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 stor…
“I know a lady in Florida named Penny,” DeSantis, 44, said in response to a question about having. “She survived multiple abortion attempts. She was left discarded in a pan. Fortunately, her grandmother saved her and brought her to a different hospital.”
Her grandmother and aunt showed up a day later and, having found her still alive, notified police and transferred care to a hospital in Lakeland, Fla.the Associated Press: “My parents had always told me all my life, ‘You’re a miracle to be alive.’” She declined to say whether DeSantis’ campaign had been in contact with her.
Hopper also told the Associated Press: “My parents had always told me all my life, ‘You’re a miracle to be alive.’”Hopper was also featured in an ad by Faces of Choice which was shown at the 2020 March for Life in Washington, DC. Critics seized on DeSantis’ tale following the Aug. 23 debate in Milwaukee, Wis., with former Republican consultant Steve Schmidt calling it “ludicrous.”“I understand that politicians lie, but DeSantis’s story about ‘Penny,’ a woman he says survived multiple abortion attempts and was rescued from a pan by her grandmother, is just such a bizarre and impossible story, it’s stunning that any human is that gullible,” liberal journalist Jill Filipovic also tweeted.
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