Meet Gianna Jessen; this beautiful 19 year old young woman (photo and bio) is a singer and lecturer. She is remarkable because she has cerebral palsy, a fact that astonishes many who attend her concerts. However at the end of the concert they respond in stunned silence – I dare say they are “astonished exceedingly” – when Gianna announces that she is an abortion survivor!
In testimony before a subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee in 1996, Gianna said “Death did not prevail over me ... and I am so Thankful!! (full testimony)
Other abortion survivors aren’t as lucky. Ana Rosa Rodriguez’s right arm was torn off in the process of an unsuccessful abortion in 1991.
Ximena Renaerts was “delivered” into a plastic pot and placed on a stainless-steel counter with other “dead” fetuses – even though she was “moving, gasping, (and) crying weakly.” For over an hour she refused to die, and was finally transported to a hospital. But Ximena had suffered sever loss of body heat which caused extensive brain damage.
Then there was Baby Hope. Hope’s mother was having an abortion but went into premature labor. At 22 weeks, Hope was not expected to live – although some fetuses have survived at 21 weeks.
Knowing that no effort would be made to save Hope, a nurse asked to cradle her until she died. “I wanted her to feel that she was wanted.” Hope “sucked on her lower lip, opened and closed her eyes and moved her arms and legs” – for three hours!
Aside from the horrors of abortion itself, of being left to die on an ice-cold counter moments after coming into this world – or of being ripped apart moments before – other questions arise.
- Did Ana Rosa feel pain as the “Doctor” pulled her arm off?
- Did Ximena suffer as she was left to shiver for over an an hour?
- Did anyone tell these mothers that their babies might suffer excruciating pain as their limbs are ripped from their bodies?
- Were any of these mothers told that being injected with saline solution – that makes the body of the unborn baby shrivel up and die – produces an agonizing burning sensation?
- Does an infant’s pain ever cross the abortionists mind?
- Is she even told that the arms and legs are of her baby are pulled off and removed from her uterus one at time?
- Can a mother really make an informed decision without this knowledge?
Representative Chris Smith (R-NJ) doesn’t think so. He has reintroduced a bill – defeated last year mostly along party lines (guess which party voted against it) – requiring abortionists to do two things.
First they must inform their patients of the medical evidence that the unborn child feels pain. And second, if the “mother” still chooses to proceed with the abortion, to offer her anesthesia for her unborn child.
Last year, this bill went down to defeat.
Why, I’ve been asked, would anyone deny the most helpless of our society this modicum of human compassion?
Because, to admit that an unborn child feels pain is to admit that unborn is a child. The pro-abortion lobby hinges its arguments on the fetus being a “lump of cells”, a growth to be removed. To make the mother comfortable is fine, but never the lump of cells, the tumor… the fetus.
The Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act has 107 co-sponsors in the House (H.R. 3442) and 29 in the Senate (S. 356).
Have your Congressman (Click here) and Senators (Click here) signed on to co-sponsor these bills? Now would be a good time to ask them to join – or thank them if they already have – this effort by millions of freeborn Americans to help our most helpless!
Quote of the Day
Congressman Joe Pitts (R- PA) offered an amendment to SCHIP that would include an unborn child if the pregnant mother did not have insurance. The Democrats were appalled and voted it down. Illegal alien kids are in the program, but those still in the womb are not seen as human by Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her liberal army in Congress — William Murray, Aug 3, 2007