Story: The failed abortion survivor whose mum thought she was dead

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“Her mother had tried to abort her. She was saved by a nurse who heard her crying as she lay among medical waste at a US hospital.”

When she and her mother first met face-to-face, three years after they had begun emailing, Melissa was most struck by the “regret” in her mother’s eyes, which she says haunted her for some time.

Her grandmother, a supervising nurse at the hospital, had forced her mother into the abortion, and ordered no one to help her when she was born alive, then put into the trash.

“Her mother had spent over 30 years believing Melissa had died at the hospital. She carried relentless regret and guilt, but to have the opportunity to learn that not only is her child alive, but she loves her and has forgiven her; the meeting was a beautiful part of the healing process.” (This last quote from article at Pro Life - Mom Thinks Baby Died After Abortion—30 Years Later, She Meets the Daughter Who Survived - Save the Storks )


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Melissa gave birth to her oldest child Olivia in the same hospital where she survived her mother’s abortion. (Photo and caption from an article on this in the UK newspaper, “The Daily Mail.”)
 
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Are the mom and the daughter active in the pro life movement?
 
She does not go to the public with her daughter.
Maybe for obvious reasons: she will have the bad role, and for privacy reasons: members of her family would be exposed, including her own mother who forced her into abortion.

I have found no information if the mother is opposed to abortion in general (and not only forced one) or if she is active in pro life movement. She can do it discreetly, but we cannot know.
 
If what her daughter says is true, she was a victim and would not be blamed. She said she was lied to and forced to kill a baby. Her testimony of not just her daughter but her grandchildren would be incredibly moving and productive.
 
It would be, but it will placed the grandmother - the one who want the born-alive baby dead- in a difficult public position.

Everyone is not militant.
 
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What a powerful story. Forced abortion was common in many circles during the 80’s.
 
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The daughter is a well-known activist in the pro-life movement with her testimony.
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Any time now, I expect that we will start seeing some of the children born as a consequence Operation Rescue, who are mostly in their late 20s to early 30s now, start speaking up.

Most, I assume, will never find out . . . but I recall my girlfriend in college recounting one of her high school friends making a casual remark to her mother about abortion if needed, and her mother turning pale, stomping the brakes, and then explaining that if she had thought that way when she was pregnant before the wedding . . .

These are powerful voices, as was the man with Downs who testified to Congress that his life has value . . .
 
Do you have any name of a child born as a consequence of OR that start speaking up?

I have Nick Canon and his clip in mind. He had done it to honor his mother choice for life, but I don’t know if it is conform to the true story.
 
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Do you have any name of a child born as a consequence of OR that start speaking up?
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No. But I was the attorney for a jury trial back then. I disagreed with their methods, but for any other cause, attorneys would have lined up, so I stepped in.

Four children were born to three mothers who didn’t go through with it after speaking to them.

Most got convicted (I got acquittals on something like two trespassing counts), but by the time we were done, the judge had changed from skeptic/hostile to letting them have non-probation sentences of community service–which could, over the prosecutor’s objections, be at pro-life organizations! (as long as they were legal) (she was willing to completely suspend sentence as part of probation, but they/we all knew they were going to offend again 🤣).

Actually, I was called in and asked to take the next group, too, due to “issues” with the attorney. I pointed out to the judge that with those sentences, we could avoid the whole trial . . .
 
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