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(Daily Signal<\/a>) An abortion survivor urged Americans to \u201cwake up\u201d to the reality that some babies born alive after an attempted abortion are left to die, the survivor testified at a hearing on Capitol Hill last week.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany Americans have no idea that babies can even live through abortions and are often left to die, but this does happen,\u201d Gianna Jessen, 39, said at the hearing. \u201cI know this, because I was born alive in an abortion clinic after being burned in my mother\u2019s womb for 18 hours.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jessen, who has cerebral palsy due to her attempted abortion<\/a>, added at a\u00a0House Judiciary Constitution and Civil Justice Subcommittee hearing <\/a>on Sept. 23:<\/p>\n

My medical records clearly state the following: Born during saline abortion \u2026 Apart from Jesus himself, the only reason I am alive is the fact that the abortionist had not yet arrived at work that morning. Had he been there, he would have ended my life by strangulation, suffocation, or simply leaving me there to die.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cOften when I\u2019m in the midst of abortion advocates, they never can answer this one question and it is this: If abortion is merely about women\u2019s rights, then what were mine?\u201d Jessen said.<\/p>\n

\u201cApart from Jesus, the reason I am alive is the fact that the abortionist had not yet arrived at work.\u201d \u2014@giannajessen<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In 2002, President George W. Bush signed<\/a>\u00a0the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act, making it illegal to kill any babies born alive.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnfortunately, incidents involving born-alive children being killed after an attempted abortion have continued after this law [was passed] and into the present,\u201d Arina Grossu, director for the Center of Human Dignity at the Family Research Council, testified at the hearing. Grossu\u2019s written testimony<\/a> says:<\/p>\n

Abortionist Kermit Gosnell operated his dirty and dangerous Philadelphia abortion business and committed horrendous crimes in Philadelphia for over three decades. \u2026 His heinous and murderous practices of snipping the spines of born-alive children were only discovered by accident when federal and state authorities raided his facility in 2010, not because he was illegally killing born-alive infants, but because of his illegal prescription drug activity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Grossu says Gosnell is \u201cnot an outlier.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNot one person to date has been charged or convicted under the current federal [Born-Alive Infants Protection Act] law,\u201d Grossu testified.<\/p>\n

The House passed the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, introduced by Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., in September 2015. An identical bill<\/a> in the Senate, introduced by Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., was referred to the Judiciary Committee.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe abortion industry has labored for all of these decades to convince the world that unborn children and born children should be completely separated in our minds, that while born children are persons worthy of protection, unborn children are not persons and are not worthy of protection,\u201d Franks, chairman of the subcommittee, said at the hearing.<\/p>\n

Franks\u2019 legislation would protect the rights of infants born alive after an abortion and leave criminal consequences for health care professionals who violate the law. The legislation<\/a> would also require proper medical care be given by the health care practitioner present when an infant is born alive.<\/p>\n

The legislation \u201cexplicitly requires health care practitioners to treat born-alive abortion survivors with the same care they would treat any other born-alive baby and admit such babies immediately to a hospital.\u201d The law would also hold abortionists accountable for killing born-alive infants, Grossu testified.<\/p>\n

President Barack Obama\u2019s administration \u201cstrongly opposes\u201d the passage of this bill, according to a statement<\/a> from September 2015.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe White House has promised that it would veto the born-alive legislation, citing it would have a \u2018chilling\u2019 effect,\u201d Grossu testified. \u201cI cannot think of a more chilling effect than continuing to let U.S. abortionists commit infanticide.\u201d<\/p>\n

Grossu urged support for the legislation to stop infanticide, or intentionally killing an infant child, in the United States.<\/p>\n

The Hyde Amendment<\/a>, also under examination at the hearing, prohibits the use of certain taxpayer dollars in abortion cases, except in rape, incest, or to save the mother\u2019s life.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday we will hear testimony on existing statutory language prohibiting taxpayer funding from paying for the taking of the lives of preborn children through abortion,\u201d Franks said. \u201cThere is concern that the Obama administration or a potential Clinton administration may intend to reinterpret the plain and longstanding meaning of the Hyde Amendment.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Hyde Amendment, an appropriations policy rider that has been passed each year since 1976<\/a>, has its 40th anniversary this week.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a black woman, I am outraged that the morally bankrupt Hyde Amendment has been permitted to persist for so long,\u201d Kierra Johnson, executive director of Unite for Reproductive & Gender Equity, testified. \u201cIt is a source of pain for many women and should be a source of shame for those who support it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Hyde Amendment prevents women from even being able to make a decision about their health care,\u201d Johnson said.<\/p>\n

While Genevieve Plaster, a senior policy analyst at the Charlotte Lozier Institute, a pro-life nonprofit organization, testified<\/a> that the Hyde Amendment has saved over 2 million lives since 1976, or approximately 60,000 lives per year.<\/p>\n

\u201cAmerica was founded on the concept that our rights come from God,\u201d Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, said at the hearing. \u201cWhen our rights come from God, how would it be possible that those rights would confer a right to kill a baby?\u201d<\/p>\n

Editor’s note: This article originally appeared at the Daily Signal<\/a>, and is reprinted here with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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