Gianna Jessen Sure Won’t Be Voting For Barack Obama!
Posted By: 'Okie' | 5:02 pm — 9/16/2008 | 
1 Comment See comments below:
Those who have read this blog for very long will know that I am a strong Pro-Life blogger, having come to that position from several angles, having been an adopted child from birth for one, and a strict So. Baptist upbringing for another. Unless there is a risk of immediate, fatal harm to the mother, I can’t see a rationale that supports the killing of innocent nascent human life. Not hard to see why Barack Obama leaves me especially cold, as he is one of the most pro-abortion candidates ever on a national ticket. As the ad above shows, Barack Obama voted multiple times against an Illinois law that would mandate that a baby born alive from a botched abortion MUST be taken care of and not be left to die, even if that had been the intent of the mother.
The spokesperson in the ad is one Gianna Jessen, herself the product of just such a botched abortion. I saw her on Hannity and Colmes last night and her story is compelling. When it was Allan Colmes turn to interview her, even he squirmed and looked decidedly uncomfortable as he mouthed the tired old liberal positions about a woman’s right to choose, and as he tried, and in my opinion failed, to defend Obama’s votes on this issue. She even challenged him, asking him to look at her now and tell her to her face that she should have been left to die because it was her mother’s right to choose that she should die.
The Anchoress breaks it down like this:
The way I understand it, the Infants Born Alive Bill was introduced to the IL Senate and Obama voted against it because he wanted it to have the same language as the Federal Born Alive Bill. When the bill was re-presented containing that clause, Obama voted against it again. So, given the chance, twice, to vote against infanticide, Obama voted for.
He also lied about all of this earlier in the campaign, before admitting that he was lying.
Obama has the most liberal voting record you can have on the issue of abortion. He does not, like Joe Biden, draw the line at the savagery of partial-birth abortion – he sides with the scissor, the vacuum and the death. He does not draw the line (as Nancy Pelosi and even Hillary Clinton do) at infanticide. His votes say, “that baby was supposed to be dead; let it die.”
Gianna Jessen was once such a baby — her 17-year old mother wanted her to just die already!
Gianna Jessen does not quit. Giving up is not an option to her. Gianna has what she refers to as the “gift” of Cerebral Palsy. She weighed a mere 2 lbs at birth and the doctors said she would never be able to hold up her head, sit up, crawl or walk. She began to walk by the age of three years old with the help of leg braces and a walker.
Gianna doesn’t believe that her Cerebral Palsy takes away her life, but, rather, enriches it. . . she walks with a slight limp today and runs marathons. On April 30, 2005 she completed her first 26.2 mile marathon after running just over 7 hours and was presented with the coveted blank blank award! On April 23, 2006 she completed the London Marathon as well. She is now determined to run marathons all over the place, because she was never supposed to even walk!
Gianna understands the plight of orphans, being one herself. She was placed into the foster care system early on in life, eventually being taken into the loving home of a woman named Penny. Penny has been a mother to 56 foster children in her life. Gianna was later adopted by Penny’s daughter, making Penny Gianna’s grandmother. According to Gianna, Penny saved her life.
Gianna is a Christian. Her life was given to her by the grace of God. She shouldn’t be walking, but more miraculous still; she should not even be alive. Gianna’s biological mother was 17 when she had a saline abortion in her third trimester. Many Americans don’t realize it is legal to have an abortion throughout all nine months of pregnancy. After being burned alive for approximately 18 hours in the womb from the saline solution, Gianna was delivered alive in a Los Angeles County abortion clinic. Her medical records state, “born during saline abortion”…this is what caused her Cerebral Palsy.
I’m certain beyond any shadow of a doubt that if Roe v. Wade had been the law of the land in 1952 that this ol’ Okie would have been nothing more than a forgotten spatter of discarded tissue in some abortion mill in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Instead, I got to experience being raised by two of the most amazing people I can imagine ever having lived on this Earth. I’m not delusional, I know that is not everyone’s story, adopted or not. However, if you are never allowed to live, just because it might be an inconvenience, just because that might be the repercussions of a bad decision, just because you can’t afford the cost of having a child — then how can you ever know? Pretty lame excuses for killing something human. If we were talking about puppies or kittens, there wouldn’t be any discussion at all, as the Pro-Choice folks would walk through fire to save them.
Especially if it involves a child, born yet or not — If in doubt, choosing “life” is the only moral option.
Technorati Tags: Pro-Life, Barack Obama, Gianna Jessen, Allan Colmes
This entry was posted on Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 at 5:02 pm and is filed under Culture of Life, Pro Life. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. |
Print This Post
| 
Email This Post
Recently Posted:
- Obamessiah Wants To Heal You With Obamacare — Are You Feelin’ Any Better Yet?
- Stars & Stripes NOT Flying At Main U.S. Relief Site In Haiti!
- Obamacare — The Last Big Push — Better Stock Up On The KY . . . You’re A Gonna Need It!
- Is Obamacare A Suicide Pact? Dems Are Gonna Find Out The Hard Way!
- Obamacare Vote Coming This Week — Dems To America — Sit Down! Shut Up! Take It Already!
- Salt To Be Banned In New York Restaurants?
- “Stop Obamacare” Babies — Heh!
- The Census & Your Race — Are You An ‘American”?
- Obama Comin’ After Your Rod, Reel & Bass Boat? — Hmmm . . . Maybe!
- “Only Glenn Beck Understands Me . . . There’s A Communist Living In The White House!”
16 September 2008 | christina Said:
That’s gotta be as scary for Barak Obama as it was for Pat Schroeder: a fetus with attitude.
But Gianna was lucky. A nurse recognized her as a baby, not just a fetus ex-utero, and sent her to the NICU.
It is in the case of Ximenia Renearts that we more clearly see Obama’s attitude in action. Ximenia’s mother underwent an abortion, thought her fetus was dead, then showed up at a hospital in pain. The staff at the hospital elected to respect her choice, to refrain from further burdening her. They stuck the fetus in a bedpan. They left the fetus, cold and alone, in a closet. It wasn’t until another hospital employee mistook the fetus for a baby that care was sought.
Ximenia’s adoptive parents sued on her behalf, arguing that since she’d been born alive, she was a baby and entitled to care.
BC Minister of Health, Michelle Stewart, was dismissive of the issue of infants born live during abortions, commenting, “As you know, this Ministry is very much in favor of giving women choices about their reproductive health.” British Columbia’s Chief Coroner Larry Campbell included a letter in a report on such live births, and dismissed them as to be expected in abortion and therefore outside the purview of BC coroners, who only get involved if a death is “unexpected”.
This is the stand Obama took. That providing care for babies like Ximenia was too much of a burden on the mother’s choice.
If you’re okay with that — if you think that the wrongdoing was by the people who provided Ximenia with care, not by the ones who left her in a bedpan to die — then by all means, vote for Barak Obama.
As for Ximenia herself, she is too profoundly disabled to speak out. About anything. Which is lucky for Obama. One less fetus with attitude to challenge his assertion that the proper thing to do with them is stick them in a closet and wait for them to die.