I am valuable: Republican Senate candidate reveals she was conceived by rape

A Republican Senate candidate has been publicly sharing her personal story as a child conceived in rape as the issue of abortion takes center stage following the release of a draft U.S. Supreme Court majority opinion overturning Roe v. Wade.

Kathy Barnette, a candidate for the Republican nomination for the open Senate seat in Pennsylvania, posted a video on her Twitter page Tuesday titled “It wasn’t a choice. It was a life.” A tweet accompanying the video read: “I’m the byproduct of rape. My mother was 11 when I was conceived. In the world the Left desires, I would have never been born.”

In the video, Barnette recalled how after seeing her birth certificate for the first time, she discovered that her mother was just 12 years old when she gave birth to her. “That just really struck a chord in me because I realized just how young my mother was when something so horrible had visited upon her,” an emotional Barnette said. “Even to this day, it’s a very hard word to say but my mother was raped.”

Barnette added that her father, who raped her mother, was 21 years old. Barnette’s mother, Mamie Jo, appears in the ad and described her experience as “devastating” before explaining that her mother told her, “you’re pregnant, so we’re going to get through this.”… (Excerpt from The Christian Post)