{"id":298986,"date":"2023-09-20T14:46:21","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T19:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=298986"},"modified":"2023-09-22T21:26:54","modified_gmt":"2023-09-23T02:26:54","slug":"pregnant-rape-12-chose-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pregnant-rape-12-chose-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Pregnant from rape at 12, she chose life: ‘Abortion is not a solution,’ it’s a ‘double rape’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lianna Rebolledo, founder of Loving Life<\/a>, recently sat down with Live Action president and founder Lila Rose to discuss her experience of choosing life for her baby after she was raped.<\/p>\n

At the age of 12, Rebolledo was at a small shopping center in Los Angeles when two men took her, raped her repeatedly, and left her for dead. When she came home from the hospital, she struggled with depression and attempted suicide by taking all of her medication at once. She was taken to the hospital where she learned she was pregnant.<\/p>\n

“The doctor told me not to worry,” Rebolledo told Rose, “because it was legal \u2014 abortion was legal. But in those moments you only want to hear kindness, you need sympathy, you need love, you need care. So I wondered, why he was telling me, ‘You can always get an abortion. You don’t even have to pay for it.'”<\/p>\n

Rebolledo said she knew she had a baby inside of her and refused an abortion. She said that girls who are sexually assaulted and become pregnant do not need abortion, but that abortionists are looking to profit off of their trauma.<\/p>\n