{"id":21295,"date":"2019-05-29T23:07:53","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T23:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/?p=21295"},"modified":"2019-05-30T23:09:12","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T23:09:12","slug":"adopted-into-gods-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/?p=21295","title":{"rendered":"Adopted into God&#8217;s Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19599\" src=\"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Pregnant1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1021\" height=\"609\" srcset=\"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Pregnant1.jpg 1021w, https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Pregnant1-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Pregnant1-768x458.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1021px) 100vw, 1021px\" \/>President Trump says he is pro-life but believes in abortion for babies conceived in rape and incest. Trump tweeted:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As most people know, and for those who would like to know, I am strongly Pro-Life, with the three exceptions \u2014 Rape, Incest and protecting the Life of the mother \u2014 the same position taken by Ronald Reagan.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Pro-life leader Rebecca Kiessling, who was conceived in rape, responded on her<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RebeccaKiesslingProLifeSpeaker\/?hc_ref=ARSC9A4d1lWJ5fa8tO5--ENeNsinVoTcgLeHf60IVoMgex13eQBJTKgYUCTHrdh5IjI&amp;fref=nf&amp;__tn__=kC-R\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>,<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I did not deserve the death penalty for the crime of my biological father. Ask Rick Perry about his conversation with me and how my story pierced his heart he said and that he could not look me in the eyes and justify the rape exception any longer. I\u2019m sure if you met any one of the 800 of us from Save The 1, you would also have a hard time looking us in the eyes and then telling us that we did not deserve equal protection.Strongly pro-life? Mr. President, if you can kill an innocent baby who has no guilt for being conceived in rape and incest, why not kill all the others for other stupid reasons? God calls you to save victims of oppression, and such babies are such victims! Do you want someone killed? Target RAPISTS, not innocent babies!\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Trump is not alone in saying the Alabama law on abortion went too far. CBN and 700 Club Founder Pat Robertson, a staunch abortion opponent, called the Alabama law \u201cextreme,\u201d and should be \u201clegal in case of rape and incest\u201d in spite of the fact his show interviewed Rebecca Kiessling two times to tell her testimony of how she was conceived in rape.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QNpRlczGHOw\" width=\"900\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In response, to Pat Robertson\u2019s comments, Rebecca Kiessling,\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/archive.is\/Yj5lw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a>,<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Pat Robertson @700club, I deserved equal protection. Child sacrifice is an abomination. The child shall not be punished for the sins of the father! You\u2019re wrong to say Alabama\u2019s abortion ban was too extreme for not having a rape exception. You had me on The 700 Club twice, including airing my story. So you values my faith testimony, just not my life?!\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lila Rose, who runs the pro-life advocacy organization Live Action, responded to Trump\u2019s tweet by thanking him for the pro-life advancements his administration has made. But she argued that in order to be pro-life, \u201cwe must be 100% pro-life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A child of rape or incest is not a 2nd-class citizen,\u201d she<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u00a0<a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LilaGraceRose\/status\/1130326182962946049\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>in the tweet. \u201cNo woman or girl is served by abortion or immune to its trauma, including survivors of rape and incest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Live Action\u2019s Twitter account<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u00a0<a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LiveAction\/status\/1129960862486343680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1129960862486343680&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftownhall.com%2Ftipsheet%2Ftimothymeads%2F2019%2F05%2F19%2Ftrump-i-am-prolife-except-in-cases-of-rape-incest-and-protecting-the-life-of-the-mother-n2546557\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">responded<\/a><\/span>\u00a0to Trump\u2019s tweet by posting a video of a testimony provided by Jennifer Christie, who was raped on a <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/faithit.com\/wife-pregnant-rape-keep-baby-jeff-jennifer-christie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">business trip<\/a> <\/span>and impregnated.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Rape or incest are horrible situations, and abusers need to be held fully to the law \u2014 but abortion is not the path to healing.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5VU6FfaO6AA\" width=\"900\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1k2_UQP1V4Q\" width=\"900\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In another <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LiveAction\/status\/1130166222803361792\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweet<\/a>,<\/span> Live Action also reminded followers that Valerie Gatto, former Miss Pennsylvania, was conceived in rape.<\/p>\n<p>Her mother was brutally attacked at knifepoint when she was 19 \u2014 but rejected abortion.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theradiancefoundation.org\/iamtheonepercent\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ryan Bomberger<\/a>,<\/span> a pro-life activist who himself was conceived in rape and adopted by a loving family wrote an article responding to criticisms of the Alabama law titled \u201cI am the 1 percent used to justify 100 percent of abortions.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">My biological mother was raped, yet she rejected the violence of abortion. I was<\/span> <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.adoptedandloved.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">adopted and loved<\/a> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">instead. I\u2019m not the \u201cresidue of the rapist\u201d, as Senator Vivian Davis Figures<\/span> <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mprnews.org\/story\/2019\/05\/15\/npr-alabama-lawmakers-pass-bill-banning-nearly-all-abortions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">described<\/a> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">those like me who were conceived in rape. I couldn\u2019t control the circumstances of my conception. Could you, Senator?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">When it comes to<\/span> <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.radiance.life\/theheartcases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rape and abortion<\/a>,<\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">how do you heal violence with more violence? Let\u2019s be real here. Even if Alabama\u2019s Human Life Protection Act had a rape and incest exception, the confused Handmaid\u2019s Tale cosplayers would still be out in full force. Fake feminists need to exploit tragedy to promote their false equality. And they never seem to find space in their screeds to talk about punishing the actual criminal \u2014 the rapist.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As an adoptee who grew up <em>wanted and loved<\/em> in a multiracial family of fifteen and as a happily married adoptive father with four children, I\u2019m here to say there\u2019s another side of this painful issue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">There are others like me who were conceived in the violence of rape, like my friend<\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/rebeccakiessling.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rebecca Kiessling<\/a>,<\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">an attorney and passionate defender of life.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">There\u2019s the former Miss Pennsylvania<\/span>,<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/conceived-in-rape-former-miss-pennsylvania-shares-why-every-human-life-deserves-protection\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Valerie Gatto<\/a>, <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.travonclifton.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trayvon Clifton<\/a>, <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/conceivedinrape.com\/2013\/12\/13\/monica-kelsey-conceived-in-rape\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Monica Kelsey<\/a>, <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/conceivedinrape.com\/2013\/12\/30\/jim-and-wendy-sable-wanted-children\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jim Sable<\/a>, <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/conceivedinrape.com\/2013\/11\/08\/pam-stenzel-conceived-in-rape\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pam Stenzel<\/a>,<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> and many more whose stories offer a different perspective than mainstream media\u2019s myopic pro-abortion view. There are women who became mothers from rape who courageously chose life, like<\/span> <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/son-conceived-rape-reminder-love\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jennifer Christie<\/a><\/span>,<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/conceivedinrape.com\/2013\/12\/09\/liz-carl-mother-from-rape\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Liz Carl<\/a>,<\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">and<\/span> <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FIYOg-GOjsA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rebekah Berg<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I mean, who really are the extremists here? Those who think that every human being has the right to life? Or people who celebrate the needless slaughter of one million innocent humans each year in America?<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Abby Johnson, a former Planned Parenthood clinic director who founded the ex-abortion worker ministry Then There Were None, responded to Trump\u2019s tweet with a photo of her <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/abbyjohnsonprolife\/posts\/1348915081785228?__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARC2R_QzOMO28ZxmPNOKP9TUCt41qa2X3Rcv4xbZQ_cqf4NaZc_RWENRPYeDiVSghMG3u98VNKrTo1DibzleO6DI6ntar05pDSvWZ6yV723ipleGittgRapzAEF6kgJSB4EtFIADe65s6NboszEhhqL3KbTCGURU7WPMFWhea5Ug7CmeHh7c9d8_NLgLjkJMexq50VECEQntJF9MvF-z4_O7lDeTSasLYuymUnXZzpP38XrLewtDqyqiuAn6-jO0G60ra1I9GbU1lbFA2z4baAMFUrzecoq7kgcRGN76adRM_m91EM9btahP4iOjTpjhKfdLXqd35hlrajchtf6SXlVL4AJlLtplQ__ZrLqbpf528tM8po2Yo5828UK6x0Q4as5bpJ27CLLe8CjchnE1TbdyzryHmxTXJXq-haqpl9klYfdwxnASxt1wjPstb9MSwK0Z4f-7gcqbfwdzORt0O-Kp4pGfYn0bvquzfaqyRtNeN0fGItEJ9GKk2Bp4zxACOnPk&amp;__tn__=-R\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">adopted son<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>My son was conceived in rape. I would love for you to meet him, @realDonaldTrump, and tell me how his life isn\u2019t as valuable as my children conceived in love,\u201d Johnson <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AbbyJohnson\/status\/1130492605152862208\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweeted<\/a><\/span>. \u00a0He deserved to live and I\u2019m so thankful that he does. If we allow some children to die because of certain circumstances, then we become eugenicists,\u201d she <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AbbyJohnson\/status\/1128701969495932929\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote<\/a>.<\/span> \u201cNo better than Hitler.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here I might add James Robinson, the famed TV Evangelist, James was the result of a forcible rape of his mother&#8230;. But he and his wife have dedicated their lives to serve humanity by feeding millions living in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>We can\u2019t choose the family we were born into, but we can choose Who we belong to. Despite the means by which all of us came into this world, it is clear that we all have value and worth in God\u2019s eyes and we all contribute significantly to society and glorify Christ with our gifts and talents.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-bottom-left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F21295&print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F21295&print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump says he is pro-life but believes in abortion for babies conceived in rape and incest. Trump tweeted: As most people know, and for those who would like to know, I am strongly Pro-Life, with the three exceptions \u2014 Rape, Incest and protecting the Life of the mother \u2014 the same position taken by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21295","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-family","8":"wp-image-borders","9":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Pregnant1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4bgnN-5xt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21295"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21360,"href":"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21295\/revisions\/21360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}