{"id":252755,"date":"2021-09-08T14:26:13","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T19:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=252755"},"modified":"2022-07-17T12:33:02","modified_gmt":"2022-07-17T17:33:02","slug":"rape-survivor-pregnant-matters-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/rape-survivor-pregnant-matters-much\/","title":{"rendered":"Rape survivor who chose life: A raped and pregnant woman ‘matters too much for us to look the other way’"},"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. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

This\u00a0article was originally published as a Facebook post<\/a> and is reprinted here with the author’s permission.<\/i><\/p>\n

Being completely pro life, truly pro life, means having some uncomfortable conversations. So let’s have one. You may hate me for this. I may hate me for this. To be honest, this was always my biggest struggle. A child bearing a child. It took listening to those who lived these stories, women who once were the raped and pregnant adolescent… before I could start to understand.<\/p>\n

Some were forced to abort. Others became mothers before they could see a PG-13 movie. The raped and pregnant child. Doesn’t she matter?<\/p>\n

Slow exhale.<\/p>\n

Doesn’t she MATTER?<\/p>\n

Of course she matters. She matters so very much. She matters too much for us to look the other way while she is tormented in the abortion – abuse – abortion-abuse cycle.<\/p>\n

Not sure what I mean?<\/p>\n

Planned Parenthood has been exposed<\/a> on video<\/a> telling “sex traffickers<\/a>” that they don’t ask<\/a> about age or relationships. Hey – *shrug*- don’t ask, don’t tell. Not our business<\/a>. No. Because their business is abortion<\/a>. And we know from the young girls who have suffered and from the clinic’s own records that the very young brought in for abortion would then leave with the adult who brought them, no questions asked… and the next time… and maybe the next time. Over and over she is sent back into the hands of her abuser.<\/p>\n