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Pro Life Leftie | 03.11.2005 20:51 | Gender | Health | Social Struggles | World

From Indymedia Ireland

Gianna Tours Irish Universities highlighting Abortion issues
by Hillaire Belloc - CDL Thursday, Nov 3 2005, 11:49am
national / rights and freedoms / press release


Gianna Jessen was a 7-month-old unborn baby when her mother underwent a saline abortion.


Gianna Jessen was a 7-month-old unborn baby when her mother underwent a saline abortion. Gianna was left burning inside her womb for 18 hours. The saline solution was meant to kill her, but she did not die. She was delivered alive and saved by a nurse who took pity on her.

Because of the abortion, Gianna was diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy. Through sheer perseverance, and support from her adoptive family, she took her first step when she was four. Now Gianna travels the world, telling her incredible story. She has appeared on ABC, NBC and this November is coming to 6 Irish Universities.

Gianna is now 28 years old and is interested in real estate, singing and song writing. She is now touring the world speaking out against abortion and trying to get people to see the humanity of the unborn child -- the person who is killed by the process. "It is so much more comfortable not to talk about what it really is," she said.

Gianna says that she is saddened by pro-abortion groups' attempts to either ignore her or belittle her message. "If abortion is merely about women's rights, then what were mine? There wasn't those particular kind of feminist squawking about my rights, in fact, those types of feminists prefer I'd die," she said.

Jessen said that the abortion practitioner began the abortion process on her mother and left. Had he been present he would likely have finished the abortion and killed her.

Gianna is touring Ireland as part of The Revelation Tour in Irish Colleges in late November. The tour is organised by Ultrasound – a pro-life student organisation which is going from strength to strength in our colleges and universities.

Make sure to come to see her at a University near you!

The Revelation Tour

Monday, 21 November UCD, 7pm – Theatre O, Arts Block
Tuesday, 22 November DCU, 7pm – Terence Larkin Theatre
Wednesday, 23 November NUIM, 7pm – John Hume Theatre 2
Thursday, 24 November NUIG, 7pm – O hEocha, Arts Millennium
Monday, 28 November UL, 7pm – SG 042, Foundation Building
Tuesday, 29 November UCC, 7pm – Boole 3, Boole Basement

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Comments

Display the following 29 comments

  1. Catholic Leftie! — Feminist
  2. gets better and better — twilight
  3. Anti abortionists cause disability and poverty — add comments to Irish IndyMedia
  4. what the hell? — jo
  5. Anti abortionists cause disability and poverty — abort pro lifers
  6. Catholicism and Leftism — Non-Christian
  7. Abortion and War — Joseph Charles Stockett
  8. More survivors — Anti eugenics
  9. reply to comment above — m
  10. Reply to comment — Anti eugenics
  11. 6 billion and you give the excuse of a few botched operations — abort pro lifers
  12. Ova-populashian? Fuck dem — Crocus
  13. my take on this is baised but.. — potential survivor
  14. Crocus is a racist troll — Defeat racism
  15. Kill all babies — Uncle Joe
  16. goodness — zoe
  17. A Response to Infantophobes — Pro Woman Pro Life
  18. Reply to Zoe — Uncle Joe
  19. The facts, Please — sophia8
  20. Murderous intentions. — Uncle Joe
  21. Where's the proof? — Sophia8
  22. Saline Abortion - some facts — sophia8
  23. Feminist propaganda — Uncle Joe
  24. Fathers — sophia8
  25. Missing the point. — Uncle Joe
  26. inappropriate — sophia8
  27. Evidence to back up your claims, please — Uncle Joe
  28. Reference material. — Uncle Joe
  29. More typical leftie hypocrisy... — Tom Sawyer