Image Credit: YouTube / Live Action screenshot 
Pennsylvania Senate candidate Kathy Barnette (R) sat down with pro-life organization Live Action to explain her gratitude after her mother rejected abortion when she was raped at the age of 11.
The US Army veteran conducted the interview alongside her mother in February 2020, two years before she made a splash on the national stage with a powerful performance during the 2022 Republican primary debate.
“As a child, I knew no different. I was loved, and I felt loved. It gave me a greater appreciation for my mother,” she said in the interview. “It helped me to forgive a lot of the mistakes someone at that age, having gone through such trauma, would have made in their own parenting. But it definitely made me become very adamant about the sanctity of life, of all life, regardless of their conception…. My life has purpose.”
In the interview, Barnette expressed gratefulness that her mother didn’t choose to abort her, and argued babies conceived of rape deserve an equal right to life as other babies.
“Regardless of… how the child was conceived, that child deserves a chance. And if I had made that choice, where would I be right now without my daughter?” her mother said.
“The trauma has already been inflicted…. Aborting me would not have eased a trauma that my mother suffered. Aborting me would not have allowed me to be in a place today where I can now take care of my mother,” Barnette added.
Barnette’s testimonial is important to revisit as the Supreme Court weighs ending Roe v. Wade federal abortion protections.
Meanwhile, Wikipedia appears to have taken down a page dedicated to Barnette on Tuesday, just one week before the Pennsylvania primary election on May 17.
When they cancel me, they’re cancelling you.
Wikipedia just pulled my page down with a week left to go in the election.
No one said this would be easy. They don’t like giving up power.
They forget that the true power is with the people, though. pic.twitter.com/jKN6drK6sX
— Kathy Barnette (@Kathy4Truth) May 10, 2022
