A Filipino man born with an underdeveloped arm and legs found his passion in the weightless ocean and went on to become an international swimming champion. Yet, it wasn’t his first experience of overcoming adversity. Thirty-year-old Ernie Gawilan, of Island Garden City in the Samal Davao region of the Philippines, survived an attempted abortion. “I don’t have fingers on my left hand, and I don’t have feet,” Ernie told The Epoch Times. “Sometimes I get hurt because I’m always bullied, but now I can use my disability to show that disability is not an obstacle to [achieving] the impossible.” Ernie said that his mother, a married woman, sought an abortion after falling pregnant by another man; the attempt to terminate the pregnancy wasn’t successful, and he was born in rural Mindanao. However, his father abandoned the family after learning the truth. Later, Ernie’s mother died of cholera when he was …