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 Gianna Jessen has a compelling case to put to Australian MPs
An "abortion survivor" will lobby federal politicians in
Canberra
tomorrow, ahead of a Senate debate next month on late term abortions.
Gianna Jessen, 31, will relate her extraordinary story at Parliament House. She is being sponsored by the ACL.
Tasmanian Senator Guy Barnett has moved in the Senate to ban Medicare funding of late-term and second trimester abortions — between 14 and 26 weeks — which he says has cost $1.7 million in Medicare payments since 1994.
The Senate vote will take place on September 17. It comes as the Victorian Parliament is debating Brumby Government moves to decriminalise abortion.
Gianna Jessen, who was due in
Australia on Sunday night (31 August 2008), has cerebral palsy as a result of the botched abortion in
Los Angeles
31 years ago.
On her website, she says she was aborted when her mother was seven months pregnant, but was saved by a nurse after being burned in the womb by a saline solution for 18 hours.
"I remained in the solution for approximately 18 hours and was delivered on April 6, 1977 at 6am in a Californian abortion clinic … a nurse called an ambulance while the abortionist was not yet on duty," she says.
"A saline abortion is a solution of salt saline that is injected into the mother's womb. It burns the baby inside and out and then the mother is to deliver a dead baby … this happened to me." |
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