Melissa was engaging, and dynamic. Her story is compelling and hard to forget. She took the time to hear us and understand our mission and our audience. She is brilliant and confident. She pays attention to the unique needs of the audience. We reached our fundraising goal and would highly recommend her.FIVE STARS *****
Melissa Ohden
Inspiring the culture to see that where there is life, there is hope.
Melissa Ohden
Biography
Melissa Ohden is a sought-after speaker, author, and advocate. Melissa's experience surviving a saline infusion abortion procedure is nothing short of miraculous. Still, it's what God has continued to do in her life, and she opened her eyes and heart to it, which continues to inspire, heal, and even convert pro-choice individuals to pro-life. From giving birth to her oldest daughter in the hospital where she was "accidentally" delivered alive to forgiving her birth mother and establishing a relationship with her, Melissa reaches audiences with a message that they can relate to.
Melissa is the Founder & CEO of The Abortion Survivors Network and, the author of the award-winning memoir You Carried Me: A Daughter's Memoir and co-author of Abortion Survivors Break Their Silence.
Melissa is an internationally recognized expert on abortion survivors and is a frequent contributor to news outlets worldwide, including EWTN, Focus on the Family, Hannity, Fox News, Newsmax, the Daily Wire, Real Clear Politics, and countless more. She is featured in numerous documentaries and public campaigns to change hearts and minds on abortion, including Divided Hearts of America with Benjamin Watson, Almost Aborted with Students for Life, and Face to Face with Live Action.
Melissa Ohden
Featured Books
Abortion Survivors Break Their Silence
by Melissa Ohden
How many survivors will it take for us to see the life behind the abortion?
Today’s culture would have us believe that abortion is simply a choice, a right, a controversial argument, and a religious and political issue of pro-life vs. pro-choice. It has become easy to think of the unborn as disposable products of conception―medical waste. But all of that changes when that “product of conception” defies the odds and arrives into this world as a living, breathing human being.
In Abortion Survivors Break Their Silence, we hear the true stories of abortion survivors whose resilience and courage humanize this discussion of “choice” and life emerging from the womb. They are flesh and blood people who, against all odds, survived abortion attempts and have dramatic, touching stories of their own. These stories often begin in shame and secret, but emerge to become inspiring dramas of hope, love, and forgiveness.
This book includes
- Stories of ten abortion survivors
- A compassionate look into the pressures many women feel to abort
- Accounts of medical personnel who worked in the abortion industry
Abortion Survivors Break Their Silence stirs the heart, challenges readers, and humanizes the sanctity of life in concrete and transformational ways.
You Carried Me: A Daughter's Memoir
by Melissa Ohden
What happens when an abortion survivor finds her birth mother, who never knew her daughter was alive? Now in paperback with a new epilogue by Melissa Ohden and her birth mother.
Winner, 2018 Christianity Today Book Award, CT Women
Silver Medal Winner, 2018 Illumination Book Awards, Biography & Memoir
Melissa Ohden is fourteen when she learns she is the survivor of a botched abortion. In this intimate memoir she details for the first time her search for her biological parents, and her own journey from anger and shame to faith and empowerment.
After a decade-long search Melissa finally locates her birth father and writes to extend forgiveness, only to learn that he has died without answering her burning questions. Melissa becomes a mother herself in the very hospital where she was aborted. This experience transforms her attitude toward women who have had abortions, as does the miscarriage of her only son and the birth of a second daughter with complex health issues. But could anything prepare her for the day she finally meets her birth mother and hears her side of their story?
This intensely personal story of love and redemption illumines the powerful bond between mother and child that can overcome all odds.
Melissa Ohden
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