May God bless them. In Him there is Hope and Forgiveness and true Love. May their marriage be long and fruitful!

Very beautiful. Thank you.

Wow! Has that man got a woman for a wife!

And just when I was craving a story involving triumph of the human spirit! Thank you!

Not just a special woman, also a special man.  Where God is all things are possible!

What a lovely story.  She took a tragedy and made it beautiful.

Mark, thank you for posting.  What courage this woman showed and such a powerful witness to us all.

God bless this family!
Thank you so much for sharing.
It reminds me of what a priest once told me. He said there are few people still out there who are pro-choice out of any intellectual reasoning. The intellectual arguement has been long won by the pro-life side. The reason so many remain pro-choice is due to disorder, which calls out for change of heart. Your wife and child, and people like Bella Santorum or abortion survivor Gianna Jessen, they are not arguements to be countered. They are people. They will build up the culture of life.

beautiful. I, too, am living with a blessing that ocurred because of a rape. My 15 year old son was adopted from the hospital. His wonderful birthmother chose to carry our son rather than abort after a violent rape. Her fiancee was not that sure and in deferrence to his feeling chose adoption. He blessed our lives in amazing ways and was the first of our 11 adoptions. thanks for sharing!

Thanks Mark. As I type this right now, that little boy is sitting on my lap holding his 7 week old brother playing “The little pigs” with his toes.

The culture of life is everything we are, and what we should fight for. It’s not just for the unborn, but rather for the unborn and every single life that child will have an impact on. I praise and personally thank each and every person who stands against the culture of death and will not accept any excuses.

Pax Christi.

Omg!! @GUY…. You are GREAT AND A HERO for loving that AMAZING LADY and her may I say “gift son”. Not many men would marry a single mother… especially if she is a mother because of rape. And SHE has shown unlimited self-sacrifice for her beliefs!!! Well done for both of you, a true inspiration!!! And congratulations on the new baby! ^_^

ABOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL.  HOW GREAT IS OUR GOD!

“Wow! Has that man got a woman for a wife!”

And vice versa!

Great story.

I needed to hear this today. I work in a secular hospital and care for women experiencing miscarriage and stillbirth.  Recently I cared for a lady in the ER who had a 15 week gestation baby that had died already. The Chaplain came by and saw me wash her and put her in a blanket and show her to her mom and discuss burial options.

He took that experience back to his Chaplain supervisors who explained to him that burial was only optional (not required) because it was “medically” only a “fetus” and couldnt live outside the womb. He felt his old fashioned prolife ideas must be misguided since these people all knew more than he did. I assured him his initial gut reactions that it was a baby were right and his opinion was no less valid than anyone else’s.

He said maybe our hospital was not for him…I informed him that most hospitals that arent Catholic are like ours. I suggested he consider working in a Catholic hospital in the future.  How deflating that Chaplains would reassure their students that 15 weekers are only fetuses who have no value. If you hear a banging sound, it is me hitting mu head against a wall

It so great!! God has planned.God Bless..

Thank you for that.  My son is the product not of rape but of drunken, drugged revelry between an HIV positive mother and a question mark of a father.  Many people would say he should have been aborted.  He was not, and now he’s joined our family, is happy and completely healthy, and the world is unquestionably a better place because he’s in it.

A woman was raped and kept the child and some other man loved her—gee should it have been any other way? I’m watching Tess of the d’Ubervilles—Tess was raped, kept her child (which died an infant). Her father was ashamed of her so the baby did not get baptized before he died, and the priest wouldn’t give her child a Christian burial. Another man falls in love with her, and she tries to tell him her past, but is afraid to loose his love. She DOES when she tells the truth after they are married and he abandons her.
You can read the rest of the story—my point is, that although it is fiction, it more likely to happen than your pretty story—you just don’t hear about it. I know a lot of single mothers whose lovers disappeared when a child came into the scene, and I know couples with children who have not married. You just found a nice Catholic story. Big Deal!

@Anybody. The biggest difference between the stories you know of and the story I wrote above are this: When one follows the moral laws written on the human heart, no matter how hard and trying they may be, you get stories like this. Unfortunately, in this modernist liberal society, we’ve forgotten what morals are. There is no longer, an objective truth this day in age. We’ve removed what we’ve known to be true for centuries and replaced it with fleeting emotions and whimsical wants, and then throw our hands in the air because things just didn’t turn out how we wanted them to.

When one removes God from the equation, the remainder is soon to fall as well.

Unfortunately, in this modernist liberal society, we’ve forgotten what morals are. There is no longer, an objective truth this day in age. We’ve removed what we’ve known to be true for centuries and replaced it with fleeting emotions and whimsical wants, and then throw our hands in the air because things just didn’t turn out how we wanted them to.

When one removes God from the equation, the remainder is soon to fall as well.
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What has “modernist liberal society> have to do with this? You story would be uncommon in any Christian era. Liberalism got people to think outside the box of religious judgement of “fallen women” so that a story like yours can happen. It is now less scandalous for a woman not to be a virgin (if she was really raped) and to have a child out of wedlock. How did this suddenly become a “Catholic” story?

Anybody: have you ever heard of a young pregnant lady named Mary and her fiance Joseph?

enness: Duh! I haven’t heard of any since then. It’s just lucky Joseph cam along when he did, or her story wouldn’t have been known either. This tell you how rare it is. Of course, it took a Papal decree to make her “pure.” The had to do something to keep her from being mistaken for a temple prostitute.

Anybody,
You are angry because good came of evil? Or angry because someone dared to declare it so?
I, as a woman, am so tired of people telling me what I can and cannot handle. Should I get pregnant in unfortunate circumstances, you can bet I would keep that little person because my pain isn’t her fault. Her life doesn’t deserve to be ended because someone else hurt me. Oh wait, that already happened. And thank goodness. She’s a glorious little person who has brought amazing healing to our world of hurt. But most people would have said having her was too hard…

Babs:
I am not judging the woman for keeping her child, because the rape is not the child’s or the woman’s fault, as you say. I am angry because it became questionable as to whether she was “worthy” of being loved, even if she was not a virgin and not married. The man who loved and married her is an exception, and an example of what SHOULD be, not what usually is. It is a beautiful story, but why is it unusual? It’s implied that the man “forgave” the woman for being raped and keeping the child.
You shouldn’t be upset with me, but with the general attitude that makes the above story an example of grace—for the man.

I disagree with your interpretation. Women who are raped often struggle with feelings of worthiness. Meeting a man and then being venerable enough to allow him to love you is like swimming te English Channel. Possible, but so so difficult. I don’t think this guy ever thought he had to forgive her, but he may have had to prove he really saw her and she was lovable. A guy willing to do that is commendable. I know ther are sad stories out there, and bad people. It’s all the more reason to celebrate these stories!

Babs:
So the story has to do with the woman’s psyche? Yes, a woman’s recovery from a rape and the regaining of willing to “vulnerable” again, as you put it, is indeed a remarkable journey. But this is more like a Cinderella story—it is her union with the “prince” that raises her in society.
Besides—how do you know for sure that this particular woman experienced the same kind of depression and feelings of worthlessness that would have made her reject the love of men altogether?
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In any case, the story is posted here as an argument against abortion in the case of a rape. It is one “happily ever after” in a million of stories that have a large range of endings—from extremely happy, to OK and to very bad endings. She survived and learned to love again, but the story only makes her worthy because she chose not to abort and give up the child of the rape. For the purpose of this blog, she is just another poster child for the anti-abortion movement.

Let me start by saying I was responding to your comments. I have no idea how this particular woman felt, or what her husband had to do to express his genuine love for her.

Your objection seems to be that this story is being held up as and ideal that everyone should strive for, and you seem to be angry that no one is acknowledging the very real prejudice that can accompany a woman who has been raped. I disagree. I think this story is one of hope, not that she needed a prince to save her. That in making a choice to carry and raise this baby she allowed her baby to be a blessing upon her future spouse. This story is about the man finding a fuller existence in the parenting a child who was the product of rape. He finds he needs and loves this child. He is grateful to his wife for choosing this child. The child is a blessing. If anything I read it as the woman being the princess who saves the prince with her choices, not the other way around.

I don’t agree—she did not choose to keep her child for the sake of a possible future husband. Moreover, her story would not be on this post if the rape didn’t produce a child.
I guess I didn’t realize that enniss is right: the story is really a secular version of the Virgin Mary, who also kept her child and was loved by Joseph. Kind of puts the rapist in the role of God—doesn’t it?

Again, this note is about HIS gratitude toward her because of her choice. Of course she didn’t keep her baby for some mythical future husband. Often our choices have farther reaching consequences than we could imagine.

It doesn’t matter—it is the story of a virgin who had an unintended pregnancy, and a man who is good enough to accept her when she had another man’s child. I don’t knock the part of Joseph—he helped a young woman who would probably have been stoned—though I believe he never had relations with Mary before or after Jesus’ birth.
Single motherhood is not as much of a stigma as it was in Mary’s time, and it’s not unusual for a man to marry a single mother these days. This story is being used as an argument against abortion, even in the case of a rape. I don’t like it because it seems to make rape acceptable.

Anybody,

You have a terrible misunderstanding and rather elementary grasp on the entire point of what I wrote. This is not an argument against abortion because of a happy ending. This is an argument because that life that was allowed to live has completely transformed this world, and I promise it has effected you as well. Never, in anything that I wrote did I even remotely come across as supporting, condoning, or accepting that rape is okay. If you pulled that from what I wrote, then that is a gross misreading of the text and you would do better to reread and remove your preconceived notions and ideologies out of my intent.

The story posted here is not merely a statement against abortion in the case of rape. This is a statement against abortion in the case of everything. This is to show that the life that so many out there told my wife to abort, that little boy, is now changing hearts and lives across this nation, and bringing me more joy than I ever thought was possible.

So, you want to be pissed? Be pissed at the cynical and hateful world at which has stifled and all but snatched the life out of people like me. Who play and importance on “emotion” but never allow a man or woman to do what is right. Get mad at the society that does nothing more than push, promote, and parade the Culture of Death at every turn. Get mad at Hollywood, the mainstream media, and the guys who ruined it for everyone else. But don’t you dare get mad at me, you have no right, no ground, and no argument. Take your fight elsewhere.

Here is a story from another website:
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If we disallowed D&C’s and abortion, I wouldn’t be here. Literally. My mother had suffered two miscarriages before me. The second one nearly killed her.

I wouldn’t be here. She nearly died in a Catholic hospital because they kept declaring the fetus viable. My father had to move her to a different hospital, even though they weren’t even sure she would survive the transfer, since they were both sure she wouldn’t survive staying.

My mother is a staunch conservative, but she is, not surprisingly enough, a staunch advocate for pro-choice. She knows she could have died right there, and idiots would have declared her dead, while her fetus was “declared” alive. It wasn’t and never was viable.

I am a thankful recipient of a determined mother, and a father that didn’t let his wife die just because some juvenile religious idiot said he “thought” the miscarried fetus she had was viable.

Understand, this is why abortion legislation harms EVERYONE, trying to make a family or not. It’s bullshit. A man can get pills to counteract his sexual dysfunction, and no one says a word. A woman tries to keep from dying when she has a bad pregnancy? She’s evil.

Women are so much more than broodmares to this society, but it seems far too many believe their daughters, wives and friends are nothing more than broodmares when you introduce this legislation.</quote>

I did not put the name or site because it is not really my place to do so, as I did not ask permission. I just wanted you to know there are two sides to every story.

At least Mississippi voters have some intelligence.

http://www.thestatecolumn.com/mississippi/mississippi-election-results-voters-reject-personhood-amendment/

Blessed the man who held this woman’s hand and stood up for her son.
A modern day St. Joseph! Men of such integrity are hard to come by. God bless!