{"id":192828,"date":"2018-12-18T10:58:39","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T16:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=192828"},"modified":"2022-07-17T20:59:57","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T01:59:57","slug":"rape-survivor-good-come-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/rape-survivor-good-come-evil\/","title":{"rendered":"Rape survivor says son, conceived in rape, is proof that ‘good can come from evil’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Editor’s Note:\u00a0Live Action works to maintain the highest standards of journalistic integrity. Live Action has looked into key elements of Ms. Christie\u2019s testimony and personal story and has found them to be credible.<\/em><\/p>\n

Jennifer Christie<\/a> was raped while on a business trip and fought for her life to survive. Shortly thereafter, she learned she was pregnant as a result. In a recent speech at Malta’s March for Life 2018, she said people are under very wrong impressions about women who become pregnant as a result of rape, and about their children conceived in rape.\u00a0“People will tell you that a raped woman who conceives will feel rage and anger and disgust toward her baby. And I’ve spoken to hundreds and hundreds of women, and that is just not true.”<\/p>\n

In the video below, posted in early December 2018 by the Life Network Foundation Malta<\/a>, Christie speaks with her husband, Jeff, at her side. She tells of how she had to break the news of her pregnancy to him six weeks after the rape. She saw an ultrasound, and it changed everything.\u00a0“I saw a little dot, and it flickered… and I knew what that was. And for the first time since I had been raped, I felt that light inside me again. And I smiled, because that little flicker on the screen, to me, was hope and joy and light.”<\/p>\n