In 1977, in a hospital in the US state of Iowa, Melissa’s 19-year-old teenage birth mother, walked into an abortion clinic expecting to walk out with her “problem” solved. She was to undergone an abortion using a toxic saline solution over five days to end the life of her baby.
Born at eight months and weighing less than three pounds (1.3kg), Melissa was placed among medical waste., until a nurse heard her weak cries and slight movements.

Melissa was rushed to an intensive care unit, where – against the odds – she survived.
Doctors thought she would be blind, and at one stage believed she had a fatal heart defect. But she has gone on to live a perfectly healthy life, being brought up by an adoptive family.

“I grew up knowing I’d been born prematurely, that I had been adopted,”
“What I didn’t know was that there was this great secret behind all of this. That I should have been delivered dead, and instead I was born alive.” Melissa Ohden, now 41, said.

Melissa said she only found out she was an abortion survivor when her sister in her adoptive family let it slip during an argument.
“You know Melissa, at least my biological parents wanted me,” she had shouted, without thinking.
Melissa said she was totally confused, but as the realisation kicked in – and she sat down with her adoptive parents – which lead to her depression
“I turned my pain upon myself,” she explains. “It was a lonely place.

“I developed an eating disorder, struggled with alcohol abuse. I didn’t want to be me.”



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