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Gianna Jessen was aborted...almost... She lived to tell about it!
Constitutional Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee ^ | Gianna Jessen

Posted on 01/21/2004 2:35:43 AM PST by tame

I have posted the following bio of Gianna Jessen's survival because, although it is not a "new" story, recent events indicated it is a crucial story to revisit...MAY WE NEVER FORGET!

Gianna Jessen

Testimony of abortion survivor Gianna Jessen before the Constitution Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee on April 22, 1996:

"My name is Gianna Jessen. I am 19 years of age. I am originally from California, but now reside in Franklin, Tennessee. I am adopted. I have cerebral palsy. My biological mother was 17 years old and seven and one-half months pregnant when she made the decision to have a saline abortion. I am the person she aborted. I lived instead of died.

Fortunately for me the abortionist was not in the clinic when I arrived alive, instead of dead, at 6:00 a.m. on the morning of April 6, 1977. I was early, my death was not expected to be seen until about 9 a.m., when he would probably be arriving for his office hours. I am sure I would not be here today if the abortionist would have been in the clinic as his job is to take life, not sustain it. Some have said I am a "botched abortion", a result of a job not well done.

There were many witnesses to my entry into this world. My biological mother and other young girls in the clinic, who also awaited the death of their babies, were the first to greet me. I am told this was a hysterical moment. Next was a staff nurse who apparently called emergency medical services and had me transferred to a hospital.

I remained in the hospital for almost three months. There was not much hope for me in the beginning. I weighed only two pounds. Today, babies smaller than I was have survived.

A doctor once said I had a great will to live and that I fought for my life. I eventually was able to leave the hospital and be placed in foster care. I was diagnosed with cerebral palsy as a result of the abortion.

My foster mother was told that it was doubtful that I would ever crawl or walk. I could not sit up independently. Through the prayers and dedication of my foster mother, and later many other people, I eventually learned to sit up, crawl, then stand. I walked with leg braces and a walker shortly before I turned age four. I was legally adopted by my foster mother's daughter, Diana De Paul, a few months after I began to walk. The Department of Social Services would not release me any earlier for adoption.

I have continued in physical therapy for my disability, and after a total of four surgeries, I can now walk without assistance. It is not always easy. Sometimes I fall, but I have learned how to fall gracefully after falling 19 years.

I am happy to be alive. I almost died. Every day I thank God for life. I do not consider myself a by-product of conception, a clump of tissue, or any other of the titles given to a child in the womb. I do not consider any person conceived to be any of those things.

I have met other survivors of abortion. They are all thankful for life. Only a few months ago I met another saline abortion survivor. Her name is Sarah. She is two years old. Sarah also has cerebral palsy, but her diagnosis is not good. She is blind and has severe seizures. The abortionist, besides injecting the mother with saline, also injects the baby victims. Sarah was injected in the head. I saw the place on her head where this was done. When I speak, I speak not only for myself, but for the other survivors, like Sarah, and also for those who cannot yet speak ...

Today, a baby is a baby when convenient. It is tissue or otherwise when the time is not right. A baby is a baby when miscarriage takes place at two, three, four months. A baby is called a tissue or clumps of cells when an abortion takes place at two, three, four months. Why is that? I see no difference. What are you seeing? Many close there eyes...

The best thing I can show you to defend life is my life. It has been a great gift. Killing is not the answer to any question or situation. Show me how it is the answer.

There is a quote which is etched into the high ceilings of one of our state's capitol buildings. The quote says, "Whatever is morally wrong, is not politically correct." Abortion is morally wrong. Our country is shedding the blood of the innocent. America is killing its future.

All life is valuable. All life is a gift from our Creator. We must receive and cherish the gifts we are given. We must honor the right to life."


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: abortion; abortionsurvivor; gianna; giannajessen; jessen; survivor
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To: exit82
Tame--thank you for posting this. I've had the honor of meeting and talking with Gianna on two occassions, when she was the speaker at a fundraising banquet for a local crisi pregnancy center. She is a well poised, delightful young woman.

I look forward to meeting her someday!

61 posted on 01/21/2004 8:45:28 PM PST by tame (Are you willing to do for the truth what leftists are willing to do for a lie?)
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To: buffyt
What I really don't get is the Liberals' disapproval of Death Penalty... of serial murderers... yet their approval of the murder of millions of innocent children, waiting to be born.

Leftists care more for the guilty than they do for the innocent.

62 posted on 01/21/2004 8:47:00 PM PST by tame (Are you willing to do for the truth what leftists are willing to do for a lie?)
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To: tom h
And may all of us remember what the head of NOW called Gianna when she began going public -- she called her a "freak."

That's unbelievable! Can you link me to a quote of that?

63 posted on 01/21/2004 8:51:55 PM PST by tame (Are you willing to do for the truth what leftists are willing to do for a lie?)
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To: Aquinasfan
Hi, there! Long time no see. I still owe you some Norm Geisler tapes. Sorry 'bout that :o(
64 posted on 01/21/2004 8:53:32 PM PST by tame (Are you willing to do for the truth what leftists are willing to do for a lie?)
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To: FireTrack; All
I wish Bill O'Rielly would ask this lady to come on his show!

Please write and ask him to. Maybe she's been on there before. Anybody know?

65 posted on 01/21/2004 8:56:17 PM PST by tame (Are you willing to do for the truth what leftists are willing to do for a lie?)
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To: eleni121
An inspiring person...thanks for posting. Years ago I read a letter to an editor in which the writer thanked her birth mother for "allowing her to live" and letting her be adopted even though her mother had been raped. She was now a wife and mother of two.

Powerful!

66 posted on 01/21/2004 8:58:00 PM PST by tame (Are you willing to do for the truth what leftists are willing to do for a lie?)
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To: tame
Good evening, night owl. :)

If you hear of her being on O'Reilly, I'd appreciate your letting us on this thread know.
67 posted on 01/21/2004 8:59:17 PM PST by JudyB1938 (God has such a sense of humor. He moved me to CLINTON, Arkansas.)
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To: Eaker
My priviledge!
68 posted on 01/21/2004 9:00:19 PM PST by tame (Are you willing to do for the truth what leftists are willing to do for a lie?)
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To: agrace
Now I just looked at your profile. :) Dr. Norman Geisler spoke at my church last year, gave a talk on the origins of evil. It was excellent.

Wow! I have tapes of Geisler's lectures on the origens of evil. You're right!

69 posted on 01/21/2004 9:03:02 PM PST by tame (Are you willing to do for the truth what leftists are willing to do for a lie?)
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To: Federalist 78
Thanks for the posts!
70 posted on 01/21/2004 9:03:40 PM PST by tame (Are you willing to do for the truth what leftists are willing to do for a lie?)
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To: tame
I did!
71 posted on 01/21/2004 10:54:30 PM PST by FireTrack
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To: tame
See post 59 or try google.
72 posted on 01/22/2004 5:04:47 AM PST by tom h
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To: JudyB1938
Good evening, night owl. :)

Good evening :o) Read those books, now. Okay?

73 posted on 01/22/2004 6:16:31 AM PST by tame (Are you willing to do for the truth what leftists are willing to do for a lie?)
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To: Victoria Delsoul
How are you? Thought you'd be interested in this :o)
74 posted on 01/23/2004 10:57:08 PM PST by tame (Are you willing to do for the truth what leftists are willing to do for a lie?)
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To: kidd

I feel the same way i got the chance to talk to her one on one after a pro-life youth rally she spoke at in our town just a month ago! She affected me alot i wanted to get an abortion but when i heard her speak and got to talk to her it was so awsome! i now canceled my abortion appointment and i am keeping my little boy! i should have never even thought of that at all! i will make it!


75 posted on 03/12/2005 6:51:54 PM PST by gracefulangel
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