This is Why Rape is Never a Justification for Abortion
I am sure that Planned Parenthood-Wisconsin would go bonkers over this. They are up in arms because both Republican candidates for governor are solidly Pro-life. In a recently issued statement they decried that both candidates" would leave rape and incest victims who became pregnant from horrific crimes with no place to turn for safe, legal and compassionate abortion care". PP-Wisc tries to make it sound like these candidates are extreme & out of touch. The fact is PP-Wisc are the extremists & out of touch. They want unlimitted abortions despite the fact that the USA is becoming more & more Pro-life & it is PP that is out of the main-stream, not these candidates.
PP has an additional statement that sounds very suspect to me. They claim that "According to the latest research from the CDC, 99 percent of sexually active women use some form of birth control at some point in their lives." Even if they counted Natural Family Planning as birth control, this number still sounds suspiciously higher than reality. & even if 99% did, the way the statement reads that doesn't mean they consistantly did, which is what PP is trying to imply. I did find the research & found some interesting facts. 1st there is this opening line from the extract: "This report presents national estimates of contraceptive use." The "estimates" were also based on an 80% response rate. I would also love to know what the number of faithful Catholics included in that study was. (Note: the study did include NFP.) The whole thing just reeks of too much manipulation. The CDC has been clearly shown to have an anti-life, pro-abort agenda in the past (Lime 5) that makes this research very suspect to me.
Rwandan Genocide Rape Victims Grateful for Children Conceived in Rape
By Thaddeus M. Baklinski
KIGALI, Rwanda, June 30, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The tribal genocide of 1994 in Rwanda resulted in more than 800,000 Rwandan deaths and countless women suffering rape at the hands of the Hutu militia who were ordered to kill off the country's minority Tutsi tribe.
Now, 16 years later, the children of the raped women are facing the reality of how they were conceived. They and their mothers are looking for acceptance in a society that is still healing from the horrors of the past.
One Tutsi woman who barely escaped with her life after having been raped on three different occasions by several assailants, told the BBC in a special report that she is deeply thankful for her daughter, despite the circumstances of her conception. She said there was never a time when she did not love her.
Anastasie Kayirangwa said, "I was raped on three occasions in different locations and by many different people. With the exception of one person, I didn't know who any of them were."
Anastasie told her daughter Diane, now 16, about the circumstances of her conception when she was 12.
"Diane had already asked me. I told her when she was about 12 years old. She was grown up. I told her when we were alone," Anastasie said.
"It pained her. She cried, she stood up and she moved here and there because of anger."
However, Anastasie says she was able to convince her daughter that although she did not know who her father was, she loved her “enough for two parents,” in the words of the BBC.
"There wasn't even a moment when I didn't love her. I've loved her ever since she was born," Anastasie said.
"My family gave her horrible nicknames like 'hyena'. But I've never wanted anything bad to happen to her."
Anastasie related that due to the stigma of rape she has not been able to find a husband. However, she is able to provide for herself and Diane by buying and selling goods at the local market.
She said she does not dwell on the past and the crimes committed against her, and hopes her daughter will be able to overcome the difficulties in her life and not be defined by the identity of her father or how she was conceived.
"Memories of 1994 are not brought back by Diane," Anastasie said. "1994 is no longer prevailing in me. Instead of remembering 1994, I think what my children would eat - their education. 1994 is no longer in me."
"Besides, Diane is a child born in a different Rwanda. I hope that her future will be good," Anastasie said.
But not all women were so easily able to accept and to love their children as Anastasie. Another mother who spoke to the BBC, but who asked to remain anonymous, related how upon the birth of her son, who was conceived in rape, she was tempted to throw the child down the latrine.
"I didn't see him as my child. I didn't love him at all," she says. "In him, I saw the image of spears. I saw machetes. I saw very bad things."
"I saw him as a killer, a son of a killer.”
However, she says she encountered other women who were in similar circumstances as her, and came to realize that “of course, he (her son) was innocent, it wasn't him who did these things.”
"So now I've changed,” she said. “Now he sees that I'm close to him. We go out together. We walk around in Kigali."
Now, she says, her main object is to find a sponsor for her son, to enable him to get an education, so that “when he grows he will be able help himself and others."
Read the BBC special report here.
See related LSN articles:
Rape Victim says God Granted a "Rush of Love" for her Unborn Child Moments before Abortion
KIGALI, Rwanda, June 30, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The tribal genocide of 1994 in Rwanda resulted in more than 800,000 Rwandan deaths and countless women suffering rape at the hands of the Hutu militia who were ordered to kill off the country's minority Tutsi tribe.
Now, 16 years later, the children of the raped women are facing the reality of how they were conceived. They and their mothers are looking for acceptance in a society that is still healing from the horrors of the past.
One Tutsi woman who barely escaped with her life after having been raped on three different occasions by several assailants, told the BBC in a special report that she is deeply thankful for her daughter, despite the circumstances of her conception. She said there was never a time when she did not love her.
Anastasie Kayirangwa said, "I was raped on three occasions in different locations and by many different people. With the exception of one person, I didn't know who any of them were."
Anastasie told her daughter Diane, now 16, about the circumstances of her conception when she was 12.
"Diane had already asked me. I told her when she was about 12 years old. She was grown up. I told her when we were alone," Anastasie said.
"It pained her. She cried, she stood up and she moved here and there because of anger."
However, Anastasie says she was able to convince her daughter that although she did not know who her father was, she loved her “enough for two parents,” in the words of the BBC.
"There wasn't even a moment when I didn't love her. I've loved her ever since she was born," Anastasie said.
"My family gave her horrible nicknames like 'hyena'. But I've never wanted anything bad to happen to her."
Anastasie related that due to the stigma of rape she has not been able to find a husband. However, she is able to provide for herself and Diane by buying and selling goods at the local market.
She said she does not dwell on the past and the crimes committed against her, and hopes her daughter will be able to overcome the difficulties in her life and not be defined by the identity of her father or how she was conceived.
"Memories of 1994 are not brought back by Diane," Anastasie said. "1994 is no longer prevailing in me. Instead of remembering 1994, I think what my children would eat - their education. 1994 is no longer in me."
"Besides, Diane is a child born in a different Rwanda. I hope that her future will be good," Anastasie said.
But not all women were so easily able to accept and to love their children as Anastasie. Another mother who spoke to the BBC, but who asked to remain anonymous, related how upon the birth of her son, who was conceived in rape, she was tempted to throw the child down the latrine.
"I didn't see him as my child. I didn't love him at all," she says. "In him, I saw the image of spears. I saw machetes. I saw very bad things."
"I saw him as a killer, a son of a killer.”
However, she says she encountered other women who were in similar circumstances as her, and came to realize that “of course, he (her son) was innocent, it wasn't him who did these things.”
"So now I've changed,” she said. “Now he sees that I'm close to him. We go out together. We walk around in Kigali."
Now, she says, her main object is to find a sponsor for her son, to enable him to get an education, so that “when he grows he will be able help himself and others."
Read the BBC special report here.
See related LSN articles:
Rape Victim says God Granted a "Rush of Love" for her Unborn Child Moments before Abortion
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/sep/09091108.html
Book Shows Why Abortion for Young Rape Victim Is Likely to Harm, Not Help
Book Shows Why Abortion for Young Rape Victim Is Likely to Harm, Not Help
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/apr/10042807.html
Woman Conceived in Rape Thanks Quebec Cardinal for Abortion Statements
Woman Conceived in Rape Thanks Quebec Cardinal for Abortion Statements
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/may/10052005.html
Woman Who Suffered Rape and Abortion as Teen: Thank You Cardinal Ouellet
Woman Who Suffered Rape and Abortion as Teen: Thank You Cardinal Ouellet
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