholic families, or from Latino moms. 
The message which would be 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 the legalization of such prejudice were even proposed
because everyone would understand the discriminatory implications and
intentions. Yet, it is the same for us,
and we ache from such malice and the reckless disregard for our lives. Rape survivor mothers grieve how their
children are systematically targeted and devalued. They suffer more because they are not
believed they were raped since they did not abort and because they actually
love their children.
We appreciate concern for rape victims, but they are four
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 rate of being murdered, committing 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 is the hero of the story, by
exposing the rape, delivering 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! The baby is not the scary
enemy. It’s just absurd to suggest that
any woman should have to be afraid of a baby.
In regards to a pre-natal diagnosis of “incompatible with
life” – it is impossible for the baby to be such when that unborn child is
still living. As long as there is a
heartbeat, there is life and there is hope. 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 for any reason.
I see the language of the global abortion lobby and how they
try to demean pro-life nations like Peru by characterizing them as antiquated
and “third-world,” as if killing the most vulnerable is somehow “progressive.” The truth is, Peru is a morally superior
nation because they’ve established the most important characteristics of a
culture – one where people are loved, protected, and accepted. Child sacrifice is what’s antiquated. Peruvians, please do not commence a culture
of death and discrimination.
We started a Spanish language division of Save The 1 -- Salvar El 1 -- a few
years ago because we saw how Latin America is being targeted by the abortion
forces. They are using the rape issue to
try to legalize abortion – on demand for any reason through all nine months of
pregnancy at taxpayer expense, just like they did in the United States. We know how critical our stories are for
impacting the culture because it is stories which pierce the heart in ways in
which arguments cannot.
In the United States landmark Supreme Court decision of Roe
vs Wade which legalized abortion across the U.S., the pregnant woman Norma McCorvey
– called Jane Roe, was told by her attorneys to lie that she was
gang-raped. They said this would make
her case stronger. Many years later, she
sought to have her own case overturned, feeling the weight of over one million
abortions per year on her shoulders.
Nearly 60 million children have been killed in the womb based upon a lie
of rape. The abortion advocates know
this and that’s why they exploit the violation of women to open the door for
killing any and all unborn children.
As I speak globally, I tell people about the good people of
Peru and how they fight like their own lives depend on it – how a year and a
half ago, Peruvians successfully defeated the efforts to legalize abortion in
cases of rape, and how one month later, they had 700,000 pro-life people attend
their March for Life in Lima! It took
the U.S. 40 years of legalized abortion to finally have 700,000 attend our
March for Life.
Everyone I tell is amazed that Peru not only had that many
people, but that they cared enough to show up to take a stand for the child
conceived in rape. Do you know how many
people attended the March for Life in the U.S. when they began legalizing
abortion in cases of rape across the southern states in the late 1960’s? None!
There was no March for Life because scarcely anyone cared! It wasn’t until abortion became legal for any
reason that a March was organized. Not
so in Peru. The people of Peru are very
wise to be so vigilant now.
When I was asked to speak in Peru at the first ever
international pro-life conference, I jumped at the opportunity to meet people
who are truly my heroes and to be a source of information and encouragement. Peru demonstrates to the world how to value
all life. They are the pro-life role
models throughout the globe!
Recently, the advocates for abortion have again introduced a
bill in Peru’s legislature to legalize abortion in cases of rape. The forces of death and destruction are not going
away. I urge the good people of Peru, do
not relent! Please, don’t let your
nation turn into a killing field like the U.S., like Canada, like so much of
Europe and Asia. Don’t spill the blood
of innocent Peruvian children on your land.
Continue protection without exception, from the moment of conception.
BIO: Rebecca Kiessling is the founder and President of Save The 1. She's a wife, mother, attorney,
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