Blurring the line between abortion<\/em> and infanticide<\/em> doesn’t seem to upset him, however. Or some serious infant weeping might break out over this story on the Pomegranate Apple blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Gianna Gessen: A Story About a Birth
\n \u201cTo everyone\u2019s great shock and surprise, I didn\u2019t arrive dead but alive on April the sixth 1977 in a Los Angelos county abortion clinic\u201d
\n \u201cWhat\u2019s fantastic about this, about the perfect timing of my arrival, is that the abortionist was not on duty yet. So he wasn\u2019t even given the opportunity to continue on for his plan for my life which was death.\u201d
\n \u201cSo a nurse called an ambulance and had me transferred to a hospital which is absolutely miraculous. Generally the practice at the time\u2026.and up until 2002 was to end the life of an abortion survivor by strangulation, suffocation, leaving the baby to die, or throwing the baby away.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There’s even a video to support these “extraordinary claims.”<\/p>\n

Hmm. How unconvinced am I that a full-term or close-to-full-term baby was minutes away from abortion? Quite unconvinced, to put it mildly. <\/p>\n

(I could put this more forcefully, of course, but any sane readers will be able to judge the validity of this tale for themselves.) <\/p>\n

How unconvinced am I that it was standard practice to murder babies that somehow sprang fully-viable from a botched abortion? Yet again, I have to report that this information seems so unrelated to “truth” that it may be from a different species.<\/p>\n

(I am also pretty dumbstruck by her characterising an abortion doctor as someone with a “plan for my life which was death.” )<\/p>\n

I find myself almost weeping on behalf of an absent baby Jesus at the sheer dishonest effrontery of this tale. <\/p>\n

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