By Melissa Ohden Editor’s note. In 1977, Melissa survived a saline abortion. She will speaking at this year’s National Right to Life Convention. Please go to nrlconvention.com for information about registering. The following appeared on her Facebook page. Looking back at me on Facebook is the beautiful, smiling face of a young woman. She’s a …
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By Sarah Terzo In a letter to Rep. Trent Franks, Melissa Ohden tells her story: “In August 1977, my biological mother, a 19-year-old college student, was forced to undergo a saline infusion abortion. My medical records from St. Luke’s Hospital in Sioux City, Iowa, indicate that she was believed to be approximately 20 weeks pregnant …
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By Melissa Ohden Editor’s note. The following appeared on Melissa’s blog and is reposted with permission. Melissa, who speaks all over the world, survived a saline abortion in 1977. This is how I appeared the day I came home to my parents in October of 1977. My hair was starting to grow back after my …
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An abortion survivor testifies to House subcommittee By Melissa Ohden Editor’s note. NRL Legislative Director Jennifer Popik, JD, wrote a thorough summary of a subcommittee hearing held in the House of Representatives on June 4. The goal of subcommittee Democrats was to lament pro-life laws and celebrate abortion up until birth. However, Mrs. Ohden, an …
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By Melissa Ohden Editor’s note. This appears on Melissa’s blog. As most of you know, she survived a saline abortion in 1977. Melissa has spoken all over the world, including at many National Right to Life Conventions. As many of you may have noticed, I’ve been working at revamping The Abortion Survivors Network, and I’m …
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Founder of Abortion Survivors Network headlines MCCL’s Legislative Dinner By Paul Stark UNBORN CHILDREN targeted for abortion are too young to have a voice. But when a child miraculously survives that abortion, she can grow up to be a voice for all of them. Melissa Ohden’s birth mother underwent a coerced saline infusion abortion in …
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By Dave Andrusko I grant you no major “mainstream media” outlet, let alone the Washington Post, would ever be honest about abortion, but don’t you think describing a veteran pro-abortion propagandist as a “freelance journalist and commentator on politics, gender and culture” is just a tad disingenuous? That’s the Post’s description of Laura Bassett who …
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By Katie Franklin Physician Brent Boles is taking the internet by storm once again with a Facebook post about a pregnant patient whose chemical abortion failed to take the life of not one, but both of her unborn children. Pregnant with twins, the patient didn’t know she was expecting more than one baby until after …
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By Melissa Ohden Editor’s note. As our NRL News Today readers know, Melissa survived a 1977 saline infusion abortion. She has spoken around the world, testified in Congress, and met President Trump. The following appears on her blog and is reposted with permission. The more the U.S. culture experiences the phenomenon of increasingly aggressive abortion …
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Editor’s note. This appears on the blog of Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life. MCCL is NRLC’s state affiliate. Unborn children targeted for abortion are too young to have a voice. But when a child miraculously survives that abortion, she can grow up to be a voice for all of them. Melissa Ohden’s birth mother underwent …
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By Dave Andrusko For the last post of the day I’d like to take a look at two stories, one attempting to prove that the increase in pro-life self-identification is only an “illusion” and the other a classic case of stacking the deck in favor of refusing to treat babies who survive abortions. What did …
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By John Jalsevac February 20, 2019 — In 1977, Melissa Ohden’s then-19-year-old mother was forced to abort her baby by her own mother. She underwent a grueling five-day saline abortion. At the end of it, she delivered what doctors expected would be the dead body of her baby. Instead, Melissa was born alive. Astonishingly, however, …
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