Although pro-life leaders are among the loudest advocates for mothers who were raped, the movement to strengthen victims’ parental rights has champions on both sides of the abortion debate. The Obama-era initiative was introduced by the Florida congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a pro-choice Democrat, and it received bipartisan support in the House and the Senate.
One morning at Kiessling’s home, I met Ahmad, who belongs to the support group for mothers. A veteran of the Army Reserves, Ahmad alleges that she became pregnant, in 2014, after an ex-boyfriend—also her former unit commander—sexually assaulted her. She went through with the pregnancy and gave birth to a daughter in 2015. “When she was born, I didn’t know what to think,” Ahmad told me. “Because this is my child, but this is also my permanent connection to him.
The women on the support-group call echoed Prewitt’s complaints. “The message should be ‘Punish the rapist,’ ” Teresa said. “Not ‘Abort! Abort! Abort! Or else you’re going to have to share custody.’ ” Kiessling had testified at the invitation of the bill’s sponsor, a state representative named Rachel Rodriguez-Williams, who runs a crisis-pregnancy center in Cody, Wyoming. Their abortion ban passed handily in Wyoming’s state senate, but, in a final review of the bill, a pro-choice Republican had proposed adding exceptions for the “very egregious circumstances” of rape and incest. The amendment squeaked by, fifteen to fourteen, after one pro-life state senator was excused from the vote.
As a law student at Wayne State, in the early nineties, Kiessling converted to Catholicism and wrote a forty-three-page “Philosophical Abortion Essay.” The paper, now posted on her Web site with a note warning students not to plagiarize, concludes, “It is an indisputable fact that an unborn child is a living human being since no human ‘fetus’ has ever been known to develop into a dolphin, a rabbit, or a carrot.
Well, with women crying 'rape' left, right and center these days, do the authorities really have the time to hear 'rape' allegations all day, in the context of 'deserving' an abortion? I mean, come on. Don't all 'rape' victims belong in concentration camps?
Why do you keep reposting this? I don’t look for ir want click bait in my feed and will unfollow if I see it again.
Just another white savior out here doing the lord's work! 🙄
If only her mom had handled it before she could ruin even more lives
Completely sickening. She needs some serious therapy.
Booooooo !
Evil bitch
Correction: A Hateful Person’s Quest To Convert Her Hatful Ideas Into Policies Which Destroys Other People’s Lives
What’s her plan for contributing to raising these children? Tell women it’s their fault for being raped, suck it up?
What is the goal of attempting to humanize this type of “advocacy”? This is not the prevailing opinion of Americans and removing rape exceptions will cause incalculable harm to people with uteruses. Do better.
So, it’s all about her.
Couldn’t be worse in Iran.
religious extremists are terrorists
It's a good profile and I'm glad to see her perspective given a new audience, but 1) the scare quotes were noxious 2) baffling omission of the Turnaway study, whose findings were selectively reported:
You might disagree with her and profile her negatively. That's fine. But it isn't fine to harass survivors or contact their rapists, leading to risks to their security. Shame on you if that's what you've done in order to do this article.
Why are yall pretending to care about rape victims when the reporter who wrote the article went out of his way to contact women's rapists and incite harassment against them?
Orrrrr we could just not. We don’t actually need to hear the same tired ‘logic’ from these people anymore. Time to just smack them down into silence.
Strange take here - and I'm 100% pro choice... I find those who are anti choice who make rape/incest exceptions to be the real hypocrites. If they truly believe the bunch of cells is a person then why does that exception apply?
Fetuses are only babies if the sex was consentual.
Wow. Imagine getting up in the mornings and making getting rid of the rape exception in abortion bans part of your reason for being.
“Anti-choice”
Can u keep silence nd patience for time being . If u think I m a fool ,Think again .
Why the long face?
No.
What a ghoul
why are you giving her a platform?
Incredible woman.
Incredibly compelling and powerful perspective. Good for for taking the time to explore her story.
Lots of people here seem to be missing a pretty important point: Homiciding a child doesn't 'fix' a rape. It just kills a child, destroys evidence, and lets a rapist off the hook.
1/ 'Kiessling speaks similarly about tweaking societal conditions to solve the problem of unwanted pregnancies.' 'There are about 330,000 unwanted pregnancies every day around this world of ours, about 7700 of them in the US, and that’s an awful situation. RebeccaKiesslin
Does she have any children?
Turns out, she is exactly like her rapist father. Yikes.
As an adoptee I find it disturbing and disgusting that she is using us as poster children for misogyny, and reproductive terrorism. BansOffOurBodies Forcing rape victims to give birth is not a remedy for her existential crisis.
What a fucking horrible woman
Put as much energy and effort into prosecuting rapists and you’d have a more convincing argument rather than “live with it”..
The lady in red as earnest nazi.
Her father was a sociopathic rapist so it seems the apple doesn’t fall far the tree. Just another narcissist looking for attention, albeit one that hurts women.
Really, , this is gross. This woman wants to end rape exceptions. Time to rethink my subscription.
Yeah right, if only she sticks to that 'line of work' instead of trying to interfere with others' choices at the same time. Maybe investigate if there has been any conflict between being an attorney and a zealot
Even this selfish post was posted by her only .I know
So the man can choose the mother of his child, but the woman can't choose the father. Sick.
Rebecca’s story is a fascinating look into “nature vs nurture,” and a compelling case for abortion.
can't believe you hid this reply. is the new yorker afraid of honest feedback?
Weirdo
Because what's one more violation, right? Sickening.
“The woman that wants to force you to have your rapist’s baby and eventually custody.”
Hideous
In no way is she 'advocating' for these mothers by attempting to end the rape exception. She's attempting to remove their bodily autonomy. This is garbage propaganda for the anti-choice movement and you should be ashamed.
Go after the men who rape!! What a waste of a legal career to become such a bad faith actor. 😞
i hope there is a really long hair in her Christmas dinner roll
‘advocating’
Imagine thinking you should contol others bodies.
I am embarrassed for you. Giving this woman a platform empowers rapists.
Abortion is infanticide, no matter how you put it
Why is it any of your business what other people choose to do. Its arrogant to think you can restrict that choice for other people when it affects you 0%
Sounds like she’s taken “narcissism” to a professional level
Really, WTF? She was going to force a CHILD to give birth TWO MONTHS PREMATURELY to a baby fathered by the victim’s brother?!?! No credible OB/GYN would agree to deliver a baby that early without a sound medical reason. obgyntwitter
Why did you feel it was appropriate to give this woman a platform? Haven’t rape survivors been traumatized enough? Shame on you.
What a zealot.
Disgusting. Shame on you for giving her a platform.
Have you done an interview with her mother?
The “I wouldn’t have been born” argument is absurd.
If you believe the thing inside the mother's womb is another human being it's origin is irrelevant... simply being a human being afforded human rights even if it's biological father deserves prosecution....
No one has the right to dictate health decisions to anyone else. And after all the lies in the Mike Lindell propaganda movie, frankly I don’t believe that she is the result of rape.
'So that's why I want to force other women to give birth even when brutally raped, because I was born.' is what that boils down too. Disgusting stance wrapped in a terrible attempt to justify it.
She's a living embodiment of why the exception is necessary
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