Melissa Ohden's Moving Story Reveals Surprising Truths About Abortion

As a baby, Melissa Ohden survived a saline infusion abortion. Today, she’s uniting abortion survivors all around the world through the Abortion Survivors Network.Show more

Melissa joins us today to share her experience surviving abortion, growing up adopted, and reuniting with her biological family. She also shares surprising stories from other survivors. Find out about stopped abortions, biological trauma, and how abortion impacts the second generation of survivors.

The Abortion Survivors Network:
YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@theabortionsurvivorsnetwork
Website: https://abortionsurvivors.org/

Interested in more abortion survivor stories? Check out this episode with Robin Sertell: https://youtu.be/cK_DZ93XZ5o

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Contents:

00:00 Meet Melissa Ohden
02:20 Forced abortion
04:17 What is a saline infusion abortion?
05:11 Mom almost died
05:57 Some babies survive multiple abortion attempts
07:07 Chemical abortion story
08:54 Adoption after abortion attempt
11:17 Finding out
12:23 Sharing stories matters
15:35 What does your organization do?
17:59 Founding Abortion Survivors Network
19:48 Exciting news!
21:19 Around the world
22:38 Abortion vs. miscarriage
23:33 Meeting birthmother for 1st time
26:55 Did my baby survive?
28:56 What is a stopped abortion?
30:32 Lauren's story
33:05 Kids of survivors
34:10 Generational trauma?
37:13 Shocking stats!