Florida woman says she’s abortion survivor Ron DeSantis named at Republican debate: ‘Miracle to be alive’By Josh Christenson
August 31, 2023
A Florida woman says she was the abortion survivor name-checked by Sunshine State Gov. Ron DeSantis during last week’s first Republican primary debate after left-wing critics cast doubt on the story.
“I know a lady in Florida named Penny,” DeSantis, 44, said in response to a question about having signed a six-week abortion ban into law. “She survived multiple abortion attempts. She was left discarded in a pan. Fortunately, her grandmother saved her and brought her to a different hospital.”
Miriam “Penny” Hopper, 67, has since come forward to claim she lived despite being subjected to repeated attempts to abort her in 1955 — even being left “in a bedpan on the back porch of the clinic” where her mother tried to terminate the pregnancy after 23 weeks due to complications.
A doctor had been unable to detect a fetal heartbeat and induced the abortion by giving Hopper’s mother a shot, later telling a nurse to “discard the baby dead or alive,” according to Hopper’s own testimony in an ad by pro-life group Faces of Choice.
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https://nypost.com/2023/08/31/florida-woman-says-she-was-the-abortion-survivor-that-desantis-brought-up-at-republican-debate/
