Gianna Jessen is the US anti-abortion activist best qualified to speak on the topic: she survived abortion and invites us to reflect.
Gianna Jessen arrives in Italy, and Cesena. This is a highly anticipated intervention: la Jessen, survivor of an abortion, it is one of the most important American anti-abortion activists.
La Jessen, that he has 42 years, has always been committed to supporting the movements that oppose abortion and told his story to the United States Congress and the United Kingdom House of Commons.
The anti-abortion activist tells her story: was born in thirtieth week of pregnancy of his mother, a seventeen year old from Tennessee, following a failed abortion attempt. Her parents didn't want her.
However, the fetus survived the injection of a saline solution into the uterus. «A saline abortion consists of the injection of a salt solution into the mother's uterus – says Jensen in her testimonies – the baby swallows the solution, that burns him inside and out, and then the mother gives birth to a dead child within 24 ore».
«Questo è capitato a me – continua la Jessen – sono rimasta nella soluzione per circa 18 ore e sono stata partorita viva il 6 April 1977 all 6 del mattino in una clinica per aborti della California. C’erano giovani donne nella stanza. Quando mi videro, provarono l’orrore dell’omicidio».
Gianna fu partorita viva e venne trasferita subito in ospedale, anche per merito del caso: il medico abortista non era ancora arrivato. Despite it all, l’anossia dovuta alla soluzione salina le causò una paralisi cerebrale e muscolare.
Adottata a tre anni, superò le difficoltà motorie indotte dalla paralisi e riuscì a camminare senza tutore, seppure con notevoli difficoltà. Dalla sua storia sono nati un libro (la sua autobiografia) e un film (October Baby).
Gianna will speak Saturday at 16 March at 17,30 at the Verdi theater in Cesena. Entrance is free.
Watch Gianna Jessen's speech at the Queen's Hall in Melbourne in 2008.