I wrestled with how something so horrible — my conception in rape — could happen to my birth mother. AdvertisementWe live in a culture that says if you’re unplanned, you will be unwanted and unloved. It’s hard to combat the poisonous propaganda that devalues human life over circumstances none of us can control. Decades later, I’m forever grateful that the woman who gave me life didn’t remove me from it. So is every unplanned life the world is too quick to write off.