Abortion survivor Melissa Ohden was excited by the passage of the Born-Alive Act, but 'disturbed' by Democrats' partisanship on an issue she calls 'common sense.'
Abortion survivor Melissa Ohden was excited by the passage of the Born-Alive Act, but "disturbed" by Democrats' partisanship on an issue she calls "common sense."
"It's almost indescribable for me to say what that's like to see the people who are in opposition of truly who I am and what I have suffered and the population I serve – what they're still suffering today," said Melissa Ohden, the founder of the Abortion Survivors Network, an advocacy organization that offers support to people who survive abortions.in 1977. She said her birth mother's family pressured her to undergo the procedure.
Despite demands from her own grandmother to leave her to die in the hospital, Ohden said a brave nurse rushed her to the neonatal intensive care unit for treatment. The House passed the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act on Wednesday, which would require doctors to provide immediate medical attention for babies born alive after an attempted abortion. Federal law already requires that an infant who survives an attempted abortion receive medical care.
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