Advancing Life and Liberty Through Action
Jan 21, 2025
Ruth was a 19-year-old college student under intense pressure from her mom, a prominent nurse in their community, to have a saline abortion administered by her abortionist colleague.
“This procedure involved injecting a toxic salt solution into the amniotic fluid meant to protect my fragile body, to poison and scald me to death. I soaked in that toxic solution for five days as they tried time and time again to induce Ruth’s labor with me,” says Melissa Ohden, who was born alive.
“I don’t believe God originally wrote abortion into my life, as God is the Creator of Life, but when it was introduced by man, or in my case, a woman, He rewrote the story of my life around it, to create the story of a life that is more intricate, more redemptive, more grace-filled, than anything anyone else could have planned or written,” Melissa says.
On Friday, Melissa will be part of a reception at our Ministry Center on Capitol Hill after the March for Life. Our team is working to amplify her voice alongside your voice in the halls of Congress urging our legislators to pass the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Act (Born Alive Act).
Melissa miraculously survived a saline abortion and now, as the founder of The Abortion Survivors Network, helps to protect others like her. She says:
When I was finally expelled from the womb on that fifth day of the abortion procedure, my arrival into this world was not so much a birth, but an accident, a “live birth” after a saline infusion abortion. My medical records actually state.
“A saline infusion for an abortion was done, but was unsuccessful.”
Even after surviving the concentrated saline, Melissa was not out of the threat of danger. The birth and leading up to it had been so stressful on her tiny body that she faced a second hurdle to survive.
My medical records reflect that the doctors initially suspected I had a fatal heart defect due to high levels of fetal distress. My grandmother demanded that I be left to die, but I am grateful for the NICU nurse working that day who was unwilling to do as she was told, and rushed me to the NICU.
That brave nurse defying the orders of a head nurse is the only reason Melissa is alive today. The very ones who should be protecting Melissa were pushing for her death.
Now, as a part of her ministry, Melissa is in contact with more than 675 abortion survivors — and counting.
Urge Congress to protect babies who are born alive by passing the Born Alive Act (HR 21 and S 6).
Some babies are born alive for the purpose of harvesting their organs to sell them to research labs.
The Center for Medical Research uncovered a report on up to 2,500 aborted babies from a Planned Parenthood clinic. The report refers to “viable nonanomalous” babies (healthy babies who are able to live outside the womb). Organs are collected from these babies up to “23 weeks gestational age from subjects undergoing elective surgical pregnancy termination at Planned Parenthood in San Diego.”
The majority of healthy infants born at 23 weeks can survive with modern medical care OUTSIDE THE WOMB!
As little as 50 micrograms of misoprostol will induce labor within four hours. To abort these babies for their study, Planned Parenthood recommended 400-800 micrograms (8-16x the necessary amount) for these late-term “dilation and evacuation” abortions.
This “study” demands that the clinic check for a heartbeat before the abortion. It requires “evidence of fetal heart activity by ultrasound immediately prior to the dilatation and evacuation procedure.”
With the age of the baby, the excessive drugs, and the heartbeat just before delivery, the likelihood of a live baby being delivered for these experiments is very high.
“Planned Parenthood’s use of heavy doses of a labor contraction drug to dilate pregnant women targeted for a viable fetus harvesting project means these are likely not standard ‘dismemberment’ abortions, but either intact partial-birth abortions or full delivery of live preemies,” confirms David Daleiden, founder and president of The Center for Medical Progress.
This is part of a 10-year study, which is now in its seventh year! Urge Congress to stop infanticide and pass the Born Alive Act.
Planned Parenthood has about 600 facilities nationwide.
This is sickening and outrageous! Send an urgent message to demand Congress pass the Born Alive Act. A vote is expected this week in both chambers.
An average of 2,983 babies are killed every day by abortion in the United States. Roughly 300 of them are in the second or third trimester.
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Sources:
“BREAKING: ‘Viable Nonanomalous’ 6-Month-Old Fetuses Sold from Planned Parenthood Abortions to University of California, New Documents Show.” The Center for Medical Progress, November 21, 2024. Centerformedicalprogress.org/2024/11/breaking-viable-nonanomalous-6-month-old-fetuses-sold-from-planned-parenthood-abortions-to-university-of-california-new-documents-show/.
“Charted: Abortion Numbers in the US, Post-Roe.” Advisory Board, August 12, 2024. Advisory.com/daily-briefing/2024/08/12/abortion-increase.
“Melissa’s Story.” The Abortion Survivors Network, October 13, 2024. Abortionsurvivors.org/melissas-story/.