Rape Survivor Says “Every Woman is Strong Enough” to Select Life As an alternative of Abortion
Last week, I shared studies on women who became pregnant as a result of rape. They showed that most women chose life and had no regrets. Today, I want to share the story of a woman who was raped and had her baby. She, too, has no regrets.
In a documentary called “Except in Cases of Rape,” Liz Carl (pictured) told her story. Carl was drugged and raped when she was 17, and a senior in high school. She found out that she was pregnant a few weeks later.
She was being raised Catholic, and says she knew “what an abortion was,” and had a lot of information about the pro-life movement. But she considered abortion anyway, saying:
[W]hen it came to my own situation, I felt that I didn’t have a choice. I was vulnerable, and it seemed that at that point it was the easy [thing]… Which is why it shouldn’t be a choice.
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She made an appointment at an abortion facility. But on the day of her abortion, the alarm she set didn’t go off, and she overslept and missed the appointment. She never rescheduled it. Instead, she decided to have her baby.
Carl didn’t feel ready to raise a baby, and she chose to make an adoption plan for her son instead.
She says, “I was young. I was still being parented. My mom was still making my lunches every day for school, and I was in no place to be a parent.”
When she met the couple she would select to be her child’s adoptive parents, Brian and Jen, she felt “it was right. At a time in my life when there were so many wrongs, it was nice to finally have a right.”
Years later, she has no regrets about the adoption. She says:
They’re family now. We’re all one giant, confusing, messy family. But it’s awesome. He’s where he needs to be.
She also says:
Every woman is strong enough to love their child enough not to kill them. And I know that’s harsh, but it’s the truth. And if I’m strong enough, then anybody else can be too.
When a woman initially finds out she’s pregnant through rape, abortion may seem tempting, and it is presented as the solution to an already distressing situation. But abortion does not erase the memory of rape or bring lasting peace.
A child’s worth is not dependent on the circumstances of conception, and no child deserves to die for the crimes of his or her father.
LifeNews.com Note: Dave Andrusko is the editor of National Right to Life News and an author and editor of several books on abortion topics. He frequently writes Today’s News and Views — an online opinion column on pro-life issues.
