AUBURN, Alabama – Molly Anne Dutton made headlines on Saturday when she was crowned Auburn's 100th homecoming queen.

This week, the 22-year-old horticulture student is making headlines, again; but it’s the story behind her unique "Light up LIFE" platform that’s getting all the attention this time around.

Molly Anne Dutton during the Auburn University homecoming parade, before she was crowned Miss Homecoming. (AL.com file photo)

Dutton is the daughter of a young, married woman who survived a sexual assault in California and became pregnant, according to a news release this week from "Light up LIFE," the horticulture club-based group that ran her campaign. To compound matters, the woman’s husband gave her an ultimatum: Abort the baby or get a divorce.

Rather than having the abortion, Dutton's mom chose to move to Alabama and carry the baby to term. She worked with Lifeline Children's Services, a Christian adoption group in Birmingham, Ala., to place the child in a home.

Dutton’s adoptive parents served on the agency’s board at the time and when they heard about the situation, they decided to adopt the baby who would be homecoming queen, according to the release.

Dutton's Miss Homecoming “Light up LIFE” Miss Homecoming campaign included YouTube videos, green-and-yellow T-Shirts and literature that placed an emphasis on educating young women about the options available during crisis pregnancies.

“Because that resource was made available to my mother, she decided to give birth to me,” Dutton says in a campaign video, “Light up LIFE with Molly Anne Dutton. “And here I am talking to you guys 22 years later.”

Spelling of Anne corrected in the opening sentence and closing paragraph at 7:20 p.m.