Woman says 'power of Christ' is reason she survived mother's abortion

Published: 2005-05-04

LAWRENCE, Kan. (CNS) -- "I was aborted and did not die." That statement might sound like a headline from a supermarket tabloid. But in the case of Gianna Jessen, 28, of Nashville, Tenn., it's true. Jessen told 500 students at the University of Kansas that her mother was seven-and-a-half-months pregnant when she went to a Los Angeles clinic for an abortion in 1977. But the saline solution injected into her mother's womb to abort the fetus somehow failed to accomplish its deadly task. "By the sheer power of Jesus Christ, I did not die that day," she said. "The medical records state that I was born during a saline solution abortion," Jessen said in a recent talk. "There's no medical explanation of why I'm here."

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