April 6, 1977: Happy Birthday, Gianna Jessen!

On April 5, 1977, a 17-year-old girl entered a Los Angeles Planned Parenthood. Though she was just a few days shy of 30 weeks pregnant, she wanted the viable baby in her womb to emerge dead, not alive. Thus, this unnamed teen chose to submit to a risky saline abortion.

In a saline abortion, the abortionist uses an amniocentesis syringe to remove as much amniotic fluid as possible, then replace it with a strong sterile saline solution. The unborn child breathes and swallows this caustic fluid. It gets in the child's eyes. It eats away at the child's internal organs and the child's skin. The baby might bleed to death internally or die from the injuries the high saline levels cause to her internal organs. 

Sometimes the saline gets into the mother's bloodstream and she dies along with her baby.

This was a girl who very much wanted her unborn baby dead.

As planned, the teen went into labor. But the plans went awry 18 hours after the saline was injected. The baby, a red and scalded little girl came out alive at 6:00 the following morning.

The abortionist hadn't arrived at work yet, so he wasn't there to remind everybody that abortions must always result in a dead baby, even if death needs to be achieved after the baby emerges. A nurse called 911. The baby was transported to a hospital.

That baby was Gianna Jessen. 

Gianna Jessen

Due to the saline, Gianna had suffered brain damage during the abortion. She spent 3 months in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit before going into the care of a foster family specializing in high-risk babies. She was eventually adopted by her foster mother's daughter. 

The brain damage from the abortion had left Gianna with cerebral palsy (CP). She often asked her mother why she had CP but wouldn't get a clear answer. Finally, at the age of 12, Gianna replied to one of the vague answers with, "I was aborted, wasn't I?"

That's when she learned the truth. 

Two years later, Gianna went public with her story to a group of only 10 people at a Mexican restaurant. One of those people was a reporter for the Orange County Register. The paper published the story, and Gianna has been speaking about her story ever since.

Happy 48th Birthday, Gianna.

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Sources:

• "Planned Parenthood Exposed: Examining the Horrific Abortion Practices at the Nation's Largest Abortion Provider," U.S. House Judiciary Committee, 114th Cong. (2015) 
• "She Survived a Saline Abortion. Here’s Her Story," The Daily Signal, February 12, 2019
• "Survivor #1: Gianna Jessen," Life Institute, undated