In this type of abortion, the caustic, toxic saline solution slowly poisons the baby while burning her tender skin. Gianna was supposed to be delivered dead the following day. But, Gianna was born alive, though small, premature, badly burned and injured from the saline abortion. A nurse rushed her from the abortion clinic to a hospital, where she spent the first three months of her infancy.
She was then placed with a foster family specializing in high-risk babies. The doctors said Gianna would never be able to sit up by herself, let alone walk, run, jump, and play like "normal" children.
The abortion procedure had deprived her brain of oxygen and had left her with severe cerebal palsy. But at the age of three she was defying the medical experts and walking with the aid of a walker. She has undergone a number of painful operations that have enhanced her muscular control and coordination.
When interviewed in , when she was 14 years old, Gianna said "I still limp," the effervescent teenager said, "but I can walk, run, dance, and jump. Maybe not as well as you or a lot of other people, but I do O. In an interview, Gianna told The New American that she has added rock climbing to her repertoire of athletic skills. Since she discovered the truth about her birth, Gianna has been a highly effective champion for the pro-life cause.
With an angelic singing voice, a winning personality, and a uniquely compelling and heroic survival story, she has dramatically impacted audiences worldwide. More on this at the end of the story. I think it's important because this adds one more aspect to the conversation. Gianna's story is unlike any other story. She's been telling her life story to audiences since she was 14 years old.
I was way too young and I had terrible hair," she said, laughing. She just turned 40 in early April. Since then, I've traveled all over the world and met all kinds of different people. Jessen has cerebral palsy, which she traces directly to the lack of oxygen to her brain during the failed abortion, she said. Besides mobility and balance issues, she attributes some cognitive problems to her disability.
I signed up for an extraordinary life. A lot of times we forget that so much wisdom can be gained through a struggle, not by eliminating them. I'm not preparing for wheelchairs. I'm not preparing to go downhill.
That's so crucial in life," she said. Her disabilities give her a lot of perspective, and she uses them to illustrate that to audiences. Can you stop complaining? And I'm limping because I survived an abortion and I wouldn't be disabled otherwise," she said. The abortionist wasn't on duty when I came into the world. Had he been there, he would have ended my life with strangulation, suffocation or leaving me there to die, which was considered perfectly legal up until 5 August in the United States.
Now, a child who has survived an abortion must receive proper medical care. The abortionist had to sign my birth certificate.
He had to acknowledge a life that just hours before he was trying to end. The only person even remotely concerned about my well-being was the nurse. She called an ambulance and had me transferred to a hospital. I was placed in an incubator weighing two pounds. They didn't expect me to live. After several months they decided that I had a tremendous will to live.
I was placed in the foster care system and at 17 months was diagnosed with cerebral palsy due to lack of oxygen while I was being burnt alive for 18 hours in my mother's womb. I was 32lbs, couldn't move and they said that I would just be a vegetable for the rest of my life. My foster mother, Penny, decided that despite what the doctors were saying, she would work with me. She did my physical therapy three times a day and I began to hold up my head, sit up and crawl. Eventually, at the age of three-and-a-half, I was able to walk with a walker and leg braces.
That was the age at which Penny's daughter, Diana, who was then in her thirties, adopted me. I'm 28 now and work as a musician in Nashville, Tennessee. I still walk with a limp and fall occasionally. But I've just completed my first marathon and will be running the London Marathon next April to raise funds for children with cerebral palsy.
Diana told me about my past. I had always had this sense that there was more to my life story. I was always asking her why I had cerebral palsy.
You would have thought that I would be fine with her answers because I was a premature baby or that I had experienced a traumatic birth. But when I asked her again when I was 12 she asked me whether I really wanted to know and I said yes. When she explained it to me, my reply was typical of a year-old.
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