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Today’s special guest, Rebecca Kiessling was conceived in rape and is also an abortion survivor. Since 1995, Rebecca has been an international pro-life speaker; she is also an adoption advocate and actively promotes 100% pro-life legislation.

She is the Director of Save the 1 and co-founder of Hope After Rape Conception. Rebecca is also a National Spokeswoman for Personhood USA, and she’s helped pregnant rape victims all around the world to choose life for their children. She’s also an attorney, wife, and mother of 5 – including two adopted children. 

 

From Savethe1.com:

Are you 100% pro-life?

We’ve all heard someone say: “I’m pro-life… except in cases of rape,” or “I’m pro-choice, especially in cases of rape!” Justice demands that only perpetrators pay for their crimes.  We must not punish innocent children for someone else’s crime.

Rape and abortion are wrong for the same reason; they are both violent acts of aggression against another person. If you really care about rape victims, you should want to protect them from the rapist, and from the abortion, and NOT the baby. A baby is not the worst thing which can happen to a rape victim — an abortion is.

“See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven. What do you think? If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go to look for the one that wandered off? And if he finds it, truly I tell you, he is happier about that one sheep than about the ninety-nine that did not wander off. In the same way your Father in heaven is not willing that any of these little ones should perish.” Matthew 18:10-14

 
This is about life and justice: is it right to punish the child for the sins of the father? (See Deut. 24:16)

“While insulting those of us conceived in rape, they actually inadvertently are admitting the truth that we were a baby or a child while unborn. You never hear them say “rape fetus” or “fetus of the rapist!” ALWAYS “rape baby” or “child of the rapist”…

“Look, you can be pro-soldier and not pro-war. You can be pro-firefighter and not pro-arson. You can be pro-law enforcement and not pro-crime — even though it’s true that without crime, there’d be no law enforcement. You can also be against IVF and against adultery, but support protecting the lives of unborn children conceived via those methods.” (Rebecca Kiessling)

 

Save The 1’s mission is to educate everyone on why all pre-born children should be protected by law and accepted by society, without exception and without compromise. Further, we wish to educate prolife advocates, legislatures, leaders, and clergy on how to articulate a proper defense of children conceived in rape or incest, as well as those with special needs.

ARTICLES, RESOURCES

Philosophical Abortion Essay – by Rebecca Kiessling

Teen Vogue Instructs Teens on How to Get Abortions Without Their Parents Knowing

Tennessee’s Heartbeat Bill As Is Protects Those Conceived in Rape Like Me and My Son, by Paula K. Peyton

AMA Affirms Position Against Doctor-Assisted Suicide

Democrats Fail to Get Enough Votes to Force Americans to Fund Abortions