{"id":314582,"date":"2024-06-27T06:44:27","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T11:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=314582"},"modified":"2024-09-16T13:26:06","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T18:26:06","slug":"rape-survivors-children-exceptions-deserve-heard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/rape-survivors-children-exceptions-deserve-heard\/","title":{"rendered":"These rape survivors and their children are ‘exceptions’ to pro-life laws, and deserve to be heard"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In its effort to win reelection this year, the Biden campaign is using the story of a young rape survivor-turned abortion advocate to bolster its heavy-handed promotion of abortion, for any reason \u2014 not just in the “hard cases” or “exceptions.”<\/p>\n

Hadley Duvall of Owensboro, Kentucky, was tragically raped by her stepfather as a young child. This led to a pregnancy at age 12, which ended in miscarriage. Now, Duvall is using her story of abuse to campaign for abortion alongside Vice President Kamala Harris.<\/p>\n

Duvall and Harris recently spoke during an exclusive interview with MSNBC<\/a>. Though both made many inflammatory pro-abortion statements, perhaps the most egregious is one Duvall previously made while campaigning for the current Kentucky governor, Andy Beshear. At the time, she claimed \u201cAnyone who believes there should be no exceptions for rape and incest could never understand what it\u2019s like to stand in my shoes.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Duvall to speak this way reveals a lack of awareness of the feelings of many other assault survivors; it is essentially a slap in the face to both assault survivors who have chosen life for their children, and to the children themselves who were conceived as a result of rape. It insinuates that abortion is the only logical option<\/em> for rape survivors and tells the children of those survivors that they should not<\/em> have survived to be born.<\/p>\n

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