CNSNews.com Dawn Rizzoni June 26, 2006
(CNSNews.com) – Abortion rights supporters in the Colorado House of Representatives are crying foul after a pro-life legislator introduced an abortion survivor before a celebration honoring Planned Parenthood.
When Republican Ted Harvey, the assistant minority leader in the Colorado House, learned on May 8 of legislation meant to honor Planned Parenthood’s Rocky Mountain branch, he says he was disgusted. He labeled Planned Parenthood’s record a “90-year legacy of genocide.”
Harvey attended a pro-life rally the weekend before the scheduled hearing on the bill and it was there that he met abortion survivor Gianna Jessen. Jessen’s biological mother was 17 years old and 7 1/2 months pregnant she went to a Planned Parenthood clinic to have a saline abortion.
The abortion failed and Jessen was born weighing two pounds and afflicted with cerebral palsy as a result of the complicated birth.
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I had a chance to meet her. She is a very compelling speaker.
Did you notice that the legislator who invited her to speak was castigated by pro-choicers for advancing his “private opinions”? Imagine if this were the mid-nineteenth century and he had invited a slave to speak. They would have said the same thing.