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Watch: She Survived A Late-Term Abortion Attempt, Then Asked Planned Parenthood THIS
The House Judiciary Committee probing Planned Parenthood’s abortion activities heard testimony on Sept. 9 from two women who are abortion survivors.
Gianna Jessen, who survived a saline abortion, told the committee abortion wasn’t just about women’s rights because another person, a baby, is involved.
“If abortion is about women’s rights, then what are mine?” Jessen asked.
The committee launched an investigation into Planned Parenthood after nine videos showed interviews with both the non-profit organization’s officials and those working in tissue research. The interviews contained details of how Planned Parenthood harvested and sold body parts from aborted babies. In some cases, the babies were still alive when their organs were taken, according to the videos.
The videos were part of an undercover investigation by the Center for Medical Progress, a pro-life advocacy group.
Jessen’s mother was a 19-year-old college student when she walked into a Planned Parenthood office at seven and a half months pregnant in 1977. According to Jessen, Planned Parenthood staff talked her mother into having a late-term saline abortion.
In that procedure, a saline solution is injected into the amniotic fluid surrounding the baby. The baby is burned over several days and then is born dead after the mother is induced into labor.
Jessen shows the committee how she was born burned. She was diagnosed with cerebral palsy as a result of the botched abortion.
Melissa Ohden, founder of the Abortion Survivors Network, was also the victim of a late-term saline abortion in 1977. Ohden said she lived because two nurses provided medical care rather than dumping her “into a bucket of formaldehyde.”
The committee also heard from Priscilla J. Smith, a senior fellow for the Program for the Study of Reproductive Justice at Yale Law School, who testified in her personal capacity as a Democratic witness. She said the undercover videos were edited and unreliable and defended Planned Parenthood.
Democratic congressmen opposed the congressional hearings. Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., said the hearing was “one sided” and criticized the committee for not inviting Planned Parenthood or the Center for Medical Progress to the proceedings.
Source: http://www.westernjournalism.com/watch-she-survived-a-late-term-abortion-attempt-then-asked-planned-parenthood-this/
