{"id":285698,"date":"2023-02-21T12:36:42","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T18:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=285698"},"modified":"2023-02-20T20:10:42","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T02:10:42","slug":"pregnant-rape-beauty-darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pregnant-rape-beauty-darkness\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Pregnant from rape, Kathy says her son is ‘the beauty out of the darkness’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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While studying at the University of San Francisco in 1990, Kathy Folan<\/a> turned to a friend of a friend for help when she became locked out of her apartment. He told her that she could sleep in his bed while he slept on the couch, but before the night was over, he broke her trust and raped her. A month later, Kathy realized she was pregnant.<\/p>\n

“I think I was just so ashamed, I didn’t tell anyone,” Kathy explained in a video for Live Action. “A month later, I felt nauseated every day. One of my roommates, she took me to the grocery store and got a pregnancy test. When I turned it over and it said positive, I just remember looking in the mirror and not recognizing the person looking back at me. Like this can’t be. This is not my plan. And I panicked, but at the same time, I knew God created the life inside of me.”<\/p>\n

When she told her parents she was pregnant and that her plan was to place the baby for adoption, they gave her their full support. She knew she wanted an open adoption, but the more she thought about who would raise her baby, the more specific the values became that she wanted them to have.<\/p>\n

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