Abortion survivor Gianna Jessen schools Obama on abortion
Posted on September 16, 2008
31 years ago, Gianna Jessen survived a saline abortion. She survived. Other infants are not so lucky.
Had she been born in Barack Obama’s America, would that still be the case? She doesn’t think so.
Shockingly (or perhaps not-so-shockingly), feminist blogs have been silent on this particular issue. How do they respond to someone like Gianna Jessen? It’s an indefensible position. And if you’d be willing to side with this bill just for the sake of protecting Roe v. Wade, it says a lot about what kind of person you are. Abortion is a sticky subject, but once the child is out of the womb and alive, there is no longer any argument. Period.
Alan Colmes took the idiot road on this one, saying that somehow, not wanting to allow infants who survive abortions to be treated so they can survive is not infanticide. It may possibly be the feeblest attempt at defending a poor position ever:
Smoooth, Colmes. Smooth.
Flashback: Gianna Jessen speaks to the House Judiciary Committee in 1996. Here are her remarks:
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.
Her remarks are as valid today as they were twelve years ago.
Cross-posted from Cassy’s blog.
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That’s gotta be as scary for Barak Obama as it was for Pat Schroeder: a fetus with attitude.
But Gianna was lucky. A nurse recognized her as a baby, not just a fetus ex-utero, and sent her to the NICU.
It is in the case of Ximenia Renearts that we more clearly see Obama’s attitude in action. Ximenia’s mother underwent an abortion, thought her fetus was dead, then showed up at a hospital in pain. The staff at the hospital elected to respect her choice, to refrain from further burdening her. They stuck the fetus in a bedpan. They left the fetus, cold and alone, in a closet. It wasn’t until another hospital employee mistook the fetus for a baby that care was sought.
Ximenia’s adoptive parents sued on her behalf, arguing that since she’d been born alive, she was a baby and entitled to care.
BC Minister of Health, Michelle Stewart, was dismissive of the issue of infants born live during abortions, commenting, “As you know, this Ministry is very much in favor of giving women choices about their reproductive health.” British Columbia’s Chief Coroner Larry Campbell included a letter in a report on such live births, and dismissed them as to be expected in abortion and therefore outside the purview of BC coroners, who only get involved if a death is “unexpected”.
This is the stand Obama took. That providing care for babies like Ximenia was too much of a burden on the mother’s choice.
If you’re okay with that — if you think that the wrongdoing was by the people who provided Ximenia with care, not by the ones who left her in a bedpan to die — then by all means, vote for Barak Obama.
As for Ximenia herself, she is too profoundly disabled to speak out. About anything. Which is lucky for Obama. One less fetus with attitude to challenge his assertion that the proper thing to do with them is stick them in a closet and wait for them to die.
I’ve got a reproductive choice for you- DON’T HAVE SEX!!
This stuff just tears me apart. I have a 2 year old son. He was my second pregnancy, but is my only child. I had a miscarriage the first time. It took years to get pregnant and my husband and I thought maybe we couldn’t have children. Due to my medical history, my doctor wanted to do an ultra sound at 12 weeks. This is the end of the first trimester. What I saw on that monitor was not a “fetus” or “clump of cells”. It was a baby with arms, legs, torso and a head. He was moving around- kicking and sucking his thumb. Until that point, I had always been somewhat ambiguous about abortion. I just didn’t really care. It was the image on that monitor that made me realize abortion is clearly, without a doubt, murder.
Isn’t he lucky that Roe vs Wade wasn’t law at the time of his own out-of-wedlock conception. Would his mother have considered terminating the life of her “clump of cells” had she been able to just walk into an abortion clinic?