Would a woman keep a child born out of rape?

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I am talking about a novella by Roddy Doyle, the irish writer. It was the second story in his Barrytown Trilogy. A girl, who is raped by one of his married, middle-aged neigbhour in her half-conscious state, gets pregnant and decides to bear it. The focus of the story is not on any pain (though it there)but rather on being an expecting mother and the way her family deal with her (she doesn't tell the family who is the father; in fact she doesn't tell it to anybody.). I was perplexed on reading it; I didn't understand how a girl could get attached to an unborn child who is the product of a wrong. I know it is fiction but I do think that it reflects the reality to great extent. I am a man so I can't understand it, but after reading it, I did realize that to a woman, being a mother could be more important than being in love with its father or acceptable father, if you like. But I do really wish to get inside women's head to understand what goes in their minds with regard to their children. If you are a woman, then tell me what would you do in such a situation? Who would want to abort it, and who would want to keep it? Even killing an unborn child seems bad to me even though it may be a product of an assault, because after all, the child was not at all responsible for it. Then I think about bringing up. When a woman sees her child grow up, with a resembling the one who molested her, how would she react? Or bear it? It is such a strange thing, I can't even properly think about it.