What! Wait! Why?
How is a baby conceived by rape so different from a baby conceived any other way and why are we more deserving of the brutal murders committed in late term abortion centers across the country?
Biologically no one could tell the difference. Visually we are developing similarly. 
Our little bodies are essentially, in every way similar. Babies feel the pain of the chemicals burning them from inside and out, or the knife cutting off limbs, the forceps grabbing at their flesh, pulling and twisting arms and legs off, even the last excruciating attack of the abortionist: crushing their skulls.
In what world is it ok to do this to anyone? Shamefully, in ours. A most pitiful people we are: killing our own children for convenience of one kind or another.
When the gruesomeness of these events come to light, and the studies show that these tiny people can feel pain, there are some who would try to inhibit the suffering by any legal means available, including providing a statute to prohibit the murder of the innocents at late stages of development. HB1797 would ban abortions after 22 weeks, a period of development wherein a pain response is well documented. But some would make exceptions!
Except for children conceived by criminal acts! The baby did not commit the crime. The innocent are expected to pay for the crimes of his or her fathers. Disgraceful! No other place in our society requires innocent blood as penalty for crime.
This most permanent solution to a temporary situation will never un-rape the woman. Pregnancy is temporary. No pregnancy lasts forever. However; abortion IS forever. Many women regret abortion for the rest of their lives. It never leaves. It never fades. For some, it is never healed.
Rape has its own set of traumatic consequences. Especially if a woman remains silent for a long time and more especially if she remains silent until such time as she finds herself pregnant. Then the shame and humiliation of the rape is exponentially compounded by the suspicion of others not believing she was raped, but that she was willing and now vindictive. The distrust is often palpable and destroys all kinds of relationships.
Tragically, many expect women to want to kill their children conceived by rape. More women know instinctively that killing the child will not help them heal from the rape and the child is not responsible and that it is their child. Remember that it is her child. The baby growing inside of her is hers. The baby inside of her is totally and completely protected by her alone, totally and completely dependent on her for survival, nurturing and growth.
I find it absurd to think a woman wants to kill her child under any circumstances. Most of the women I have counseled tell me that they were pressured, even forced into submitting to abortion. Some, like me, had to physically run away to avoid the abortionists table. Some gave in to plans for the future or fear of the same, others felt they couldn’t provide for the child and saw it as an easy way out, only to find it haunting and very difficult to cope with as well as very physically painful.
Abortion is a permanent solution to a temporary situation. Women need a bridge of help to get them through and they need options for handling the fact that they have a baby. We need to acknowledge that a pregnant woman is a mother. She can be the courageous mother of a child lent out to adoption or raised with family or she can be the mother of a dead baby, killed by her compliance.
A woman pregnant by rape is no different. She is a mother. She can be a mother of a live baby or a dead one.
How will you help?