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politicat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-15-06 05:16 PM
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Help debunking an email - Saline abortion survivor....
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Apparently, there are people who claim to be abortion survivors, and as such, they go around the country and talk at churches to raise money for the forced-birthers. My grandmother heard this girl talking and emailed me about it, saying that she had changed her mind and wasn't going to vote at all anymore, because the rethuglicans kill people when they're adults and the democrats kill people when they're unborn. (At least she's not voting...*sigh*)

So anyway, the text from my grandmother is -

Gina's mother decided to have an abortion in her 7th month in 1977, and Gina was miraculously born alive, having survived the saline. She has cerebal palsy, but 29 years later, she barely limps and you'd never know she had it unless she told you. She wasn't supposed to live to see her first birthday, much less her 29th.

I googled this, but apparently, there's no proof other than this person's statement.

This just sounds like such utter bullshit, but I can't find anything to refute it. Unfortunately, I don't know much about post-legalization abortion history and statistics. (Pre-legalization, I know more than I want to know.)
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