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Planned Parenthood Celebration Jolted by Abortion Survivor    TED HARVEY She sings the anthem to applause, then her secret is revealed to stunned silence. Gianna Jessen I want to share with you an awesome experience I had in the Colorado House of Representatives on May 8. It is a humbling experience to look back and realize that God used me to play a role in His divine orchestration. I was leaving the House chambers for the weekend when our Democrat speaker of the House announced that the coming Monday would be the final day of this year's General Assembly. He...

PERTH, United Kingdom, March 21, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A young woman who gave birth to a daughter, after a failed abortion left one of her twins still alive, is suing for damages against the hospital that carried out the procedure. Stacy Dow, 21 years old, discovered she was pregnant with twins when she was 16, reported the BBC yesterday. She decided to abort her babies. Following the abortion she was given a contraceptive injection and told to expect weight gain and irregular menstruation as side effects. When she went to her doctor months later, she found one child had survived...

(AgapePress) - "This is the White House calling. You need to call us." These are the words Gianna Jessen heard as she listened to her voicemail.Eager to the return the call she assumed was a joke, she dialed the number. The voice on the other end gave her news she never expected to hear: "You need to get on a plane within two days because you're going to meet the president in Pittsburgh. He's signing the bill that you testified in favor of a couple of years ago."Reality set in as Jessen arrived in Pittsburgh and was led into...

A mother is hoping to win £250,000 in compensation after her twin daughter survived an abortion four years ago. Stacy Dow, from Perth, was 16 when she found out she was pregnant with twins and decided to have an abortion. However, when she returned to her doctor after 33 weeks she was told one of the babies had survived. Tayside University Hospitals NHS Trust said there had been nothing to suggest a child had survived and plans to challenge the claim in court next year. The surviving baby, Jayde, is now four. Her mother is claiming the damages for the...

PERTH, December 7, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A Scottish court has set a date for the case of a woman seeking damages from her abortionist for failing to kill both of her twin daughters. Stacy Dow is suing the Perth Royal Infirmary after the hospital sent her home still pregnant with the surviving child, Jayde, now four. “I have got a child now that I wasn't planning to have and I believe the hospital should take some responsibility for that,” Dow told a London newspaper in April. Perth Sheriff Court set has set March 2006 as the date for the case...

A 28-year-old abortion survivor was prohibited from speaking at an Irish college, which claimed the insurance premium was insufficient. Gianna Jessen survived a saline abortion at the seven-month gestation stage period. As a result, she suffers from cerebral palsy, a disorder that is caused by flawed development of or damage to areas of the brain that control a person’s ability to move and stand or sit upright. Jessen considers the disorder a gift. She has traveled the world sharing her story and being living evidence that abortion takes a human life. Ultrasound, a pro-life student network arranged multiple speaking engagements...

Lansing, MI (LifeNews.com) -- Gianna Jessen is a 28 year-old woman who is interested in real estate, singing and song writing. But she almost never have the chance to engage in those interests because her mother had an abortion. Somehow, despite spending 18 hours in a chemical solution intended to kill her, Jessen survived. As Jessen turned to Christianity, she says she's found forgiveness for her mother and the ability to deal with Cerebral Palsy -- something she calls a gift. "When you have the gift of cerebral palsy, you are destined to live an extraordinary life," Jessen told students...

Baby Boy Rowan Aborted into Toilet and SURVIVES   NOTE: The full story is embargoed until Monday, April 25, 2005.   Date of Incident: April 2, 2005   At nearly 23 gestational weeks old the little boy fought bravely when he was delivered alive as a result of an induction of labor abortion. As soon as she caught sight of her beautiful son, Rowan's mother experienced an epiphany. Here are excerpts from the testimony of what she saw after her child was delivered:   "His right leg moved. I screamed ... pants down, blood everywhere ... I pushed my pinkie...

British miracle baby survives 2-day abortion procedure; child 'defeated all the odds'Feb 17, 2005By Staff WASHINGTON (BP)--Sometimes an abortion does not produce a dead child. In a recently reported case from Great Britain, even multiple attempts at an abortion failed to do so. A baby boy who survived repeated efforts to kill him while he was in the womb is doing well as a 2-year-old, according to a report in a British medical journal. Physicians at Salford’s Hope Hospital, where the infant was treated after his birth 24 weeks into his mother’s pregnancy, believe he is the most prematurely...

A BABY survived at least three attempts to abort it from the womb and was born alive at 24 weeks old. The boy was delivered in hospital after his 24- year-old mother changed her mind about wanting the child after feeling it move on the way home from an abortion clinic. Although the clinic had told her an ultrasound scan had confirmed the child was dead, she went into labour that afternoon and the boy was born alive. Now two years old and healthy, he is the first long-term abortion survivor to have been born so prematurely. His remarkable entrance...

A BABY survived at least three attempts to abort it from the womb and was born alive at 24 weeks old. The boy was delivered in hospital after his 24- year-old mother changed her mind about wanting the child after feeling it move on the way home from an abortion clinic. Although the clinic had told her an ultrasound scan had confirmed the child was dead, she went into labour that afternoon and the boy was born alive. Now two years old and healthy, he is the first long-term abortion survivor to have been born so prematurely. His remarkable entrance...

A BABY survived at least three attempts to abort it from the womb and was born alive at 24 weeks old. The boy was delivered in hospital after his 24- year-old mother changed her mind about wanting the child after feeling it move on the way home from an abortion clinic. Although the clinic had told her an ultrasound scan had confirmed the child was dead, she went into labour that afternoon and the boy was born alive. Now two years old and healthy, he is the first long-term abortion survivor to have been born so prematurely. His remarkable entrance...

Attempted abortion survivors. These are people who survived an actual abortion attempt. In other words, the abortion failed to kill them. Twin abortion survivors. These are people whose twin was aborted but they themselves survived. Sibling abortion survivors. These are people born into families where a brother or sister was aborted. Put yourself in their places. What is it like to know that your own parent attempted to kill you before you were born? Or, why was your brother or sister aborted and you were not? These are the terrible issues which abortion survivors have faced and dealt with....

"Abortion survivor to tell story at rally" By AMY WHITE BEE STAFF WRITER Last Updated: January 15, 2005, 06:28:27 AM PST Gianna Jessen came into the world as a surprise. Her 17-year-old mother knew she was pregnant. She also knew she didn't want to be. She underwent an abortion procedure, having toxic saline solution injected into the womb during the third trimester.

Let me share this with you all, my adopted son is a abortion survivor, he is in the second grade and doing fine. He has a partially dead lung from being on a respirator so long. YOu see he was born at 23 weeks gestation. Many,would tell you that a child born that early or weighing what he did one pound, that he would be bound to a wheel chair and have all kinds of health problems, he has very few and no one would ever know how he started his life. He will soon be eight years old.

When The Unborn Doesn't Go Quietly To His ExecutionMichael Reagan Show2-28-98 Bob Edwards When the Unborn Doesn't Go Quietly to His ExecutionIt was a relatively calm day in my hospital's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. I and two other nurses were trying to have a conversation amid the customary sounds of ventilators and heart monitors. I was in mid-sentence when the shrill ring of the red emergency phone halted everything. "Come fast," the voice said urgently, "We need a neonatal nurse here STAT!" (that's immediately). Fear gripped my heart as I ran into the delivery room, but instantly I knew the...

Washington, D.C. More than 200 pro-life youth from across the country gathered in the nation's capital Monday to begin three days of prayer rallies and peaceful protests centered around the 30th anniversary of the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion during all nine months of pregnancy. "It's wrong to kill children in the womb. They are human beings, and they have souls that are very precious to God," said Therese Nazar, a teen from La Crosse, Wis. "They have a right to live." The group gathered on a public sidewalk across the street from one of the Planned...

Pictured here are Sarah Smith and her mother Betty. In 1970, Betty tried to abort Sarah in Los Angeles. At the time, Betty did not know she was pregnant with twins. One baby was aborted, but miraculously, Sarah survived. Sarah has forgiven her mother -- and for five years they traveled the world speaking together about the pain and suffering caused by abortion. Below is Sarah's story, followed by the speech she gave in Rome in 1996. Twins -- one aborted, one survives! Sarah tells her story . . . "Twenty-nine years ago, my mother decided to have an abortion....

Republican senators, seeking to pass a bill that will ban a practice that involves the killing of a child in the very act of birth, received some unexpected help from a perky 11-year-old, who once was a target of this brutal procedure. Donna Joy Watts, accompanied by her parents, Donald and Lori Watts, made a return trip to Capitol Hill this week to urge the Senate to pass the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, S.3, which was introduced by their senator, Rick Santorum, R-Pa. Six years ago, during a debate on a similar measure, the Watts and their daughter were unceremoniously...

Miracle aborted baby survives being dumped March 10 2003 at 06:08AM By Boyd Webb Born four months premature after his mother allegedly tried to abort him and then had him dumped, he still survived. With all the odds stacked against him, he clung desperately to life. The newborn baby was rushed to Pretoria Academic Hospital after he had been left for dead in the back of a car, allegedly by a woman employed at a local surgery. 'The man from the panelbeating shop dumped the bag on the ground in front of us' "I thought he was dead," said Inspector...