Abortion Survivors

Last night I heard the story of Gianna Jessen through the words of congressman Ted Harvey of the Colorado House of Representatives. It is an amazing testimony to the kind of horrors brought on by abortion. In this country, murdering unborn children is legal due to the successful propaganda of the political left-wing and Supreme Court decisions that have overruled state law.

Jessen was born with cerebral palsy and was not expected to live. Despite all odds, she has learned to cope with her disease and accomplish impressive achievements in the process. Among these is a successful finish in the London Marathon! Truly she is an inspiration to all who struggle with physical disabilities.

Now here's the shocker: Jessen would not have cerebral palsy if her birth mother had not elected to visit a Planned Parenthood clinic and seek a late-term abortion. A doctor performed a saline abortion on this seventeen-year-old mother. The procedure is designed to bathe the unborn child in salt water, resulting in burning the fetus inside and out. Normally, within 24 hours it produces a still birth.

But not in Gianna Jessen's case. She was born very much alive. The saline caused a lack of oxygen to her brain, which resulted in cerebral palsy. She lives with the scars of her birth-mother's decision even today.

Congressman Harvey, who is an ardent pro-life advocate, used Jessen's story to advantage. The way he manipulated the Colorado Congress on the day they were approving a resolution to honor Planned Parenthood's 90th anniversery is invigorating for those who are repulsed by the 1.5 million abortions that take place in this nation every year.

God is the giver of life (Acts 17:25), the possessor of all souls (Ezk. 18:4). Therefore only He has the right to decide who will live and who will die. Those who pluck the fruit of the womb and cast it aside as refuse will answer for their sins.