Born Alive After Abortion - Abortion Survivors: Stories of Tragedy and Triumph

The sole purpose of abortion is to kill an unborn baby. Whether you call it a "blob of tissue," a "parasite," "product of conception," embryo, fetus, unborn child, pre-born baby, or simply a baby, if you abort it, it's supposed to be dead. That's what abortion is all about.

But sometimes the baby is born alive. With a heartbeat, with a tiny chest heaving, gasping for air, crying, with tiny hands moving. Sometimes the baby lives only minutes. Sometimes the baby lives for as long as ten hours. Sometimes the baby survives to adulthood.

A study in the UK found that among babies aborted for medical reasons, such as Down's Syndrome and heart defects, one baby in 30 was born alive. These babies were aborted between 17 and 24 weeks. That's 3% of disabled babies were born alive, and this is happening in 18 out of 20 maternity units in the West Midlands alone.

Now the question is how many healthy babies aborted for social reasons are surviving abortions. The figures for healty aborted babies that survive must be much higher than the numbers of disabled babies that survive.

Another UK investigation found that 50 babies a year are surviving botched National Health Service abortions, raising the legal and ethical issue of viable infants who die without receiving medical care.

A more recent UK study found that 66 babies a year survive failed abortions and are left to die with no care whatsoever. Infanticide. Holocaust. Murder. There is no other way to describe it.

Click on these links for more information on Aborted Alive/Abortion Survivors:

Aborted Alive: the Dreaded Complication - When the fetus fails to die as expected - To an abortionist, the "dreaded complication" isn't a dead mother -- it's a live baby.

DOJ: Betraying Aborted-Alive Babies

One Baby in 30 Left Alive After Medical Termination

Scores of Babies Left to Die After NHS Abortions that Go Wrong

Shots Assist in Aborting Fetuses - Lethal Injections Offer Legal Shield

BABY HOPE

"Baby Hope" was scheduled by her mother for a partial birth abortion with the notorious abortionist Martin Haskell at the Women's Med Center in Dayton, Ohio, and had completed the first of three steps leading up to the abortion. However, the 19-year old woman went to the emergency room of a local hosptial complaining of severe abdominal pain. She neglected to mention to the ER staff that she was five months pregnant and that she had begun the partial-birth abortion procedure.

Suddenly, she gave birth to a little girl who took a gasp of air, and although extremely premature, continued to breathe on her own. Hospital ER technician Shelly Lowe and nursing staff had compassion on the tiny baby, and Lowe held her close, comforted her, and sang to Baby Hope until until she died three hours and eight minutes after her birth. On the other hand, some have wondered why the baby was not rushed to intensive care or airlifted to a neonatal facility nearby, since babies at 22-weeks can and have survived outside the womb.

BABY ROWAN













From WorldNetDaily: A woman who was scheduled to have her 22-week-along pregnancy ended at a Florida abortion clinic instead delivered the baby alive in the clinic's restroom and says her pleas and cries for help from the medical staff went unheeded, even when an employee saw that the tiny boy was moving. The abortion clinic staff member discounted her claim that the boy was alive and refused to do anything to help the baby. Abortion is about dead babies, not live ones. According to his mother, the boy, whom she named Rowan, died about 11 minutes after birth.

BABY GIRL WILLIAMS/SHANICE DENISE OSBOURNE

From WorldNetDaily: An investigation into the remains of a baby found at a Hialeah, Fla., abortion clinic in July has determined that the child was born alive, but authorities say it may come down to an interpretation of federal law whether charges will be filed. Police were called into the case back in July after an 18-year-old went for an abortion, but the baby was born while she waited, and she observed the little girl breathing before a business worker came and put the baby in a biohazard bag.

An anonymous tipster told police about the situation, then later updated them that the body apparently had been stashed on the roof of the building to prevent officers from finding it, and returned to the building later.

Aborted Baby Born Alive, Authorities Say
Coroner Says Baby at Abortion Business was Born Alive

GIANNA JESSEN

Gianna Jessen survived a saline abortion, in which a caustic saline solution is injected into the amniotic fluid in the mother's womb. The baby dies after swallowing the salt solution, and its body is burned black. The baby is literally scalded to death and then delivered dead. A very slow and painful death, and the baby thrashes violently about in the mother's body from the pain and agony of the salt solution.

But Gianna did not die, and as a tireless pro-life advocate, she now travels the world telling her amazing story of survival and life after abortion.

We have had the honor and privelege of hearing Gianna Jessen speak and have talked with her at her book signing. She is a strong, independent, outspoken, funny, spunky, and inspiring young woman. She has a beautiful singing voice. Although she suffers from cerebral palsy as a result of the abortion, she has run in marathons, and nothing slows her down.

We'll never forget her words about 'woman's choice:' "If abortion is merely about women's rights, then what were mine? There wasn't a radical feminist yelling about how my rights were being violated on that day."

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Here is Gianna's story in her own words, as reported by the UK Independent:

"My biological mother was seven-and-a-half months pregnant when she decided to abort me. I don't know why she made that decision. It was 1977. She and my biological father were 17 at the time and weren't married.

She went to a clinic in Los Angeles and had a saline abortion. A salt solution is injected into the mother's womb, which the baby gulps. The solution also burns the baby inside and out. The idea was that within 24 hours she would deliver a dead baby. But, by the grace of God, I survived.

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 2002 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. I'll be running on behalf of Stars Organization Supporting Cerebral Palsy.

When I was 17, Diana met my biological mother and communicated very clearly to her my forgiveness. I'm a Christian. I believe that bitterness eats up your life. I want to be the opposite of bitter. I never wanted to meet her. Penny has loved me so well I don't feel the need. I don't know much about the meeting, only that she didn't ask for forgiveness from me and that she had another abortion later.

I started speaking out about abortion when I was 14, and on Tuesday I will be speaking to a parliamentary meeting at the House of Commons about it. I believe that it's important when something like this has happened to you to present the truth about not just abortion, but also about what a tremendous life you can possess through overcoming weakness.

Even though rape is a horrific crime I do not believe that a child should have to pay for the crime. I don't believe that abortion in that case will solve a problem. In fact I have met people who are the product of rape and they say they are very glad to be alive. If abortion is merely about women's rights then what were mine? There wasn't a radical feminist yelling about how my rights were being violated on that day.

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.

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Links to more articles about Gianna Jessen:

GiannaJessen.com

Abortion Survivors! Gianna Jessen

Gianna Jessen was Aborted at 7 1/2 months. She Survived

Lawsuit after Abortion Survivor's Speech Banned

I Survived an Abortion Attempt

Gianna Jessen

Aborted Fetus Sings

Below: Photo of a Baby Killed by a Saline Abortion, the same technique used to abort Gianna Jessen. [Photo from http://www.priestsforlife.org/ ]

ANA ROSA RODRIGUEZ

Look at the picture of Ana Rosa Rodriguez on the left. At first glance, she might look like an average little girl to you. However, if you look closely, you'll notice that this child is missing her right arm.

That's because her arm was ripped off in the process of an abortion on New York's Lower East Side in October of 1991. Ana Rosa was 32 weeks old at the time of the abortion. It was performed by legal abortionist Abu Hayat. Rosa, Ana Rosa's mother (who was only 20 years old at the time), had told Hayat that she had changed her mind and didn’t want to go through with the abortion.

"He said that it was impossible to stop, that I had to continue," Rosa told New York Newsday. According to Rosa, Hayat’s assistants held her down while he sedated her. When she awoke, she was told that the abortion was incomplete and that she should come back the following day.

That evening, however, she experienced increasing pain and bleeding. Her mother took her to Jamaica Hospital by taxi, where, five hours later, baby Ana Rosa was born. Aside from the loss of her right arm, Ana Rosa is a perfectly healthy little girl.

HEIDI HUFFMAN

In 1978, Tina Huffman was a pregnant, unwed 17-year-old from a broken, dysfunctional home. Her mom and dad, as well as her boyfriend’s parents, adamantly insisted she had only one option: abortion.

Tina yielded to their demands and had a suction abortion. But the abortionist "missed" Baby Heidi, even though he took most of the placenta and amniotic fluid. Heidi was delivered by C-section several months later. From her earliest years, Heidi attended pro-life rallies, programs and conferences with her mom, and then graduated to picketing and sidewalk counseling at abortion clinics.

Heidi herself says, "I believe that all young people are survivors of abortion, just like I am, because they too could have been killed under the current policy of our government, which declared us "non-persons" when we were in the womb."

SARAH SMITH

In 1970, three years before Roe vs. Wade knocked down all laws against abortion in the United States, California had already legalized abortion. Sarah’s mother, Betty, had an abortion in Los Angeles. Neither she nor the the abortionist realized she was carrying twins. As a result, one of the twins--Sarah--survived the abortion.

"Somehow, miraculously, I survived!" says Sarah. "My twin brother wasn’t so lucky. Andrew was aborted and we lost him forever. Several weeks later, my mother was shocked to feel me kicking in her womb. She already had five children and she knew what it felt like when a baby kicked in the womb. She instantly knew that somehow she was still pregnant." Sarah’s mother went back to the doctor and told him she was still pregnant, that she had made a big mistake and that she wanted to keep this baby.

"To this day, my mother deeply regrets that abortion," says Sarah. "I know the pain is unbearable for her at times when she looks at me and knows she aborted my twin brother. Mom says ‘the protective hand of Almighty God saved my life,’ that God’s hand covered and hid me in her womb, and protected me from the scalpel of death."

Sarah survived the abortion, but was born with bilateral, congenital dislocated hips and many other physical handicaps. Nine days after her birth she was taken to an orthopedic surgeon who applied a cast to each of her tiny legs. "My mom would remove these casts with pliers every Monday morning and take me to the doctor to have new casts put on," she recounts. "At six weeks I was put into my first body cast. Many surgeries and body casts followed over the next few years."

XIMENA RENAERTS

Ximena's odessy with Vancouver General Hospital began on Dec. 16, 1985, the day she was born. After attempting an abortion at a free-standing mill in Bellingham, Wash. Ximena's birth mother entered VGH, where she gave birth. According to court documents, staff delivered the child into a "hat"--a plastic pot--and then senior nurse Vera Wood whisked her away. Ximena was placed in a room "where dead fetuses were stored," even though she was "moving, gasping, (and) crying weakly."

Court documents say Wood checked back some 26 minutes later, to find the child still alive. A nursing supervisor was called and arrived almost an hour after Ximena's birth. She found the child still in the "hat," uncovered, on a stainless-steel counter. By the time the Infant Transport Team arrived, Ximena had suffered a severe loss of heat, which in turn caused extensive and permanent brain damage.

Ximena's adoptive family eventually sued VGH for $10 million. Hospital officials petitioned to have the case heard before a judge only, but the B.C. Supreme Court ruled it would be best heard before a jury. In June of this year, facing the prospect of a public trial, the hospital settled out of court for an undisclosed amount of money. All family members will say is that Ximena will be well taken care of.