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Saturday, July 12, 2014

Child of Rape: “you can’t let your circumstances define your life”


By Erin Aitcheson
LIve Action News

Every two minutes, a sexual assault claims another victim in America. Additionally, 17.7 million American women have been victims of attempted or completed rape. According to statistics, victims of sexual assault are 3 times more likely to suffer from depression, 4 times more likely to contemplate suicide, 13 times more likely to abuse alcohol, and 26 times more likely to abuse drugs.
In 2012 alone, an astonishing 346,830 women were raped, with a roughly estimated 17,342 pregnancies resulting from those encounters In conjunction, less than 1% of abortions are performed because of a pregnancy that results from rape or incest.
Abortion advocates continually highlight this percentage in an effort to demonstrate the supposed necessity for abortion. However, most abortion providers aren’t concerned with women wanting an abortion based on rape or incest. Rather, this particular reason is abused as a smokescreen to advance the abortion industry’s agenda.
Erin Aitcheson graduated from the University of Alaska Anchorage in December of 2011 with a BA in Philosophy and a minor in English literature. She is currently attending law school at Liberty University School of Law and will receive her J.D. in May 2015. Erin has interned with Smart Girl Politics and Project HEART (Holocaust Era Asset Restitution Taskforce) with the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem Israel.

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