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By Lindsey Bever<\/strong>
\nWashington Post<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Twelve months ago, Gianna Jessen testified against Planned Parenthood, saying during a congressional hearing that her biological mother was seven and a half months pregnant when she was advised to undergo an abortion by saline \u2014 which \u201cburns the baby inside and out, blinding and suffocating the child, who is then born dead, usually within 24 hours.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cInstead of dying,\u201d Jessen said on Capitol Hill, \u201cafter 18 hours of being burned in my mother\u2019s womb, I was delivered alive in an abortion clinic in Los Angeles on April the 6th, 1977.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDoctors,\u201d she said, \u201cdid not expect me to live.\u201d Click here<\/a> to continue reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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