13 Oct Botched Abortion Survivor Goes On 17-Year Mission To Find Her Birth Mother

Unwanted pregnancies cast a shadow over many women’s lives, especially if they end in abortion. Regardless of whether or not a woman is religious, the decision to have a termination can weigh heavily on her conscience for the rest of her life.

The legal time when an abortion can be carried out varies from state to state, but the later a termination is performed the higher the chances are that a foetus will be born alive. Abortions in the third trimester are almost universally illegal for this reason.

So when Melissa Ohden’s mom was forced into having an abortion when she was eight months pregnant, the chances of her being born alive were incredibly high. However, the fact that she was not left to die was nothing short of a miracle.

After Melissa’s mom’s late-term abortion in 1977, she was placed in a medical waste bin. But sheer chance led to a nurse hearing her crying and realizing that she was still alive. She saved Melissa’s life by rushing her to intensive care.

This nurse’s actions went against the words of Melissa’s grandmother who, horrifyingly, was also a nurse at the Missouri hospital. She had told her colleagues to “leave the baby in the room to die.”

“I discovered that my birth mother, aged 19, had been forced into the abortion by her own mother, who was an educational nurse at the hospital,” Melissa revealed in an interview with the Mail Online.

As a result of the botched saline infusion abortion, Melissa was born suffering from jaundice, respiratory distress and seizures. Doctors expected this to cause problems into her adult life, but it miraculously did not.

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