Is Abortion Ever Acceptable? – Rebecca Kiessling
In this powerful episode of The Educate for Life Podcast, we step into one of the most difficult and emotionally charged topics Christians face today: abortion. Through the lens of Christian education, biblical worldview, and Christian apologetics, we explore what Scripture, science, and real-life testimony reveal about the value of human life. This conversation equips Christian parents, students, and educators to stand confidently for life while offering compassion to those hurting or seeking truth.
When a Story Becomes a Testimony: Rebecca Kiessling’s Life and Mission
Rebecca Kiessling—international pro-life speaker, attorney, and founder of Save the 1—joins Kevin Conover to boldly address a question many believers struggle to answer: Is abortion ever acceptable? Conceived in rape and nearly aborted twice, her life embodies the biblical truth that every person is made in the image of God, and no circumstance reduces God’s design or a child’s worth.
Rebecca’s story challenges one of the most common objections raised in public schools, homeschool discussions, and cultural debates: “What about cases of rape?” With grace, honesty, and deep theological insight, she explains how understanding God’s heart for the vulnerable reframes this conversation entirely. Her testimony not only strengthens the faith of young Christians, but also empowers families to speak about life issues with clarity, gentleness, and courage.
Drawing from creation science, legal experience, and Scripture, Rebecca helps listeners see why valuing life is inseparable from a strong biblical worldview—and why Christians must be ready to defend life with both compassion and truth.
Key Takeaways
- Why a biblical worldview leaves no room for “exceptions” when valuing human life
- How Rebecca’s story reveals God’s redemption in the middle of trauma
- What Christian parents and educators must teach students about the logic of the pro-life position
- Why abortion harms women—and how pregnancy resource centers offer real hope
- How testimonies dismantle cultural arguments more powerfully than statistics alone
Today on Educate For Life, Kevin has as his guest Rebecca Kiessling. Rebecca Kiessling is a remarkable woman with a powerful story to tell. She is the daughter of a woman that was raped and she was conceived as a result. Her mother could have aborted her, but she didn’t. Rebecca…
Today on Educate For Life, Kevin has as his guest Rebecca Kiessling. Rebecca Kiessling is a remarkable woman with a powerful story to tell. She is the daughter of a woman that was raped and she was conceived as a result. Her mother could have aborted her, but she didn’t. Rebecca is here today to explain how abortion is not acceptable even under the exception of rape.
We’ve all heard someone say: “I’m pro-life, well, except in cases of rape . . .” or “I’m pro-choice, especially in cases of rape !” Have you ever considered how really insulting it is to say to someone, “I think your mother should have been able to abort you.”? It’s like saying, “If I had my way, you’d be dead right now.” And that is the reality with which Rebecca lives every time someone says they are pro-choice or pro-life “except in cases of rape” because Rebecca absolutely would have been aborted if it had been legal in Michigan when she was an unborn child, and she can tell you that it hurts. But she knows that most people don’t put a face to this issue — for them abortion is just a concept — with a quick cliche, they sweep it under the rug and forget about it. Rebecca hopes that, as a child conceived in rape, she can help to put a face, a voice, and a story to this issue.
In reply, some have said to her, “So does that mean you’re pro-rape?” Though ludicrous, she’ll address it because she understands that they aren’t thinking things through. There is a huge moral difference because she did exist, and her life would have been ended because she would have been killed by a brutal abortion. You can only be killed and your life can only be devalued once you exist. Being thankful that her life was protected in no way makes her pro-rape.
Tune in to hear a powerful testimony and learn how even under rape, abortion is not a good response. If you want to learn more about Rebecca Kiessling and her work, head to http://www.rebeccakiessling.com/.
This episode first aired on March 10, 2018.
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Here’s a short excerpt from the episode:
- Kevin Conover: “One of the topics I cover in my worldview classes is the pro-life argument. We look at it scientifically, biblically, and logically—and today’s conversation is a powerful extension of that.”
- Rebecca Kiessling: “I did not deserve the death penalty for the crime of my biological father. Scripture is clear: children are not punished for the sins of their fathers.”
- Rebecca Kiessling: “When people say abortion will help a rape victim, they don’t understand the trauma. Most women say the child was the light in their darkness.”
- Kevin Conover: “If you’re listening today and you feel alone or ashamed, please know—God sees you, loves you, and offers hope far greater than fear.”
Read the Full Transcript
[00:00:00] and now here’s your host Kevin Conover bring your time welcome to educate for
[00:00:07] life I’m your host Kevin Conover my website is joined educate for life org it’s 40 online classes defending the
[00:00:13] truth of the Bible in those classes I cover all kinds of subjects I’ve been teaching apologetics for 11 years and we
[00:00:19] cover all kinds of things like how do I know God exists how do I know the Bible is actually the inspired Word of God is
[00:00:26] there actual historical evidence to confirm the history record in the Bible what about creation evolution and
[00:00:33] another one of the topics I cover in that class is the issue of abortion and the pro-life viewpoint and how we argue
[00:00:40] that both scientifically biblically logically and so forth and we’re gonna be talking a little bit about that today
[00:00:46] because right now up at the Supreme Court there is a case going on I had
[00:00:51] Dean Dean Broyles on the air not too long ago he’s with the National Center for law on policy and right now what’s happening in
[00:00:59] California is a law was passed that basically said that pro-life pregnancy
[00:01:04] care clinics have to advertise for abortion services in their waiting rooms
[00:01:10] and it’s pretty pretty blatant they require the font to be a 22 font it’s
[00:01:16] got to be right where people can see it and you have to hand out flyers or have it posted in your waiting room and a lot
[00:01:22] of people are very upset about this and so this is now at the Supreme Court and it sniffler versus Becerra and Dean
[00:01:31] Broyles is involved along with the Alliance defending freedom in trying to get rid of this law it’s a it’s actually
[00:01:37] compelled speech it’s forcing people to essentially violate their conscience by
[00:01:43] advertising for abortion in a pro-life clinic and my guest today is Rebecca
[00:01:48] Kiessling and she has an amazing testimony she’s actually an attorney also but she was
[00:01:56] conceived through rape and a Rebecca thank you so much for being on the air with us today well thank you very much
[00:02:02] for having me absolutely and I was wondering if we could just start off by going back to you know kind of you know
[00:02:10] how as far as growing up did you grow up been a Christian family and how did you deal with this as a young person growing
[00:02:17] up with the knowledge that you were conceived through rape such a horrible
[00:02:23] traumatic thing well actually I was adopted and raised in a secular atheist
[00:02:31] – Jewish family that makes any sense a
[00:02:36] theist is that right most Jewish families are more secular yeah at least
[00:02:42] in the community where I was that was true and my parents sent me to three
[00:02:47] years or five years of Hebrew school three days a week I was but Mitzvah so I
[00:02:53] was taught at a conservative synagogue so I mean you know we were taught to
[00:02:58] believe in God I wasn’t like we was reformed but my parents didn’t do any of it at home okay I never saw my parents
[00:03:05] pray and it was actually my atheist Jewish grandmother who taught me her pro-life values because after my
[00:03:14] grandfather died I was about 14 or 15 and she began to share this story that when she was pregnant with my aunt who’s
[00:03:22] the younger of her two children and my grandfather had told her to go and get an abortion and she said I never loved
[00:03:30] him again after that she’d say how could they do that how could they kill the babies and I had a face to the issue I
[00:03:38] mean this was my aunt who I adored I couldn’t imagine I was so angry that my grandfather had wanted my aunt killed
[00:03:44] and it was my aunt’s daughter who
[00:03:50] basically betrayed my grandmother by having an abortion herself like a couple
[00:03:56] years before that and I know it devastated my grandmother but she she had kept a secret the family secret
[00:04:03] for so many years and so she wasn’t able to influence the values of her family you know by telling that story maybe my
[00:04:11] niece would have valued life more if she had known this story about her own
[00:04:18] mother Wow now how did how did you come to find out I mean when did your parents
[00:04:25] decide to make you aware that you were conceived through rape they didn’t know I learned when I was 18
[00:04:34] and I received with coal mine an identifying information it had a lot of details about my birth mother but all it
[00:04:40] said for my biological father was that he was Caucasian and of large build and of course I thought that sounds like a
[00:04:47] police description so I called my caseworker and just asked you know with my mom right and she said yeah I didn’t
[00:04:54] want to tell you and so my parents didn’t know how to deal with it um they
[00:05:00] kept saying things like oh there must be some mistake or a whole lot of when we used to lie about being raped like no
[00:05:07] they didn’t so Michigan was not like a rape exception stage there was no reason
[00:05:12] for her to make up this story and when I met her she sold me in on the horrific
[00:05:18] details and it was like one of those truly worst-case scenarios and most
[00:05:24] women don’t want to acknowledge that this horrible thing was done there’s a book called I never called it rape and
[00:05:29] it’s very difficult for a woman actually to admit that this horrific thing was
[00:05:35] done to them my understanding is that abducted yeah go ahead I’m sorry she was
[00:05:42] abducted at knifepoint by a serial rapist and brutally raped Wow
[00:05:50] yeah that’s absolutely awful and I’ve heard the stats on the amount of women that don’t report a rape that takes
[00:05:56] place and so you know our culture and especially with what’s come out recently
[00:06:01] and with all the sexual abuse and so forth but so when you found out about
[00:06:09] this when you found out were you a Christian at that point at 18 years old or were you were you believing in God or
[00:06:17] what was your what were your spiritual views at that point so I first came to know Christ when I was 15 I had a friend
[00:06:26] invited me to hear a special speaker who laid out the mess the gospel and he
[00:06:32] actually went through Old Testament prophecy and they were so compelling to me and I am believed at night I raised
[00:06:40] my hand went to an altar call but I knew that with my family like this was a war oh yeah I mean I might as well tell my
[00:06:47] parents I joined the Nazi Party you know because this was like the greatest betrayal for them even though they were
[00:06:52] you know its atheist this was a huge betrayal yeah I had on that and they did
[00:06:58] not handle it well I had a gentleman on the radio who who is a part of the
[00:07:04] Messianic Jewish movement and he told me that basically his family identified as
[00:07:09] we don’t believe in Jesus that was their their thing as Jews more than
[00:07:14] identifying with the Jewish culture or nationality so yeah that must’ve yeah oh yeah and and and the whole I didn’t even
[00:07:23] know they didn’t believe in God like Jews don’t eat pork you know and it was funny like all of all of the terrible
[00:07:31] things that the do I mean this is how my family talked all of my family extended family talked about the going
[00:07:38] you know the going on which is a derogatory term for Gentile and I was
[00:07:46] called shiksa when I would go to the High Holidays to the synagogue because I
[00:07:52] was full you know real blonde girl Oh thought the shiksa I mean they just like knew you know my heritage wasn’t Jewish
[00:07:59] I’m not my what does that mean shiksa what does that mean success a derogatory
[00:08:04] term for a non-jewish girl so like they would say oh you may marry the shiksa
[00:08:11] you know I go with a terrible thing you know because they believe that you are whatever your mother’s religion is so
[00:08:17] with much worse to them if if a guy
[00:08:22] marries a shiksa Wow because you’re supposed to you know and that’s why I would say to them it just has nothing to
[00:08:28] do with faith yeah you are one of your mother’s womb isn’t it yeah they would
[00:08:33] home to that I always heard that growing up well that’s amazing well what a crazy
[00:08:38] upbringing and so so you you at fifteen accept Christ and now I’ve heard of
[00:08:45] Jewish parents actually kind of almost disowning they’re their children after did that happen to you or what how did
[00:08:52] you move forward it was rough I mean my parents took me to see the rabbi who dipped me in water
[00:08:59] when I was three years old it’s called the miksa which means blessing but as you can imagine it’s sort of like the
[00:09:05] baptism of John and they explained how I was like a purification Rite and they
[00:09:12] explained how I was made dua SH and I didn’t really have any other choice about it and then that’s what they said beside you are whatever your mother’s
[00:09:19] religion is and you know I said so there’s nothing with faith my dad said that’s right tradition and he started
[00:09:25] saying like from on the roof you know you should be a character he could be funny but he could also be really cool
[00:09:30] oh wow okay well we’re coming up on a break here and for those of you listening who are listening and we’re
[00:09:36] streaming live here on Facebook so my guest today is Rebecca Kiessling and you can learn more about her on her website
[00:09:42] Rebecca Kiessling calm her last name is spelled ki ESS Li ng and she she was
[00:09:50] conceived through rape and then grew up in a Jewish secular family and so we’re
[00:09:56] gonna continue to have this discussion we’re gonna talk about is it right for a woman to consider abortion in the rape
[00:10:04] scenario and she’s gonna be talking and sharing with us her opinion in her view on this and please go to her website
[00:10:10] Rebecca Kiessling comm we’re gonna be right back [Music]
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[00:13:28] that are they’ve have over 90 clubs now on high school campuses and middle school campuses so that’s fantastic if
[00:13:34] you want to be encouraged about that my guest today is Rebecca Kiessling and she is a pro-life speaker and also an
[00:13:41] attorney and she has it’s personal to her she has a testimony she was conceived through rape and Rebecca when
[00:13:46] we left off on the last segment we were talking about the fact that it wasn’t
[00:13:52] till you were 18 that you found out about this and you were a Christian by that point so how did that I had gone
[00:13:58] away oh you had okay after after about yeah after about nine months I felt forsaken by my church friends they would
[00:14:05] toilet paper the house of whoever did show up to youth group and you know I would always stay in the car this isn’t
[00:14:12] right it’s not fair to the parents and they said well they’re Christians they’ll forgive us I said well you know I don’t ever see this happening but if I
[00:14:18] miss one week please don’t do it to my house because my parents are not Christian and they won’t forgive you all
[00:14:24] my children it’s my house yeah and they did it’s my house and my parents like ditch of your Christian band you know
[00:14:32] and hisses and and they didn’t call didn’t come to pick me up and that Sunday morning and nothing when school
[00:14:40] started we month later she wouldn’t talk to me Wow and I was totally like disenchanted
[00:14:47] like what happened there this piece you know and I did feel like wow this is
[00:14:52] Christian this is like this is so confusing my quest for meeting my birth family was
[00:14:59] part of my journey to find my value identity and purpose
[00:15:04] I saw the movie roots even though I felt for the Jewish people and all of my
[00:15:09] Jewish I know well to my family’s ancestors who have been killed in the Holocaust I knew
[00:15:15] they want my people and I thought that meaning my birth mother was going to
[00:15:21] give me those roots and so I could find where I fit into this world and as you
[00:15:27] can imagine instead it was just so much worse yeah I can’t imagine and so you
[00:15:34] you you you fall away so at what point in your life did you end up coming back to Christ and what was it that compelled
[00:15:41] you to come back to Christ I was in law school and I was beat up to
[00:15:48] by a boyfriend from law school he broke my jaw my front tooth is hanging I eventually lost my front tooth I had
[00:15:54] made some of the worst decisions of my life during that dark period trying to
[00:16:00] make up for everything that I learned everything that had been done to me my abusive family I was raised in hearing
[00:16:07] that my birth mother even though she want to meet me that she had tried to kill me at two back-alley abortions
[00:16:13] she was pro-choice when we met told me it should have been her light I just had
[00:16:19] no foundation and I I wanted to make up
[00:16:26] for all that hurt by proving my worth by proving that I was lovable and I would jump into these relationships and it was
[00:16:35] when I was beat up that again someone invited me to church and they share
[00:16:40] their faith with me and it was they were the small group of young adults and they all share their faith with me and that
[00:16:48] is how I was reconciled to Christ and during that time there was tremendous
[00:16:54] growth were you know I was presented with Scripture how you become you know
[00:16:59] baby Christian and it’s in the spirit of adoption and that was revolutionary for
[00:17:06] me because I had always thought that adoption was second best last resort you know my parents would would not have
[00:17:12] wanted me if they didn’t have to and so to hear that adoption with God’s first choice and a picture of his love for us
[00:17:19] was you know incredible and then the family tree was no longer painful for me
[00:17:25] because we’re told that were grafted it through Christ and so now I can’t embrace the Jews as being my people just
[00:17:33] like um roots ignore your people will be my people John your God will be my god your people will be my people now that’s where I’m
[00:17:41] at instead of sort of running from Judaism that rejected me towards
[00:17:46] Christianity now it was entirely different so and I came to know my value
[00:17:52] identity and purpose in Christ that’s amazing was created I’m not a child of the
[00:18:00] Wraith Osama trial of God God created me in His image for a purpose
[00:18:06] my life was stared for a purpose and that’s Ephesians 1:5 God decided in
[00:18:12] advance to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ this is what he wanted to do and
[00:18:18] it gave him great pleasure and like you’re saying what an incredible test
[00:18:23] just met afford a picture that God is adopting us as heirs with Christ we are
[00:18:29] the brothers and sisters of Christ and we get the inheritance of eternal life that’s right and my parents kept
[00:18:35] threatening to disown me they kept trying to sell my brother because she was in and out of jail in prison eventually my dad just did this on me my
[00:18:44] adoptive father and but that’s okay because I share in a greater inheritance
[00:18:50] absolutely yeah now do you do clear I won’t be forsaken you know though my mother and father
[00:18:56] forsake me though the Lord will receive me amen amen and for those of you listening you know
[00:19:01] what a powerful message that Rebekah is sharing with us here through her own life and through what she’s been through
[00:19:06] that if you’re out there and you’re listening and you feel like hey I feel disowned for my own family or I feel
[00:19:13] estranged from my family or my my friendships or I’ve lost them that’s the great thing
[00:19:18] about God and and our Father and Jesus Christ is that they’re arms are always
[00:19:23] welcoming to us and and no matter how much of a prodigal son or daughter we are God is waiting for us and praying
[00:19:29] for us and loving us to come home to him so take heart through that now Rebecca
[00:19:35] you are you’re currently at a major pro-life event is that right yeah yeah
[00:19:42] it officially starts tomorrow there’s unofficially it started today we had a
[00:19:48] personhood board meeting I’m the founder and president of st. the 1 we are an
[00:19:54] at-large affiliate of personhood Alliance one of the other allied organizations is Cleveland way to life
[00:20:02] and they sponsor the bringing America back to life conference which is the largest pro-life conference in the u.s.
[00:20:08] outside of the Metro so give us an update on what’s currently what’s the status currently in America
[00:20:14] as far as what what are the trends that are happening within I mean you heard me start off the segment with what’s happening in California with nifflas
[00:20:20] you’re probably aware of that what other trends are happening how does the body of Christ need to be praying for for
[00:20:26] what’s happening currently in our country oh gosh I mean there’s so many funds and
[00:20:32] it is really being the body of Christ because you know even within the pro-life movement some people are the
[00:20:38] hands and the feet and eyes and you know and there’s so many different roles to play and you know you could just say oh
[00:20:44] all of the above but you know God uses our gifts and talents and experiences to
[00:20:50] put us in just the right place but yeah I mean it’s every front you can think of
[00:20:56] a growing trend that I am thrilled about is all this pro-life legislation that’s
[00:21:03] getting passed at the state level without exceptions meaning we still have
[00:21:10] problems at the federal level but at the state level it’s just growing more and more legislators who are 100% pro-life
[00:21:16] yeah that’s very exciting I’ve seen so many positive things happening with the
[00:21:21] ultrasound equipment and other things I have several quite a few friends here in San Diego that are working in the
[00:21:27] pro-life pregnancy centers and they’re seeing just a growth in the movement which is very exciting so what do you
[00:21:33] say for our listeners out there who are listening who are having the discussions obviously rape is the most sensitive
[00:21:39] topic and people frequently bring this up they’ll say hey who are you to say a
[00:21:46] woman should have to go through nine months of being pregnant if she was raped and essentially she’s reliving
[00:21:52] this trauma over and over and over again how do you respond to somebody like that
[00:21:57] I’m gonna we’re up on another break here but when we come back my guest is Rebecca Kiessling and her website is
[00:22:04] Rebecca Kiessling com please go and take a look at what she’s doing there she has testimony on DVD that you can
[00:22:11] take a look at as well as many other stories of testimonies of women who have been conceived through rape and all
[00:22:19] kinds of information here to help you be able to communicate that rape is does
[00:22:24] not justify abortion so when we get back she’s gonna respond to that question and how she talks to people about this issue
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[00:25:22] two four seven three I’m in the KPRC studios here in Southern California with and this will actually we’re actually
[00:25:30] pre recording this show even though we’re streaming it live and it’s going to air on Saturday 2 to 3 p.m. so I’d
[00:25:36] love to have you check it out or pass it on to a friend and I’d love to have your feedback and your questions so Rebecca
[00:25:41] how do you respond to somebody who says you know a woman should not have to carry a child through nine months of
[00:25:47] pregnancy if she was raped what what do you say to that well first of all I did
[00:25:55] not deserve the death penalty for the crime of my biological father I believe
[00:26:01] you should punish rapist not babies from a biblical perspective we are told that
[00:26:08] you do not punish a child for the sins of the father and that each is to be
[00:26:14] punished for his own sin it’s a barbaric society where you punish innocent
[00:26:19] children I was not raping my mother yeah I plead
[00:26:25] in a since but there’s some people who speak in those terms is this it was on going
[00:26:30] as if I was raping her as if I was continuing the length if anything it is
[00:26:36] the abortion that perpetuates rape because the abortion is more violence within her body where she was already
[00:26:45] having suffered violence and we know that rape victims are four times more
[00:26:52] likely to die within the next year after the abortion now for they have a higher
[00:26:57] murder rate because rapists love abortion sex traffickers child molesters
[00:27:06] love abortion they can’t continue doing what they do without abortion abortion
[00:27:11] protects and enables rapists by destroying the evidence and allowing
[00:27:17] them to continue oftentimes a young girl of her own mother is exploiting to her
[00:27:22] when leaving her unprotected and so if you really care I mean I appreciate your
[00:27:28] kind about rape victims my dear mothers are rape victim my best friends in life
[00:27:33] I have a global organization of over almost six hundred conceived and right mothers remain mostly mothers who became
[00:27:40] pregnant there who are either raising merchants or birth mothers or they regret a warning and so I very much
[00:27:46] appreciate people’s concern for rape victims but if you really care about them you should want to protect them
[00:27:53] from the rapist and from the abortion and that the baby the baby is not the
[00:28:00] scary enemy yeah and people oftentimes I’ll hear this people say hey well we need to help this woman by allowing her
[00:28:07] to have an abortion I mean some of the articles that I was reading that you sent me specifically you have clergy
[00:28:12] actually saying hey look at it’s okay God is okay with this you need to be able to do this abortion and it just
[00:28:20] seems crazy to me that a lot of people think this is the most common one is they’ll say that God will forgive you
[00:28:26] well do they say the same thing if they’re asked about adultery if they’re asking about pornography if they’re
[00:28:33] asking about rape is they’re going to advise everybody if they’re gonna ask about murders although God will forgive
[00:28:39] you you’re just gonna give her a green light for an animation because of the fact
[00:28:44] that God forgives ya it makes no sense at all it’s a you know like Paul says
[00:28:50] this is not a license to sin yeah praise God that we have the grace that we do but it’s not something we want to take
[00:28:55] advantage of and I I think the real thing is that people think they’re helping them but in fact they’re hurting
[00:29:00] them yeah I heard you say that a person in the next year is four times more likely to die after an abortion and I
[00:29:07] know that suicide ideation goes I up in suicide attempts go up the stats I was
[00:29:13] reading said that 60% of women report suicidal thoughts and 28% attempt
[00:29:18] suicide after having an abortion is that are you are those the stats that you’re familiar with also yeah but it’s even
[00:29:26] higher for basic cells because rape victims are already at higher risk of
[00:29:31] suicide and when you add more violence and you add on top of it
[00:29:37] the death of her child it makes it so much worse what most of these rape
[00:29:44] victims say when the right other stories is they talk about how and this is
[00:29:51] there’s a book called gang called I never called it rape and it talks about how after they raised a lot of women
[00:29:56] don’t engage in self Kin Kin so they just feel they feel what they feel
[00:30:02] worthless right right right and either they’re just not incur themselves or not
[00:30:08] going anywhere or they sort of go off the deep end and some even become promiscuous because they just want on
[00:30:15] themselves they want to think well you know I shouldn’t have something suppresses from there I wasn’t feeling
[00:30:21] linked to get away so you have like half that go that route you have the other half to go the opposite and but you see
[00:30:27] a lot where they’re not engaging it’s health care one way or the other they’re trying to medicate the pain or they just
[00:30:33] you know and they’re not eating right and what ends up happening is the
[00:30:40] manatee home pregnant they express how the child finally gave them a reason to
[00:30:47] begin caring for themselves again because it was they realize that it was no longer just found that now there were
[00:30:53] someone else there to take care of and the child gave them the incentive to begin engaging in
[00:30:58] self-care because it wasn’t just self-care and how over and over again we
[00:31:04] hear them say that the child was the light in the darkness and the child was
[00:31:09] their ceiling how many felt all alone they realize that they were no longer alone – they have this baby who was with
[00:31:16] them they felt like they were in it together just again over and over again this child brought me healing just like
[00:31:22] it says in Scripture first of all it man that for evil God can use for good and
[00:31:27] that God trains beauty for Ashes amen amen if you’re out there and you’re
[00:31:33] considering you know maybe maybe you have an unplanned pregnancy I know I hear about this as a teacher students
[00:31:41] this are going through this sort of a thing and you feel all alone please be aware there are a lot of pregnancy care
[00:31:47] clinics and they’re going to help you they’re going to encourage you they’re going to support you they’ll do things
[00:31:52] financially for you Rebecca I think one of the big things that I hear a lot is that people will say look it if you
[00:31:58] force these these young girls to go ahead and have the child that they’re
[00:32:04] going to end up being in poverty for the rest of their lives and so so that they’re thinking uh we’ve got a these
[00:32:10] girls aren’t gonna be able to go to college they’re not gonna be able to get a job the father’s gonna leave and here they are going to be a single mother
[00:32:17] trying to survive how do you respond to that complaint well I mean a lot of
[00:32:24] these women say that this child was a huge motivator to be able to you know
[00:32:30] finish college or like Shawna Pruitt she you know took a child off to college you
[00:32:36] took her child off to law school and then and now she’s the partner in a huge
[00:32:44] law firm in Chicago doing extremely well for herself you know one of my best
[00:32:50] friends in high school became pregnant and she her child motivated her to take
[00:32:56] care of herself I mean it’s you can do it one of our speakers was the Andrea
[00:33:02] Murray she was in Texas now she’s from Michigan but her mother was 13
[00:33:07] and they were living in poverty in Detroit they were already on welfare and her mom was pregnant as well and her
[00:33:13] mother said it’s my baby or your baby and you’re going to have an abortion workers want abortion clinics she heard
[00:33:20] her heartbeat and ran off the table ran out of the clinic and her mother said where you going I told you you don’t
[00:33:27] come home and they were homeless in and out of homeless shelters the first few years of her life and now only Andrea
[00:33:35] was the first in her family to graduate from University you know her mother and
[00:33:41] suchlike successful doing fantastic so
[00:33:46] it’s not a foregone conclusion that you’re gonna know yeah and it’s awfully elitist to say such a thing I mean you
[00:33:55] know to say that this is a life not worth living and the poorest of poor in
[00:34:00] the United States don’t even compare to come close to the rest of the world and but that’s why you have people like
[00:34:08] George Soros hang to try to bring abortion globally to try to sell it to
[00:34:15] people who are happier then we are in the u.s. they’re far more and they’re happier and their families are stronger
[00:34:22] than they are here but you know you’ve got these elitist who think I know those
[00:34:28] aren’t those are not lives worth living yeah we have to force this abortion agenda on these you know so-called third
[00:34:35] world nations when you know they’re in many respects Warley superior job hmm
[00:34:41] and it’s so true you know the Bible says Christ said seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these
[00:34:46] things will be added unto you as well and so ultimately what we want to do is we want to put God first and trust his
[00:34:53] righteousness with you know value that life and let him supply us with our
[00:34:58] needs rather than trying to fix our situation by doing things that are immoral right yeah and the solution is
[00:35:05] to give real help anyway you know that’s the solution we don’t say you know just good luck to you if you know Pregnancy
[00:35:13] Resource Center’s are so important my birth mother said that there were no Pregnancy Resource Centers back then but
[00:35:19] if there had been she would have gone and it wasn’t until you know I was
[00:35:24] speaking at the end hear me speaks to change her mind about abortion six years after we met now she’s really thankful
[00:35:30] to have me but she was blown away by the work that the pregnancy centers do and
[00:35:37] she said gosh if I would have had that kind of help I totally would have gone that round doesn’t nobody offered me any
[00:35:42] other helper hope so it’s so important that we do have that we need to give people real help you see someone to me
[00:35:49] we should be helping them amen amen my guest today is Rebecca Kiessling and if you’re listening in online feel free to call in and ask
[00:35:56] questions stay with us we have two more segments left we’re going to talk a little bit more about the issue of the pro-life argument and maybe give you
[00:36:03] some help in talking to your friends or neighbors about hey you know what the better option is to keep the child not
[00:36:10] abortion and what what can we do to stop the spread of abortion in our country stay with us we’re going to be right
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[00:38:30] host Kevin Conover and if you’re joining us online feel free to type something into the comments ask some questions my
[00:38:36] guest today is Rebecca Kiessling and she’s an expert on the pro-life issue she is also has an amazing testimony of
[00:38:42] growing up in a family that was secular Jewish and ended up becoming a Christian
[00:38:47] at age of 15 years old and also she was conceived through rape and and today
[00:38:52] she’s an attorney and she’s a speaker on the pro-life movement you can visit our website Rebecca Kiessling calm to get
[00:38:58] all kinds of information resources and help and just get going in the right direction if you know somebody who’s
[00:39:03] struggling with making the decision to abort or not absolutely encourage them
[00:39:09] to go visit a pregnancy care clinic they’re all oversea at Southern California they’re all over the world clinics now that have all kinds of
[00:39:17] resources and like Rebecca was saying you know this isn’t something that necessarily existed in the past but today there are a lot of resources where
[00:39:25] people will go out of their way to help you with things like baby clothes with things like food and formula and all the
[00:39:33] different things that you’re going to need to survive if you want to keep your child and and choose life and so Rebecca
[00:39:41] I wanted to ask you what what kind of advice or counsel would you give to our our listeners who are thinking how can I
[00:39:48] be more involved in this and what can I do to make a difference where I’m at and how do I go about you know communicating
[00:39:55] with my neighbors and my friends and my family in a way that’s effective how did you get how do you get people to change
[00:40:01] their mind hmm well my organization is save the one
[00:40:08] and that’s the number one not the word one and it comes from the parable of the lost sheep wherein Jesus said see that
[00:40:13] you do not decide I mean these little ones try telling their angels and haven’t always looked upon the face my
[00:40:18] father in heaven and then he goes right into the parable of the lost sheep how the Good Shepherd leaves a 99 to save
[00:40:24] the one and he finishes he finishes the parable by explaining it it’s point he
[00:40:29] says for in the same way your father in heaven is not willing that any of these
[00:40:36] little ones should perish so in context he was talking about little ones who are at RIT who are
[00:40:42] despised who are outlift apero saying in today’s society that’s my people group
[00:40:47] that’s D all of the so-called difficult cases in the abortion debate children
[00:40:53] conceived in rape children with special needs you know disabled children in the womb and this is the heart of God so
[00:41:00] educate yourself we have a blog with over 150 stories there they usually get
[00:41:07] published in Life News life that needs live action lots of fantastic stories very uplifting life-affirming stories go
[00:41:15] to our Facebook page we have a lot of wonderful resources there I can tell you
[00:41:20] that look I was able to change God used me to change the heart of Governor Rick Perry and Newt Gingrich during their
[00:41:26] presidential campaigns hey wow I was in the Gift of Life film with Governor Mike
[00:41:34] Huckabee so this is united film I had backstage passes to the premiere so I
[00:41:40] got to speak to the four canit’s who were all speaking at the premiere
[00:41:46] Bachman Santorum parent Gingrich and I had you know one-on-one conversations
[00:41:52] with them and during my conversation with Governor Rick Perry he told me that
[00:41:57] I changed his heart and he pledged no more exceptions he went our national television
[00:42:04] afterward she signed a personhood pledge next morning no exceptions no compromise and so did Newt Gingrich and he went on
[00:42:12] national television talking about our conversation how my story pierced his heart saying he could not look me in the
[00:42:19] eyes and justify the rape exception any longer oh praise God yeah and I’ll tell
[00:42:26] you that if you can change the heart of a governor during a presidential
[00:42:31] campaign your listeners can change the heart of anyone do not be afraid to
[00:42:38] speak up um use testimonies you know mine others we have a global network of
[00:42:46] stories if you’re talking to a local legislator um you know we have stories
[00:42:51] from your you can you know search our blog and you’ll find all these and/or connect
[00:42:57] with me and I can connect you with other people and and you can get them speaking you know in your region or locally we
[00:43:03] have people all over the country with these stories that is grand it’s really stories that pierced the heart yes it’s
[00:43:10] just like in in scriptures the power of our testimonies right absolutely I think the stories really are like you said he
[00:43:17] couldn’t look you in the eye and justify it anymore and that’s the reality is you know when you hear somebody’s story and
[00:43:25] it’s personal it’s not a number out there or some vague idea when you see
[00:43:30] that person in front of you that changes everything yeah and now you’re available to speak
[00:43:35] to at churches and so forth right and you know I was in um I was in San Diego
[00:43:43] recently and I was there a year ago as well both times speaking for pretty few
[00:43:48] center fundraisers no now are you an attorney also for on these issues or as
[00:43:54] your attorney work uh separate I closed my law practice years ago to do the
[00:44:00] activism I do but I maintain my bar dues and I’ve had numerous high-profile cases
[00:44:05] defending human life I represent the mother of Michigan’s frozen Amarillo case I represent a woman
[00:44:11] sued for not aborting for breach of contract I tuned the cases involve rape
[00:44:16] and abortion I just recently had a high-profile case national international
[00:44:22] news representing a rape victim mother where a judge gave her rapist parental
[00:44:28] rights and I got the judge to reverse his order based upon a law that I helped get passed in Michigan the rape survivor
[00:44:35] child custody act you guys need that law in California in California my
[00:44:40] understanding is that you require a rape conviction to terminate the prevalence of rapist the federal law that Obama
[00:44:47] actually signed gives an incentive to states if you use the clear and convincing evidence standard to
[00:44:54] terminate parental rights it’s the highest standard in a civil case this is a civil matter you shouldn’t require a criminal standard in
[00:45:01] these cases just like any other case you shouldn’t have to have a rape conviction to terminate for
[00:45:08] for child abuse for child molestation you shouldn’t have to have a conviction and it’sit’s the same thing so I’m
[00:45:15] hoping that you know we can get this change in California I’ve worked all over the nation to get this change
[00:45:21] that’s been passing unanimously in many many states yeah seems like a just common sense that that would be the case
[00:45:28] yeah yeah but for many people common sense is that these mothers don’t exist
[00:45:35] for there everybody knows it was a true rate that some would have had an abortion and so you end up with these
[00:45:42] women being left unprotected Wow so we need to get the law changed yeah the
[00:45:48] prejudice is so insidious it really ends and and so you Planned Parenthood
[00:45:54] obviously is heavily involved here in trying to shut down all the undercover work that’s been done too and and and
[00:46:00] trying to fight against this and they’re throwing all kinds of money against this and so so are you ever involved in
[00:46:07] petitioning against Planned Parenthood or these would you suggest that kind of activism to our listeners they were
[00:46:15] going to open the largest Planned Parenthood clinic in Michigan was going to open right now next to where my law
[00:46:21] office used to be in the next town over from where I live we got involved right away and the cool thing is that a guy
[00:46:29] who is a realtor decided to go down to the courthouse and being a realtor see
[00:46:36] he had this in mind and he checked the records and found that there was a
[00:46:44] restricted deed covenant and the adjacent properties because they share a
[00:46:50] drive and I mean it was pretty cool this you know realtor was able to make such a
[00:46:56] huge difference using the gifts experience expertise that he had and
[00:47:01] that’s great is it yeah yeah and eventually on this case you know it was
[00:47:07] perfect as the other owners of their hotel didn’t want the clinic opening and
[00:47:12] the question whether a an abortion clinic is considered an office
[00:47:19] you know and instead they’re zoning law to talk about surgical facilities different than an office so it went up
[00:47:27] on appeal and we had a really good pro-life panel and finally Planned Parenthood settled and agreed that to a
[00:47:33] new restricted D covenant that the property to never operate as an abortion clinic and it took them like five years
[00:47:41] to unload that property because they paid too much at the time so we held
[00:47:46] that their money I mean you know that was a huge victory but you never know how God could use your talent so you
[00:47:53] know connect share with people what your skills are what your expertise is and and you know figure out how God can use
[00:48:01] you absolutely so if you’re listening out there my guest today is Rebecca Kiessling and Rebecca Kiessling comm get involved
[00:48:07] you know here in Southern California in San Diego we have college area pregnancy services and on numerous other
[00:48:14] ministries that are involved in rescuing children and supporting mothers helping those mothers so what’s interesting is
[00:48:23] that like like Rebecca’s saying there’s so many different ways that you can get involved and make a difference whether you’re a real estate agent whether
[00:48:29] you’re a nurse a good friend of mine is a nurse and she volunteers at a pregnancy care clinic and there’s just
[00:48:35] so many different ways that you can make a difference we have one real quick if
[00:48:40] you speak multiple languages you could be an interpreter at a pregnancy center yes and that’s a huge we have a huge
[00:48:46] Latino population here in San Diego and so great that’s another great point where we have one more segment left is
[00:48:52] gonna be a very short segment but stay with us I’m gonna give you a quick apologetic argument for why abortion is
[00:48:59] not logical and nor biblical will stay with us we’re gonna be right back [Music]
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[00:51:49] [Applause] welcome to educate for life I’m your host Kevin Conover my web sites educate
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[00:52:01] yeah hello hi I’m calling from El Cajon and just wanted to say how much I appreciate your show and hearing Rebecca
[00:52:09] I’m a victim of rape I was raped when I was 14 ended up having the child when I
[00:52:15] was 15 and ended up keeping him but I had no support and they’re getting that law in California is so important
[00:52:22] because if I were to file rape charges against this person back in 1980 I would
[00:52:29] have been taken for custody from his parents or possibly from him
[00:52:35] and I would not submit my fourth child to that and now my 36 year old child to
[00:52:40] that so how important that law is to get for other rape victims absolutely
[00:52:46] tormented I have to wonder if the custody is going to be taken from them because this person raped
[00:52:52] yeah yeah now first of all let me say I’m so sorry that that happened here you
[00:52:59] deserve to have been protected you know wasn’t your fault and you’re a beautiful
[00:53:06] person and I’m so glad that you chose life and you got to have you know you
[00:53:12] and your son they grow up and I in peace away from that rapist but there again that question and if rape if your rape
[00:53:22] to have an abortion I was tormented by my priest at the time in a local
[00:53:28] Catholic Church saying oh yeah you were raped because your parents don’t get custody of the child you’re too young
[00:53:33] you can’t handle it and you have abortion if you don’t give them custody
[00:53:39] and I said not a nice word but no I’m not going to do that and I raised him
[00:53:45] and I’m proud I raised him well I applaud you for for doing that that’s a
[00:53:51] you know with a huge adversity and everything and and I am absolutely confident God has you know blessed you
[00:53:59] and honored you for that so thank you so much for your testimony in that that’s fantastic I really appreciate you
[00:54:04] sharing this on the air thank you go now I want to make sure that we get to connect because um you
[00:54:11] know on Facebook we have a private Facebook group you can’t search it you
[00:54:17] know I would have to add you but a hundred and ten women who became pregnant by rape who all raised their
[00:54:23] children we have a private birth mothers group we have we have a group for California all people who represent the
[00:54:31] difficult cases all from California I would love to be able to connect with you so I hope you know that you Lee
[00:54:38] email me find me here um either stir savory 1.com or Rebecca Kiessling and
[00:54:44] until my facebook page email me whatever I really really would love to be able to connect and talk to you by phone and you
[00:54:51] know maybe someday you’d want to write your story out but I would love for you to meet the other mothers and for you
[00:54:57] and your son to know that you’re not alone we have a private Facebook group for all the men contingent raped about
[00:55:02] we have about three dozen men in that group thank you for sharing that so much
[00:55:08] yes if I could share my information offline that would be appropriate absolutely absolutely thank you so much
[00:55:16] for calling in yeah god bless you you know I wanted to ask you B we don’t we have just a few minutes left
[00:55:22] Rebecca I wanted to ask you you know I know that there’s a lot of women out there who actually have gone through with abortions and are looking for hope
[00:55:29] and maybe even ha haven’t even told anybody now what would you what would you say to those women who are dying of
[00:55:36] shame and what they did and suffering with the trauma how would you encourage them I’ve had women come up to me and
[00:55:45] confess their abortions to me whether for me or not from it and then through
[00:55:52] tears asked me do you forgive me like wow okay for school yeah well I don’t
[00:55:58] feel like it’s my place like I don’t condemn you it’s not my place to do that and but but to the extent you need to
[00:56:05] sure that yeah yes I do forgive you and then of course I have to share you know
[00:56:11] the forgiveness that I received in Christ you know even when I knew that her and I had you know hurt on her
[00:56:18] myself and had difficulty forgiving myself I was beating myself up as a Christmas I
[00:56:24] like on you better and someone said to me that you know you out did you ask God
[00:56:30] forgive you do believe in God do you believe you send a son to die on the cross yes you have you asking her to
[00:56:36] forgive you yeah and you believe if you forgive you are playing young yeah and the next thing that look when you fail
[00:56:43] to forgive yourself what you’re doing is you’re saying that what you have to say about it is more important what God to
[00:56:50] have to say and that what he did by sending it from the Diana cross wasn’t good enough for you and that but it was
[00:56:56] in vain and that’s warmth that’s the horse and whatever it is that you did in the first
[00:57:02] place and I realized I had to ask for God to forgive me for that and I learned
[00:57:07] what it meant was really to be able to say God’s grace is sufficient but it’s
[00:57:12] not just a little past thing that you say as a Christian but that that’s that’s when it really hits home when you
[00:57:19] can truly say God’s grace is sufficient but I realized that the reason why
[00:57:26] they’re asking me is because what they really want to know is well maybe for
[00:57:33] just me and they they see me as being a surrogate you know someone who you know
[00:57:40] it was target of proportion your Leah border that a couple back-alley abortions and you know nearly escaped us
[00:57:48] they think that if I can forgive them and maybe do their baby will forgive
[00:57:53] them and so you know like what I have to find out is that look we’re told in
[00:57:58] Scripture that um you know my mother and father forsake me the moral is to use me I really believe you misuse these
[00:58:05] children in heaven and that you know who and what there’s no more tears and now
[00:58:10] them and that will recognize each other and you know that that’s what I have to
[00:58:16] offer them because I know that that’s good so many of them really want to know absolutely if you’re out there and you
[00:58:22] you have been either a victim of abortion if you’ve if you’ve had abortion if you’ve if that’s something
[00:58:29] that you are a part of a man or a woman please know that God loves you and you know that this fight
[00:58:36] is not so much a fight against a political issue it’s it’s a fight for
[00:58:41] people to let them know that God loves them and that he has a plan for them and that it’s better than trying to find a
[00:58:49] quick fix or something that you think is going to get you out of a problem when altum Utley God loves that child he
[00:58:56] loves you and he wants the best for you Jesus Christ said in John 10:10 I have come that they might have life and have
[00:59:01] it to the full and so that’s what he wants to do for you he wants to give you life and a lot of people are out there in fear they’re thinking I’m I’m not
[00:59:07] gonna be able to handle this situation what are people gonna think of me people are gonna reject me and they’re wallowing in shame and guilt please know
[00:59:14] that there’s so many people out there that are ready to embrace you and to love you excuse me I’m having a bit of a
[00:59:22] coffee err but we’re out of time Rebecca thanks for being on the program with us today I really really appreciate
[00:59:27] what you’re doing in your ministry thank you thanks so much for having me and I’m so excited there’s one more woman that
[00:59:34] doesn’t have some walk through this alone you know amen amen hallelujah okay well Rebecca Kiessling comm is our
[00:59:41] website we’ll be on the air again next week so I hope you’ll join us we’re gonna have a some more amazing guests
[00:59:47] and please be praying that God would continue to stir the hearts of our leadership and our political people who
[00:59:54] are in a political leadership and and our president and others to continue to rescue people from death and turn them
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