http://www.religionnews.com/index.php?/rnstext/crisis_pregnancy_group_reflects_jewish_divide_on_abortion1/

June 14, 2011

By Debra Rubin

SILVER SPRING, Md. (RNS) Saraleah was 19 and a part-time student when she discovered she was pregnant. She didn’t know how it could have happened—until she flashed back to a party nine weeks earlier where she was given a drink, realized it was vodka and then passed out.

Saraleah had been raped.

“i was in shock and felt like my life was over,” she wrote in an email, asking that her full name not be used. “I was very scared because i had nothing and was trying to figure out how i was going to support myself AND the baby.”

Abortion was never an option, she said. She looked into adoption, but ultimately decided she wanted to prove herself as a mother. Her rabbi’s wife referred her to In Shifra’s Arms, a suburban Washington, D.C., nonprofit that provides assistance to pregnant Jewish women in crisis.