ABORTION SURVIVORS - SOME ARE LOVED AND ALLOWED TO LIVE

Abortion Survivor: Gosnell Trial Finally Highlights Babies Surviving Abortion

http://www.lifenews.com/2013/04/24/abortion-survivor-gosnell-trial-finally-higlights-babies-surviving-abortion/ 

Lifenews - Melissa Ohden - 4/24/13

The floodgates have been opened. Recently, I wrote for National Right to Life News Today about how the abortion conversation has shifted over the past forty years (http://nrlc.cc/11hjPl9). I wrote about how medical research, the revealing power of ultrasound, and the powerful experiences of post-abortive women and men have made it very difficult for abortion advocates to deny the humanity of the unborn.

My experience with survivors, however, tells me that the number is much greater than this, and even more so, that the stories of our lives and what we’ve experienced, is something that can’t be measured. Over the past 5 ½ years I have heard from or met other abortion survivors continuously. I have now been in contact with over 127 other survivors, with the majority coming from here in the U.S.

Surviving an abortion takes place much more often than what was first recognized and certainly much more often than what is reported and talked about. However, far too many survivors live their lives in fear of what the culture of death we live in says about what happened to us (it was simply a choice, we didn’t have any rights, we were not yet human). They also believe that they must be the only one, and therefore, there is no one to whom they can turn for understanding or expect to stand up with them to raise awareness to the plight of survivors.

I can’t help but think of what a difference it would make in the lives of survivors to have a more accurate picture of how many of us there actually are. I can’t help but think about what a difference it would make in our world if we had a more accurate number of survivors to focus people’s attention on.

Just as research, ultrasound, and the testimonies of post-abortive men and women have radically changed the conversation about abortion and the humanity of the unborn, I believe that the prevalence of abortion survivors, these hard and soft numbers, when it comes to the incidences of survivors in this world, have the potential to further the cause of life in the face of a culture of death.

I will be sharing more in-depth information about the lives of abortion survivors at the upcoming National Right to Life Convention in Dallas in June. Until then, could you do me a favor? Could you share the little bit about abortion survivors that I have passed along today? You never know the difference that it’s going to make in someone’s life by sharing it with them.

You never know….that very person may be a survivor themselves, or know someone who is.

LifeNews.com Note: As the survivor of a failed abortion attempt in the U.S. in 1977, Melissa Ohden now puts a face to abortion around the world, and gives a voice to the unborn children who lose their lives to abortion every day.

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