Those who attended the recent National Right to Life Convention in Jacksonville, Florida, heard the first-hand account of an abortion survivor.
At this year's convention, the audience heard from many well-known speakers, including a few Republican presidential candidates. But National Right to Life (NRLC) president Carol Tobias tells OneNewsNow one of the more memorable moments was when the listeners heard from Melissa Ohden, "whose mother had tried to do a saline abortion, and Melissa survived."
In a YouTube video, Ohden shares: "I was believed to be dead. Weighing a little over two pounds, suffering from jaundice and sever respiratory distress, my future appeared to be bleak. But I was alive."
Tobias explains that "she was adopted by another family, and she now has a little girl of her own." Olivia, her daughter, was born on April 26, 2008, "at the very same hospital where my life was meant to end," the abortion survivor reports.
As Ohden spoke about how abortion impacts generations to come, the NRLC president says one reality hit her hard. "If you have an abortion, that branch of the family tree is gone forever." She admits that she "hadn't thought of the impact, even a hundred years later, of which descendents are not here because that one life didn't make it."
As for Melissa, she believes her life "was saved for a reason," and she is proud to say, "I am a survivor."
"I am proud to say that I am fulfilling the purpose that God set out for me," she adds.
Contact: Bill Bumpas
Source: OneNewsNow
