More on Gianna

BBC news website now carrying the Gianna Jessen story within, of all places, the Health section. Let's have no doubts that her story- of being born alive after a late abortion attempt- is political, and she is currently on a European tour to promote anti-abortion campaigns. In London, she's speaking for the 'pro-life' 'Alive and Kicking' campaign.

"My determination not to give up is often misunderstood as being over confident.
But it is not that. I am just determined not to give up. I am just not a
quitter. Being almost murdered in the womb and then having to struggle from the
moment I was delivered means I have a love of life and a joy of life". Gianna
has never met her biological mother, but her adopted mother has and passed on
Gianna's forgiveness.

Her forgiveness, her martyrdom, her cult of personality, her claim to fame. Why does this story disturb me so? First I doubted its veracity, but if the heart isn't stopped first, a 3rd trimester abortion could produce a viable foetus. Maybe she did survive a (botched) abortion, but the details of how her mother obtained this are very sketchy. It's implied in Gianna's statements over the years (and she's been a Christian pro-life campaigner for at least 14 of her 28 years) that her 17-year old mother had an elective abortion for social/psychological reasons, an allegation which is and was incompatible with state law.

No- what really bothers me is that this woman has made a cult of her birth and survival, made it the centre of her activities and identity. This makes her a pure nut. Gianna had the misfortune to be adopted by religious nuts as a trophy baby. According to Gianna, she had already 'sensed' she'd been a product of an abortion when her adoptive mother revealed her origins on Xmas day when she was 12. Here's her barking account of this:
http://members.tripod.com/~joseromia/gianna.html

Or see this from when she was 14 yrs old:

"Gianna Jessen is truly one in a billion. Gianna, the peppy 14-year-old
from San Clemente, California was never born. . . she was aborted. Gianna goes
about the country singing praises to the Lord and sharing her incredible life
story of how she was spared from a deadly “Saline Abortion” at seven months
(pre-natal). Through the grace of God, tiny two pound Gianna was born
alive, instead of dead, after the legal abortion attempt. It is reported that
about 1 out of 400 saline aborted babies are born alive like Gianna was.
Someone on the abortion clinic staff rescued the baby who was starving for
oxygen after gulping the saline solution that burned her inside and out for
hours. Later as Gianna grew into a little girl, she would have a terrible
reaction to the sound of fire, like fire crackers or the sound of fire crackling
in a fireplace. Her therapist concluded this hysteria to the sound of fire
was due to the burning of the saline solution in her ears while she was still in
the womb. " http://www.marys-touch.com/testimonies/jessen.htm

Nuts or what? This woman is a trained performing monkey. Gianna, get a life.