Gianna Jessen Abortion Survivor

Gianna Jessen

Testimony of abortion survivor Gianna Jessen before the Constitution Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee on April 22, 1996.

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.

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There is nothing secret

“For there is nothing hid, which shall not be manifested; neither was anything kept secret, but that it should come abroad”(Mk. 4,22)

In one of English cities men laid a water pipe through a cemetery. Workers have unintentionally dug out some bones and skulls. The elderly person passed through a cemetery in the evening. Having come nearer to an open tomb of the rich lady who has died some tens years ago, he has suddenly noticed that the skull has moved, and the mouse has run out from it. The old man was frightened, but nevertheless has lifted a skull and, to the amazement, has noticed the long and thick pin into skull, with flat, as at nails, a head.

It seemed to Him it is suspicious, and he has declared to police, having told about sudden death of the rich lady and that her nephew became the successor of a manor. Policemen have gone to the nephew, have shown him this pin and have asked, whether he learns this pin. Having seen it, he has turned pale and, having come to the senses, has confessed that he has hammered this pin into the aunt’s head, when she slept to take hold of her manor. The secret has opened.

The Bible says: “For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil” (Ecc. 12:14). Secret – is that disappears from others that is known not to all; a secret is that isn't learned yet, isn't solved, didn't become still known or is still inaccessible to knowledge. If some secrets also are not opened here on the earth, they will be opened in eternity, in day of court.

No human wisdom could possess such knowledge of the future, “But there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets” and in advance informing about “what shall be in the latter days” (Dan. 2,28); and if these mysterious revelations remain incomprehensible for people, but He gives to some of them a wisdom (Dan. 5,11), an exclusive insight, because no secret is complicates them (Dan. 4,6).

“Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets” (Am. 3,7). “The secret of the LORD is with them that fear him; and he will shew them his covenant”(Ps. 25,14).

Drunkenness

“Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink (Is. 5,11).

Once the attention of passers-by has been involved by strange behavior of the person which with meter in a hand has approached to doors of pub and began to measure them.

«Eighty five centimeters of width and two meters of height», – he has told. Then, having turned back to people, he has explained: «this Door has only two meters of height and eighty five centimeters of width. In general, a small door. However I had a house and it has entirely passed through this door. I had an earth, but it has entered into it too. I had kind furniture; it has passed through this door. I had savings, and all I have left through this door. And it was not all! I had a good health, and here the doctor has told recently: “you have passed the health through a tavern door!”

When I was a young man, I had good reputation, and today I do not trusted by anybody. They speak about me: «He is the drunkard! » Thus, my honor has left through this door. Once I had a kind and sympathetic heart. I suffered, when I saw that the wife and children cry because of me. But since I began to enter into this door, I forced them to cry very often.

I had a conscience, and I understood what is fair and dishonest what is badly and good. But I spent on drink all my property. What did I do with the body, having poisoned it? Whether was I right, having ruined my life? Certainly not. I didn't obey a conscience voice; that is why both conscience and happiness have left through this door. I left a tavern with a cheerful song often, but I was unhappy in the deep of my heart».

After these words he went. People started talking: «It is right! He told true! » But they one after another entered into the same strange door.

Drunkenness is mother of all shameful deeds. Drunkenness is always angrily. “Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin” (Jn. 8:34).

P.Shatrov

About Drunkenness

“Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink”(Is. 5,22).

The young pair has married. They imagined a future as the continuous happiness, but the sin has undermined a root of this happiness. The husband began to seek hard liquor, and it grasped him more. He started to spend evenings out of home. It caused to the young wife a lot of a grief. Time went, and the ideal of her heart has turned to the drunkard.

At last having lost patience, she has gone to a tavern and, having addressed to the innkeeper, has told: «Give me, please, my husband! » — «here are your husband», — the innkeeper answered. «Is he my husband? What have you made with him? What you have transformed him in? Return him to me such what I knew him! »

Alcoholic drinks ruined happiness of many families. Drunkenness is a root of all harms; mother of defect; it doesn't know truth, takes away prudence. Wine heats mind and raises passions and voluptuousness. Who spends time in drunkenness, he has got to the cruel power of a devil.

The Bible says: “Who hath woe? Who hath sorrow? Who hath contentions? Who hath babbling? Who hath wounds without cause? Who hath redness of eyes? They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine. Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things. Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast. They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again” (Prov. 23,29-35).