Sep 24, 2008 ... A new ad by an anti-Obama group calling itself BornAliveTruth.org features  Gianna Jessen, who says that she was "born 31 years ago after a failed abortion.  ... Jessen's life would have been protected under Illinois law with or without any  of the "born alive" bills Obama opposed in 2001, 2002 and 2003.
Oct 9, 2008 ... The group's ad shows a young woman, Gianna Jessen, looking directly at the  camera and saying the following: "Can you imagine not giving babies their basic  human rights, no matter how they entered our world? My name's Gianna Jessen,  born 31 years ago after a failed abortion. But if Barack Obama had ...
Gianna Jessen (born April 6, 1977) is an American pro-life and disability rights  activist. She is a survivor of a failed saline abortion attempt. Contents. [hide]. 1  Early life; 2 Career. 2.1 1990s; 2.2 2000s; 2.3 2010s. 3 See also; 4 References; 5  External links. Early life[edit]. Jessen was born April 6, 1977 in Los Angeles, ...
Aug 24, 2012 ... During his time in the Illinois Senate, Obama voted against the Born Alive Act, a  bill that requires doctors to give care to babies who survive abortions. ... dead that  in fact they would then have to call in a second physician to monitor and check off  and make sure that this is not a live child that could be saved?
Sep 26, 2016 ... “Many Americans have no idea that babies can even live through abortions and  are often left to die, but this does happen,” Gianna Jessen, 39, said at the hearing . “I know ... President Barack Obama's administration “strongly opposes” the  passage of this bill, according to a statement from September 2015.
Barack Obama opposed a bill that would have saved Gianna Jessen's life.