{"id":247974,"date":"2021-06-30T06:35:59","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T11:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=247974"},"modified":"2021-06-29T14:17:29","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T19:17:29","slug":"rape-survivor-chose-life-powerful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/rape-survivor-chose-life-powerful\/","title":{"rendered":"Rape survivor: ‘Every woman is strong enough’ to choose life instead of abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In a documentary called \u201cExcept in Cases of Rape,\u201d Liz Carl told her story. Carl was drugged and raped when she was 17, and a senior in high school. She found out that she was pregnant a few weeks later. She was being raised Catholic, and says she knew \u201cwhat an abortion was,\u201d as well as a lot of information about the pro-life movement. But she considered abortion anyway, saying, “[W]hen it came to my own situation I felt that I didn’t have a choice. I was vulnerable, and it seemed that at that point it was the easy [thing]\u2026 Which is why it shouldn’t be a choice.”<\/p>\n

She made an appointment at an abortion facility. But on the day of her abortion, the alarm she set didn\u2019t go off, and she overslept and missed the appointment. She never rescheduled it. Instead, she decided to have her baby.<\/p>\n

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Carl didn\u2019t feel ready to raise a baby, and she chose to make an adoption plan for her son instead. She says, \u201cI was young. I was still being parented. My mom was still making my lunches every day for school, and I was in no place to be a parent.\u201d When she met the couple she would select to be her child\u2019s adoptive parents, Brian and Jen, she felt \u201cit was right. At a time in my life when there were so many wrongs, it was nice to finally have a right.\u201d<\/p>\n

Years later, she has no regrets about the adoption. She says, \u201cThey’re family now. We’re all one giant, confusing, messy family. But it’s awesome. He’s where he needs to be.\u201d<\/p>\n