[Gianna Jessen claims to be the survivor of a failed saline abortion that her teenage single mother got when she was 7 months pregnant.]
She [Jessen] also remembers a tremendous fear of fire. "I think that was the result of what had happened," she says. "A saline injection abortion effectively burns you in your mother's womb."
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"My mother made a decision that she thought affected only her, and yet every day I bear the result of that decision through my cerebral palsy," she says. "I'm not saying that in condemnation, but in truth.
"It's more comfortable for people to think of abortion as a political decision, or a right. But I am not a right. I am a human being. I am the reality. Gently I put the question, if abortion is about women's rights, then where were mine? There was no radical feminist screaming for my rights on that day."
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Hitler was also planned to be aborted.
No, not Alois, not Klara. ADOLF Hitler.
When you say, "You aborted the next curer of cancer," you must also realise you could be saying, "You aborted the next Führer of Nazi Germany."
7 months is after the legal limit for abortions which, in many jurisdictions, is 24 weeks or earlier. Unless there is a threat to the physical or mental health of the mother, an abortion in the third trimester is an extremely rare occurrence. Gianna Jessen is wrong to extend her case to all abortions; even if what she says is true, her case would not have happened in most jurisdictions.
I'm not saying this is bullshit, but at the very least the author is incompetent.
"From the very beginning, Miss Jessen survived in spite of herself. Her mother, Tina, a 17-year-old single woman, decided to have an abortion by saline injection when she was seven-and-a-half months pregnant (there is no legal time limit for abortion in America) ."
The bold, not so much.
"Her biological mother has remarried and now lives in Southern California, and although she has seen her daughter on television, Miss Jessen has never contacted her."
Wat.
I think this is supposed to say "mother" rather than "daughter" but we're to believe her biological mother is an actress on tv ?
This story stinks just a little too much.
Nobody can remember when they were a baby let alone a fetus! If anything's a-flame, it's Gianna's pants.
I get the impression that Gianna, who has Cerebral Palsy, was adopted by a nutty frummer lady & is basically parroting what her adoptive mom told her. I think Adoptive mom saw a "Lie For Jeebus/Anti-Abortion" scheme in her kid & the latter swallowed it hook-line-and-sinker.
She's like Marjoe Gortner except Marjoe didn't really believe any of that clap-trap and renounced all that frummer crap. In fact, I think he's an atheist.
@ SpukiKitty
One does not need a conscious memory in order to develop a fear.
Who the f**k does an abortion at 7 months? 7 weeks is more normal, for crikey's sake! At 7 months it's a premature delivery, not an abortion.
I hardly remember anything from my first three years AFTER birth.
How was your brain damaged from a saline injection into the womb? Your cerebral palsy might have happened during birth, perhaps because your mother was only 17, her body might not have been developed enough to give birth.
Women have rights because women have been fighting for them, for hundreds of years. Fetuses don't have rights because they can't fight. Children (post-birth, that is) have rights because people have been fighting for their rights.
Judging by the frequent instances of abortion clinic harassment, there might well have been a radical anti-feminist screaming for your rights on that day.
Uh. Most everyone has a real fear of fire. This is some weird fallacious speculation.
If the woman sought an abortion at seven months when she was 17 it would have been because she was unable to get one earlier on-- since she apparently lived in the American south presumably services must not have been readily available-- or she didn't have access to health care or a health complication developed. This only indicates a need for safe legal abortion and access to proper health care and sex education.
This woman claims she is all about educating people, but she's obviously full of anti-abortion bias and misinformation. I wonder what she thinks of the women who die because they are denied an abortion or die from an illegal abortion or after trying to self abort. Wonder what she thinks of the women who become pregnant due to rape. Wonder what she'd say if she had an unwanted pregnancy herself.
There's pretty much no chance that her fear of fire developed from an attempted abortion (I think we're all afraid of that, with maybe a handful of exceptions like the screamapillar).
That said, this is actually a pretty tragic story *if true*. You don't usually get an abortion at 7 months because you want one in most jurisdictions. That's pretty much reserved for cases where the mother's life is in danger, for the obvious reason that a fetus at that point is conscious in essentially the same way that a newborn is. There's literally nothing here that's not awful. Her mother would probably have been forced into the decision by circumstances presenting a serious risk of death.
it seems far fetched to believe that if someone tried to abort their baby, and it didn't take but just damaged them, that they wouldn't give it another shot. it seems even more far fetched that that person would tell their kid that they tried to abort them.
A seven month pregnancy is obvious, as would be the fact that any attempt at abortion had failed. If that had happened, both her mother and provider would have know immediately and performed another procedure, which, incidentally wouldn't have been happening in the first place unless there were medical necessity. So, she's lying.
And WTF is up with the Telegraph reporting that there's no time limit for abortion in America?
@ TheReasonator
Take a biology class.
I hate arguing with the results of failed or a refusal from a strongly advised abortion because they always end up saying when you argue pro-choice 'you would have killed me.' When he/she may have had a a particullarilly
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