{"id":9213,"date":"2011-12-29T02:17:28","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T07:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liveaction.org\/blog\/?p=9213"},"modified":"2013-04-02T06:15:04","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T10:15:04","slug":"the-faces-of-aborted-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/the-faces-of-aborted-children\/","title":{"rendered":"The faces of aborted children"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I\u2019m guessing that, based on the title of this post, you think I\u2019m going to talk about photographs of aborted children.\u00a0 Nope.\u00a0 I\u2019m going to talk about the living faces of aborted children.\u00a0 They wield an incredible power all their own.<\/p>\n

Take Alex <\/a>for example.\u00a0 When she was only three years old, she heard her mom talking on TV about how she had had an abortion.\u00a0 At her extremely young and tender age, Alex understood enough to ask her mother why she had killed her brother or sister but not her.\u00a0 Today, Alex and her mother are pro-life speakers who spread the message of hope, love, and life for all <\/em>babies.\u00a0 Alex is a living face for aborted children.\u00a0 She is a survivor.\u00a0 She could have been aborted.<\/p>\n

My own mom is another example.\u00a0 My grandmother has publicly stated that she became pregnant with my mom by a man who date raped her.\u00a0 Although she gave birth to my mom, she had an abortion with my mom\u2019s only fully biological sibling.\u00a0 Later, my grandmother had two sons, my mom\u2019s half-brothers, but aborted the child she conceived after them.\u00a0 Today, my grandmother regrets her abortions and donates to the pro-life cause.\u00a0 My mom\u2014and her brothers\u2014are living faces for aborted children.\u00a0 It could have been them.\u00a0 They lost siblings to the horror that is abortion.<\/p>\n

Of course, there are also the faces of men and women who have personally survived abortions.\u00a0 Gianna Jessen<\/a>, a famous pro-life speaker, survived a saline abortion and was adopted.\u00a0 A biography about Gianna describes how, at the age of three, she was terrified of the crackling sound a campfire made.\u00a0 Her adoptive mother came to realize that this was the same sound saline solution makes in an abortion as it burns the baby alive.\u00a0 Clearly, unborn babies experience<\/em> abortion.\u00a0 It\u2019s something that is done to them.\u00a0 They feel pain.\u00a0 Their mind\u2014if they survive\u2014remembers.\u00a0 Gianna Jessen has been a powerful living face for aborted children for years.<\/p>\n

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Rebecca Kiessling<\/p><\/div>\n

Rebecca Kiessling<\/a>, whom I\u2019ve personally met and spoken with, is also an abortion survivor.\u00a0 Her mother was raped, and wanted to have an abortion.\u00a0 She tried to obtain one twice, but failed.\u00a0 Rebecca was adopted, and has gone on to reconcile with her birth mother, is a pro-life attorney, a national speaker, and a spokeswoman for Personhood USA<\/a>, a rising organization in the pro-life movement.\u00a0 Only days ago, Rebecca spoke to GOP presidential candidate Governor Rick Perry and was instrumental in changing his mind on the rape and incest exceptions to abortion.<\/p>\n

Governor Perry stated<\/a>, \u201cWe had a fairly lengthy and heartfelt conversation about how she [Rebecca Kiessling] was conceived in rape. Looking in her eyes, I couldn\u2019t come up with an answer to defend exceptions for rape and incest.\u00a0 Over the course of the last few weeks, the Christmas holiday, reflecting on that \u2013 I would suggest that my pro-life position has been rather strong as the Governor of Texas. \u00a0But she made a statement to me that was really strong and pierced my heart\u2026I will suggest to you that all I can tell you is God was working on my heart.\u201d<\/p>\n

What an incredible living face for aborted children Rebecca Kiessling is!\u00a0 We need to encourage abortion survivors to share their stories and be a face and a voice for those who have none.\u00a0 You can read more stories here<\/a>.\u00a0 These survivors clearly have incredible potential to change hearts and minds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m guessing that, based on the title of this post, you think I\u2019m going to talk about photographs of aborted children.\u00a0 Nope.\u00a0 I\u2019m going to talk about the living faces of aborted children.\u00a0 They wield an incredible power all their own. 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