Saturday, September 2, 2017

She Was Born Alive After a Failed Abortion and Gasped for Air Struggling to Breathe

She Was Born Alive After a Failed Abortion and Gasped for Air Struggling to Breathe

 NATIONAL   STEVEN ERTELT   SEP 1, 2017   |   4:43PM    WASHINGTON, DC
Tens of millions of unborn babies have been killed in abortions across the United States in the past 40 years, but she is one of the rare few who survived.
Abortion survivor Melissa Ohden was born in 1977 after a failed saline infusion abortion. She shared her story recently with The Daily News ahead of her talk at an upcoming pregnancy center fundraiser in New York.
“I truly believe in the work of the pregnancy resource center,” Ohden said. “I do believe that if my birth mother would have had resources and support provided to her like those the center provides, maybe her life and mine could have been very different.”
The purpose of an abortion is to kill an unborn child, but Ohden did not die when her mother had the abortion. Ohden said she was born alive and gasping for air at about 31 weeks gestation. A nurse disobeyed orders to let Ohden die and began providing life-saving medical care instead, according to the report.
Ohden later was adopted. She said she did not learn the truth about her birth until she was about 14 years old. She said she struggled deeply with her own self-worth when she learned that her mother tried to abort her.
More recently, Ohden said she reconnected with her birth mother and learned that she had been pressured into the abortion.
“My mother wasn’t just coerced, she was forced to have an abortion that was meant to end my life and changed her forever,” Ohden said previously. “Her greatest regret as a woman in her fifties is that she never ran away from her own family. I always have to point that out to those who are pro-abortion. Where is the empowerment in that for a women, for that to be her greatest regret?”
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Ohden now shares her story with people across the world, with legislators and skeptics, and with the other rare few who also survived failed abortion attempts.
Here’s more from the report:
“No matter what people believe about abortion, my story hits home in many different ways,” Ohden said.
She said when she first started touring with her story, people believed she was lying, though Ohden said she doesn’t hear that as much anymore.
Ohden says she enjoys hearing other people’s stories the most as she tours the country. In 2012, she founded The Abortion Survivors Network, which seeks to educate the public about failed abortions and survivors while providing emotional, mental and spiritual support to abortion survivors. Since ASN’s inception, Ohden has been in contact with 217 survivors.
Approximately 60 million unborn babies have been killed in abortions since Roe v. Wadein 1973. Stories like Ohden’s shed light on the truth that these unborn babies were not just potential lives or blobs of tissue but unique, individual human beings who deserved to live.


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Judge Blocks Texas Ban on Dismemberment Abortions Tearing Babies Limb From Limb

Judge Blocks Texas Ban on Dismemberment Abortions Tearing Babies Limb From Limb

 NATIONAL   MICAIAH BILGER   SEP 1, 2017   |   10:01AM    AUSTIN, TEXAS
In a disappointing but not wholly unexpected ruling, a liberal Texas judge blocked a law Thursday that would protect unborn babies from dismemberment abortions.
U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel blocked Texas Senate Bill 8 one day before it would have gone into effect, according to the Tribune News Service.
Signed into law earlier this summer, Texas Senate Bill 8 prohibits dismemberment abortions, a method typically used in the second trimester to kill nearly fully-formed, living unborn babies. It is a barbaric and dangerous procedure in which the unborn baby is ripped apart in the womb and pulled out in pieces while his or her heart is still beating.
Yeakel set up a 14-day temporary restraining order against enforcement of the law and scheduled another hearing for Sept. 14 to consider blocking it indefinitely, according to the report.
“The act leaves that woman and her physician with abortion procedures that are more complex, risky, expensive, difficult for many women to arrange, and often involve multi-day visits to physicians, and overnight hospital stays,” the judge wrote.
He also argued that women would “suffer irreparable harm by being unable to access the most commonly used and safest previability-second-trimester-abortion procedure,” which dismembers their unborn babies, the AP reports.
Yeakel’s ruling is not a big surprise. He is a liberal judge who often rules against pro-life legislation, according to Texas Right to Life.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said they will continue to defend the law in court, and many have strong hopes that Senate Bill 8 eventually will be upheld as constitutional.
After the ruling Thursday, Texas Right to Life issued a statement urging pro-life advocates not to despair.
“… this is the first step in a longer and consequential legal battle over this dynamic and historic legislation,” the pro-life organization said.
According to the pro-life group, Senate Bill 8 was written with the partial-birth abortion ban, which the U.S. Supreme Court upheld in 2007, in mind.
“Just like partial-birth abortions, dismemberment abortions are inhumane and gruesome acts of violence against the preborn child,” the pro-life group said in a statement.
Texas leaders are ready to defend the law – and unborn babies’ lives – all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary.
Paxton said the law protects the sanctity and dignity of human life. His lawyers argued Tuesday that the law was written specifically to stop the brutal and gruesome dismemberment of living unborn babies in Texas.
Leaders with Texas Right to Life, who attended the hearing Tuesday, explained: “The abortion industry disingenuously argued in court that the Dismemberment Abortion Ban raises an undue burden to women seeking second trimester abortions by banning all D&E abortions.  In filings and in court, the Attorney General’s office powerfully argued SB 8 clearly only prohibits one specific type of D&E abortion, which the state Legislature defined as ‘Dismemberment Abortions.’”
The legislation received strong support in the Texas legislature, and Gov. Greg Abbott signed it into law in June.
The law made Texas the eighth state to protect developing preborn children from such a heinous act. Earlier this year, Arkansas enacted the Unborn Child Protection from Dismemberment Abortion Act joining Alabama, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma and West Virginia.
The dismemberment abortion ban embodies model legislation from the National Right to Life Committee that would prohibit “dismemberment abortion,” using forceps, clamps, scissors or similar instruments on a living unborn baby to remove him or her from the womb in pieces. Such instruments typically are used in dilation and evacuation (D&E) procedures.


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Conservative Actress Julienne Davis: Hollywood Producers Told Me to “Go Back in the Closet” if I Want New Roles

Conservative Actress Julienne Davis: Hollywood Producers Told Me to “Go Back in the Closet” if I Want New Roles

 NATIONAL   CORINNE WEAVER   SEP 1, 2017   |   7:29PM    WASHINGTON, DC
It’s always been a given: Hollywood does not like or employ conservative actors or actresses. They’d prefer to pretend that group does not exist.
Actress Julienne Davis (Eyes Wide Shut) wrote an opinion piece for Fox News describing her trials as a struggling Hollywood actress who happened to be conservative. As it turns out, in a culture that screams for people to stay true to themselves, (no matter what), staying true to herself was not acceptable for Hollywood.
“Yes, hard as it is for some to believe, not everyone in the entertainment industry on the Left Coast is a left-winger,” she wrote. After “coming out of the conservative closet,” she was asked to write for a political magazine, and wrote for the publication until the magazine closed.
Davis refused to backtrack on her professed opinions, and maintained her stance on politics after the magazine closed. “Since then I haven’t fared well,” she confessed. Many of her friends “stopped calling and quietly “ghosted” me, and then later unfriended me.” But even outside of her friend circle, the actress has received so much hatred for her views. Of course, she has been called a racist, while someone even told her “he hoped I would die.”
She called Hollywood and its circles a “comfortable echo chamber.” For groups of people that believe so strongly in love and tolerance, their views on different views are “hateful and utterly rigid,” says Davis.
While people have advised her to “go back to the closet” if she wants a film made, Davis is not backing down. “There’s no going back. Wish me luck!” she said.
Hollywood needs more people like her.
LifeNews Note: Corinne Weaver writes for Newsbusters, where this originally appeared.


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