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NEW BOOK SMASHES RAPE EXEPTION FOR ABORTION IDEA
WASHINGTON, May 25 (LSN.ca) - Julie Makimaa, co-author of a new book shattering the notion of a "rape exception" for abortion, was herself conceived as a result of a rape. Focus on the Family reported Tuesday on the book, entitled "Victims and Victors: Speaking out about their pregnancies, abortions and children conceived in sexual assault".
"I was the result of rape," Makimaa told Focus. "(As a society) we have been convinced that compassion means abortion - that (the mother) will never love the child, that she cannot emotionally and physically endure the pregnancy - but that is not what these women have shared with us," Makimaa said. "As my birth mother shared with me the first time we met, she said, 'When I look at you, you are not the painful reminder of what happened that night, but you are something good that came out of what I went through’."
"The vast majority of the women (interviewed for the book) who had abortions felt that abortion was a bad idea," said Amy Sobie, another co-author. "They almost unanimously stated that it only compounded their problems. In a lot of cases, they felt that it was a worse experience than even the experience of sexual assault itself." She said all of the women who carried to term believe that they made the right decision.
(with files from Citizenlink - Focus on the Family)
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