{"id":225122,"date":"2020-06-05T16:44:02","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T21:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=225122"},"modified":"2020-06-11T17:09:50","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T22:09:50","slug":"conceived-rape-blessing-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/conceived-rape-blessing-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"My son, conceived in rape, is my life&#8217;s greatest blessing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><em>Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in this guest post are solely those of the author and are not necessarily reflective of Live Action or Live Action News.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A whole-hearted, honorable gift of God \u2013 that\u2019s what the name of my son, who was conceived in gang <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/mother-rape-son-gods-gift-heal-heart\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rape<\/a>, means.<\/p>\n<p>I endured trauma the night he was conceived. There\u2019s no denying the existence of trauma after two men <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/rape-chose-life-son-joy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hold a gun<\/a> to your head and violate you in every way imaginable. Honestly, when they were finished with me, I wasn\u2019t sure why God spared my life at all.<\/p>\n<p>My soul just sort of shut down, and I lived in a perpetual state of mourning.<\/p>\n<p>All the while, a member of the clergy at the church I was attending at the time pushed me non-stop to take the <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/today-exposeplanb-tweetfest-raises-awareness-about-dangers-of-the-morning-after-pill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">morning after pill<\/a>. Back then, I wasn\u2019t sure how I felt about Plan B, but I knew enough to know it could prevent a unique human person from implanting into the uterus during his or her embryonic stage. So I decided not to take it, and I avoided the numerous text messages and phone calls from clergy. I ignored the voicemails with the same repeated question: \u201cThere\u2019s a small window of time here \u2013 have you taken it yet?!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mostly, I cuddled my chunky kitten and cried, while praying and asking God why he would allow the torture I endured that night to continue by allowing me to live through it. I felt nasty, all used up &#8212; like I would never be whole again, never be clean again, never experience joy or the feeling of having a purpose again. And I felt I had no reason to go on living.<\/p>\n<p>I made it through the medical visits, exams, and proactive STD treatments I received, just in case I\u2019d been exposed to anything. I endured the awful side effects of post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP), intended to prevent the transmission of HIV. I went through the motions in this new, abnormal existence I wanted no part of.<\/p>\n<p>And then I noticed the same tell-tale signs I experienced once before when I had experienced an unplanned pregnancy which eventually ended in a heartbreaking miscarriage. Honestly, I just knew, but I had to see it to believe it.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_190755\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-190755\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-190755\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Paula-Peyton-chose-life-after-rape-700x379.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Paula-Peyton-chose-life-after-rape-700x379.jpg 700w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Paula-Peyton-chose-life-after-rape-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Paula-Peyton-chose-life-after-rape-768x416.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Paula-Peyton-chose-life-after-rape-500x271.jpg 500w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Paula-Peyton-chose-life-after-rape.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-190755\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paula and her son Caleb.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>That\u2019s how I wound up in Walgreens, returning the Plan B that had been purchased for me and exchanging it for a box of pregnancy tests, the cashier looking at me as if I should know that this wasn\u2019t how it worked.<\/p>\n<p>A few minutes later, I was sitting in my bathroom holding a white stick, watching it closely, when \u201cPregnant&#8221; appeared on the small, digital screen.<\/p>\n<p>I smiled. I smiled SO BIG.<\/p>\n<p>In that moment, I knew, without a shadow of a doubt, that God had seen me. He saw every torturous moment of the gang rape that had broken me. He saw me as I wept. He saw me when I wanted nothing more than to be swept into the ocean of my grief.<\/p>\n<p>God gave the pain I endured a purpose.\u00a0 He gave me a reason to live. He gave me the greatest gift of love and joy I could ever imagine \u2013 the opportunity to be a mother to a perfect baby boy.<\/p>\n<p>As much as I wanted them to, the struggles I faced didn\u2019t disappear.<\/p>\n<p>After finding out I was pregnant and refusing to consider having an abortion, the clergy member who wanted me to take Plan B actually stopped speaking to me. As word spread around the church, some people followed that lead and stopped speaking to me, but most of them joined forces and started pressuring me constantly to have an abortion.<\/p>\n<p>They told me time and time again that my baby was \u201cevil,\u201d \u201ca spawn of Satan,\u201d \u201ca permanent reminder of the rape,\u201d \u201cnot even a person,\u201d \u201cdisgusting,\u201d \u201ca mistake,\u201d \u201cthe reason abortion exists,\u201d and on and on. Those were the kinder things they said. I can\u2019t count the number of times they told me I wouldn\u2019t be able to love him because I was a victim of rape.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_225127\" style=\"width: 477px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-225127\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-225127\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/caleb-467x700.jpg\" alt=\"rape\" width=\"467\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/caleb-467x700.jpg 467w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/caleb-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/caleb.jpg 640w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/caleb-500x750.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 467px) 100vw, 467px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-225127\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paula and Caleb. Photo used with permission.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Their voices were so loud and hurtful, and they were incessant. What they never realized is that I \u2013 the person who babysat all of their kids, went to lunch with them, listened to their struggles, comforted them, made meals for their families after their own births and deaths and surgeries, hung out in their homes, was a good friend to them, whom they deemed \u201can angel in disguise\u201d \u2013 I was conceived in rape when my biological mother was raped at knifepoint in 1991.<\/p>\n<p>The person they were trying so hard to convince about the inherently evil nature of what they called \u201cSatan\u2019s rape babies\u201d was herself conceived in rape, and I didn\u2019t demonstrate any of the horrible characteristics they told me my child would.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, I was receiving their non-stop calls and texts pushing me to schedule an abortion appointment, I began experiencing heavy bleeding. It took months to determine that I had gotten an infection as a result of the rape, and as the infection took over in my body, the bleeding became heavier and heavier.<\/p>\n<p>It was the most traumatic experience \u2013 sobbing and begging God to please spare my baby\u2019s life, to make him strong, to just help him hang on, and then receiving a text message that would inevitably say something like \u201cYou need to hurry up and get rid of the Devil baby.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Being gang-raped was nowhere near as bad as enduring that kind of traumatic hatred.<\/p>\n<p>When the infection was finally discovered, the nurse was intentionally vague when she called to tell me they were calling in antibiotics that I needed to start immediately. She didn\u2019t want to upset me, but as a millennial, I googled the name of the infection and read about the ways in which it complicated pregnancy. Listed on a reputable medical site was the typical window in which this infection would cause pre-term labor. I was in the last bit of that window.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_225129\" style=\"width: 535px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-225129\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-225129\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/caleb-2-525x700.jpg\" alt=\"rape\" width=\"525\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/caleb-2-525x700.jpg 525w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/caleb-2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/caleb-2.jpg 720w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/caleb-2-500x667.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-225129\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caleb. Photo used with permission.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It took weeks and multiple rounds of antibiotic treatments to rid my body of the infection. I cried in fear until the bleeding stopped, and when it finally did, at 20 weeks, I cried tears of thanksgiving. God was continuing to protect my baby, and just a week later, I found out he was a boy!<\/p>\n<p>The moment the sonographer said, \u201cOh, Paula! This one\u2019s a boy,\u201d I gushed and told her his name was Caleb.<\/p>\n<p>When people tried to speak to me about abortion, I would tell them that Caleb and I were doing great and that I couldn\u2019t wait to see his face, hold him, and be his mom. I was literally calling him by his name for weeks, and I still couldn\u2019t go to church without being told that it wasn\u2019t \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/late-term-abortionist-curtis-boyd-age-limit-kill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">too late<\/a> to fix this.\u201d I had offers from many people, including one wealthy woman, who all wanted to \u201chelp\u201d me by funding an out-of-state trip to New Mexico for a late-term abortion.<\/p>\n<p>It didn\u2019t matter that he was well beyond the age of viability. It didn\u2019t matter that I made it clear from the beginning that I did NOT want to have an abortion. It didn\u2019t matter that I loved him with every fiber of my being. He was conceived in rape, and to them, that meant he wasn\u2019t worthy enough to draw a single breath of air. By that standard, neither was I.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/preemie-22-weeks-discharged-hospital\/\"><em>\u2018Miracle\u2019 micro-preemie born at 22 weeks discharged from the hospital<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That was such a hard time. I cried a lot and held tight to the knowledge that God doesn\u2019t make throw-away people, and his light has always outshone the darkness.<\/p>\n<p>Light. I use that word a lot to describe my little boy.<\/p>\n<p>He was the happiest baby I\u2019d ever seen and has continued to be the most joyful child. At two and a half, he loves to give hugs and kisses. He picks me wildflowers from the yard and asks to draw pictures for people because he says he wants to make them happy. He loves babies and wants to be a superhero doctor when he grows up.<\/p>\n<p>Caleb loves to pray, and he prays every day for mommies to be loved and for the babies in their tummies to be safe.<\/p>\n<p>Knowing firsthand how hard it is to heal from the trauma of rape and how hard it is to stand up to coercion from those who pressure women to abort, I look at my child praying for those who are now in the same season of trial we lived through, and I weep. God\u2019s plans are always bigger, always better, always for our benefit.<\/p>\n<p>I am now the Executive Director of Hope After Rape Conception, a non-profit, pro-life ministry with the mission of assisting mothers from rape and our children because God called me to support others who are walking this path of motherhood after rape, often in the very ways <em>I<\/em> needed support.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.\u201d (Genesis 50:20)<\/p>\n<p>Our story isn\u2019t a sad one. It is true that it\u2019s marked by trauma, but it isn\u2019t sad. Our story is one that tells of the boundless, redeeming love of God, who saw me in the depths of my despair and gave me my life\u2019s greatest blessing \u2013 a child conceived in gang rape, a child who far too many people deemed disposable, a child who saved my life, a child who was always meant to be my whole-hearted, honorable gift of God.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveactionnewsonline\/?ref=br_rs\">\u201cLike\u201d Live Action News on Facebook<\/a>\u00a0for more pro-life news and comentary!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"at-below-post addthis_tool\" data-url=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/preemie-22-weeks-discharged-hospital\/\" data-title=\"'Miracle' micro-preemie born at 22 weeks discharged from the hospital\" data-description=\"A baby girl born at just 22 weeks gestation is now home from the hospital with her parents after spending five months in the hospital.\">\n<div id=\"atstbx2\" class=\"at-resp-share-element at-style-responsive addthis-smartlayers addthis-animated at4-show\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"at-132bcabe-8e98-4adf-8221-c8342ba1ecad\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in this guest post are solely those of the author and are not necessarily reflective of Live Action or Live Action News. 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