Abortion rights extremists decried Rep. Ted Harvey's introduction of Gianna Jensen Jessen, a woman who survived a botched late-term abortion. Jessen’s presence apparently tainted the assembly’s resolution to recognize Planned Parenthood, the nation's number one abortion provider.
Medical records show that as an unborn baby of about 24 weeks' gestation, Jessen was injected with a high-concentration saline solution for the purpose of bringing about her death via abortion. Although the poisonous salt solution worked on Jessen’s fragile body for 5 hours, her mother went into labor and she survived. She was injured and today bears some of the scars and a mild case of cerebral palsy. But she is alive, she is well and full of life.
Although it's hard to believe, Harvey’s critics responded by claiming that Jessen’s health problems could not be tied to the botched abortion.
Update: LifeNews has more on this story.
The Rocky Mountain News has mis-stated Gianna's last name as Jensen when it is, in fact, Jessen.
In my hasty write up of Gianna's marvelous performance
in the legislature, I regret ascribing her holding onto
Rep. Harvey to frailty.
Gianna explained at the Foundtion for Life in Media banquet,
at which she spoke Saturday eve, that her CP causes balance
issues.
The word frail is totally inappropriate for Gianna who just finished running a 26 mile marathon in London last month.
I regret that poor choice of words for this most powerful
and lovely young lady!
FYI, the Rocky Mountain News messed up. Her name is Gianna Jessen, not Gianna Jensen.
Thanks for the correction - I should have known how to spell her name!