{"id":291883,"date":"2023-05-30T18:40:56","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T23:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=291883"},"modified":"2023-05-30T13:03:53","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T18:03:53","slug":"woman-conceived-in-rape-insulting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/woman-conceived-in-rape-insulting\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman conceived in rape says it’s ‘insulting’ to call her a ‘rapist’s baby’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A woman who was conceived in rape has spoken against the pro-abortion narrative in a letter to the editor<\/a> for the Times-Picayune\/The New Orleans Advocate.<\/p>\n

Amber Dubois is a wife and teacher, whose mother was raped as a teenager. Though her mother did not live near her family and was not religious, she did not have an abortion \u2014 something Dubois said many others might have considered.<\/p>\n

“Instead, to this day, she tells me I am the best decision she ever made,” Dubois wrote. “She told me she knew I was a human life, and that the gift of a beautiful life would outweigh the nightmare of being violated. She agreed that I should not be killed because of the horrific crime of my biological father. She decided that I would be her child, no matter what.”<\/p>\n

Many, even among those who call themselves pro-life, say exceptions to laws protecting preborn children should be included for women who are raped. But, Dubois said, people like her do not deserve a death sentence for the crimes of their parents.<\/p>\n

“What if we were all labeled, tried and judged for the worst crimes of our parents?” she asked.<\/p>\n