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In 2010, Craig Grossi was part of a group of Marines trying to hold its ground in a small town in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. He saw Taliban rockets up close, and he saw comrades fall.
He also saw a smallish white and golden dog – a mutt with some corgi and lab features – scavenging for food in the battle zone. Grossi was impressed with the dog’s apparent smarts. He was putting up with desert heat to forage during the day, avoiding fights with other stray dogs in the battle zone, who mostly came out at night. Grossi, who always wanted a dog growing up but never had one, decided to approach the canine and offer him a stick of beef jerky.
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The most powerful stories are those that bring the hypothetical to life. In 1989, a reported 1,396,658 abortions took place within the United States. Claire Culwell may have been the only infant who survived the procedure that year. Her twin wasn’t so fortunate.
The Abortion Survivors Network reports only 365 documented cases of abortion survival in American history, though more survivors almost certainly exist. Like Culwell, many of them have grown up unaware of how they entered the world.
In her memoir, Survivor: An Abortion Survivor’s Surprising Story of Choosing Forgiveness and Finding Redemption, Culwell recounts her idyllic childhood spent in a loving adoptive family. As a young woman, she became interested in finding her biological mother, a search that would drastically change her life.