🌻Becky Copas-Chitty🌻

Christian, Mom, Midwestern Farmer, Former Teacher, Friend...life is good!

[🌻Becky Copas-Chitty🌻 @beckychitty]

A thoughtful consideration from someone who understands first-hand that killing a baby will never be the answer to protecting a woman’s mental health or erasing the trauma of rape.

[Robin Atkins @TruthAgape]

I am truly over the abortion and rape narratives. Let me break this down for you.

Rape is an abomination. I was molested as a child and raped twice as a teen. I am intimately acquainted with the horrors of rape.

Recovery from the trauma of rape requires resiliency, social supports, and often counseling.

Abortion does absolutely nothing to treat the trauma of rape. It doesn't prevent rape. It doesn't stop rape. It doesn't cure rape. It doesn't make the rape disappear for the victim.

The only links between abortion and rape are:

1) Abortion punishes the woman's reproductive system for reacting to stimuli and a woman's child for existing.

2) Rapists use abortion in an attempt to erase what they see as "evidence" of their crimes.

If you are out here claiming women need abortion because of rape, you are lying to them. Abortion will do nothing to resolve the rape. It will dismantle their reproductive system and kill their child, but the trauma of the rape will remain.

You are also harming the secondary victims of rape, the children born after being conceived via rape. You are placing the trauma caused by a man unto them as if they are the rapist. You are defining them by the actions of a rapist. You are suggesting they deserve death because of what a rapist did.

Now, I am not suggesting complications during pregnancy can never be traumatic. They absolutely can. My hyperemesis in my 3rd pregnancy was extremely traumatic. It nearly caused me to have a mental breakdown. I considered suicide. My son is now 14 and worth every second of pain I went through. I would do it all again to have him in my life.

There need to be more supports for women experiencing trauma during pregnancy. Abortion doesn't support women. It undoes them and abandons them.

Abortion is not a mental health treatment. It will not cure trauma caused by complications during pregnancy. At best, it will avoid processing and healing of trauma while possibly adding additional trauma due to the death of a child.

Post-traumatic growth never requires the harm of another victim to bring about healing and recovery.

[Levi Chitty @1CHITTYBANGBANG]

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[🌻Becky Copas-Chitty🌻 @beckychitty]

@Zinkfarms How cool!

[🌻Becky Copas-Chitty🌻 @beckychitty]

@sf28430 Lifting you in prayer as you grieve this incredible loss in your family. Your testimony will be what gives others strength in their loss one day. The world needs people who understand to walk along side them. I’ve been there on both sides. God’s blessings and comfort.

[🌻Becky Copas-Chitty🌻 @beckychitty]

@jthomsonPHIL They suck…until they don’t!!! 😉

[🌻Becky Copas-Chitty🌻 @beckychitty]

@ErnHolbert Took one too, but had to work ground first!

[🌻Becky Copas-Chitty🌻 @beckychitty]

@PamSmithDTN @BradPeel3 What a touching gesture to honor your special friendship! I was just clearing a few voicemails yesterday and ran across a couple from Brad. I just can’t bring myself to erase them.

[🌻Becky Copas-Chitty🌻 @beckychitty]

@apasztor82 I’ve still got the Pioneer one that my late husband always wore. It sure came in handy during lambing season.

[🌻Becky Copas-Chitty🌻 @beckychitty]

@no1_real_man I know of about 12 people (including myself) who were vaccinated and still got it.

[🌻Becky Copas-Chitty🌻 @beckychitty]

@Kimbrellfarms06 As a former teacher in a rural area, YES, they'll make it. I encouraged them to bring their toy tractors for recess and I brought in my husband's farm magazines and papers for free reading. Their journal entries were all about their desire to be working.

[🌻Becky Copas-Chitty🌻 @beckychitty]

@BeckyBorron Merry Christmas, Becky!

[🌻Becky Copas-Chitty🌻 @beckychitty]

@Deere_Salesman Three generations have been blessed by ours. The little boy in this picture is now 27 and it's still the most appreciated tractor in the shed.

[🌻Becky Copas-Chitty🌻 @beckychitty]

@74Booger Same here… moisture tested at 9.4… it’s been slow going to get them to feed. 🤦🏼‍♀️

[🌻Becky Copas-Chitty🌻 @beckychitty]

@BeckyBorron @ChromeCattleCo Yea!!! 🥂 Congratulations!

[🌻Becky Copas-Chitty🌻 @beckychitty]

@Farmlvngirl He did the same for me. He was bright, funny, and even though he’d want you to think he was a tough nut to crack, he showed true compassion and friendship when I needed it most. He will be missed. I’m so happy that he will be once again reunited with his loving wife.

[🌻Becky Copas-Chitty🌻 @beckychitty]

@texan40 Some days we are blessed to be the ones giving comfort, other days we are the ones being comforted. Life is beautifully reciprocal that way.

[🌻Becky Copas-Chitty🌻 @beckychitty]

@plowwife 🙋🏼‍♀️ perhaps we should start a club!

[🌻Becky Copas-Chitty🌻 @beckychitty]

@Tami28937663 Ribeye for me

[🌻Becky Copas-Chitty🌻 @beckychitty]

@Justacowpoke I have found that you often look foolish doing it and the truth eventually comes out in the end if you are patient enough to wait for it.