Meet the Champion Swimmer Who Lost His Legs in a ‘Botched’ Abortion

In a 2014 interview, he told SPIN.ph, “I must have been a good swimmer even in my mother’s womb because I survived the abortion. I just swam”.

They had reported that Gawilan’s mother had decided to undergo an abortion. Although Gawilan survived, his father abandoned him and his mother sadly died of cholera when he was just 5 months old.

Gawilan was subseq…