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The first six years of Micaella Clay’s life were spent in the foster care system. She didn’t have a name or a birth date. She remembers her older brother calling her “sissy,” but had no identity of her own. Clay is an abortion survivor, born in a make-shift abortion facility on an unidentified migrant farm. Clay told Live Action News, “I was in 36 foster homes by the time I was finally adopted when I was six years old and given the name Micaella.” Throughout her young life, Clay battled with a myriad of health problems related to her heart,...

Born in 1952 in communist Hungary, Teglasy survived multiple abortion attempts on his life. Today, he is a dedicated pro-life advocate who has helped to save tens of thousands of unborn babies from abortion. Teglasy was one of 14 abortion survivors featured in the new Faces of Choice video campaign. He recently spoke with LifeNews about his miraculous survival, his relationship with his mother and his pro-life ministry in Hungary. His parents’ circumstances were extremely difficult in 1951 when he was conceived. Teglasy said his father had been a major in the Hungarian army during World War II, but when...

When she was 21 years old, Claire Culwell found out a huge secret about her past: her biological mom had tried to have an abortion when she was pregnant with Claire and her twin. While Claire’s twin didn’t survive, Claire did—and that revelation changed her life. “I knew that I couldn’t stand for what abortion does. And so, I chose to take a stance and to speak out,” she says. Listen to her interview on the podcast, or read the lightly edited transcript of our conversation, pasted below. The Daily Signal podcast is available on Ricochet,iTunes, Pippa, Google Play, or...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Carrie Yvette Fischer just moved to Colorado. She wants to work, but her mother's attempted abortion left her with facial deformities that she says make it difficult to land a job. So she reached out on Facebook to find some help and found hundreds of connections. "When I go out or when I go meet somebody I always feel like I have to warn them. I don't want to scare you when you meet me," Fischer said. Fischer and her husband Richard just moved to Colorado Springs from Houston. They're living at a hotel for now....

“The Oldenburg Baby.” That’s what the German media dubbed Tim Guido when he was accidentally born alive on July 6, 1997, at the Städtische Frauenklinik hospital in Oldenburg, Germany, after a failed abortion. Diagnosed with Down syndrome, Tim’s biological parents decided to abort him during the 25th week of pregnancy. According to Youth Defence, he was considered to be so premature that doctors didn’t think he would ever survive labor, so it is likely the abortionist never injected him with the potassium chloride that would have killed him before labor was induced. But Tim didn’t die. He was born alive...

“In a world where everyone wears a mask, it’s a privilege to see a soul.” I stumbled across this quote weeks ago, and it both struck me at the time and has stuck with me about the incredible gifts that transparency and vulnerability are in our world today. They provide a window to the soul, a connection to people, that is often sorely missing in our technologically driven, fast-paced culture. Although I share my life story in the hopes to inspire others, to shape our culture in respecting and protecting life and healing from our various emotional and spiritual wounds,...

A story almost beyond belief whose conclusion came about last May, four years after “Lil” aborted her child in the 35th week. In 2013, Lil was 18, the Daily Mail’s Sophie Williams tells us, when the young woman from inner Mongolia found out she was pregnant. She did not tell anyone until the 35th week when evidently she told her brother who then accompanied her to an unnamed abortion clinic where she “successfully” aborted. Or, so she thought. Incredibly three days later police told Lil that her baby had been saved by the maternity nurse! According to Williams Liang Xiaohua...

Abortion survivor Melissa Ohden responded to Hillary Clinton’s recent comments on abortion, calling it a contradiction for Clinton to both acknowledge the personhood of an unborn child and deny that the unborn person has any constitutional rights. Ohden’s comments were in response to an interview Clinton gave on Sunday, where the former secretary of state claimed that “The unborn person doesn’t have constitutional rights.” For Melissa Ohden, the abortion debate is personal. In August 1977, she survived a saline abortion. Five days after the attempted abortion, she was delivered prematurely to a 19-year-old single mother. The saline solution used in...

Lincoln Bain almost lost his chance at life, not once but twice when both his mother and grandmother faced the temptation to abort. Bain is an abortion survivor. In January, the Bahamas talk show host, gospel singer and minister shared his story on YouTube to teach his viewers about how every baby has a purpose in life. “This message is for someone,” Bain said in the YouTube video. “I am the product of a failed abortion, and I am still here. Listen! … God is going to make a way. God will make a way. What ever you are going...

On August 28, 2012 the Susan B. Anthony List (SBA List) announced the launch of a $150,000 television ad campaign across Missouri highlighting President Obama's extreme record on abortion and featuring abortion survivor Melissa Ohden. Missouri has recently been at the center of the conversation on abortion. "In light of the recent national discussion over abortion, it's important Americans know the President's best-kept secret: his extreme record on abortion. Melissa Ohden's powerful story draws a stark contrast to his unbending support of abortion and the abortion industry and reveals the human face to this debate." said SBA List President Marjorie...

Melissa Ohden September 15, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - How could my biological mother have ever fathomed that as she attempted to abort me in 1977 that she was not only ending the life of her child, but she was wiping out every future generation to come from that one life - her grandchildren, her great-grandchildren, her great-great grandchildren? She may not have been able to fathom it, the thousands of women who end the lives of their children everyday through abortion may not be able to fathom it, but as an abortion survivor now pregnant with my second child, I can...

I have posted the following bio of Gianna Jessen's survival because, although it is not a "new" story, recent events indicated it is a crucial story to revisit...MAY WE NEVER FORGET! Gianna Jessen Testimony of abortion survivor Gianna Jessen before the Constitution Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee on April 22, 1996: "My name is Gianna Jessen. I am 19 years of age. I am originally from California, but now reside in Franklin, Tennessee. I am adopted. I have cerebral palsy. My biological mother was 17 years old and seven and one-half months pregnant when she made the decision to...

Jack Kenny: Abortion survivor tells story of struggles,triumph and faith By JACK KENNY SOME KIDS don’t know when to quit. Gianna Jessen never learned how. By her own account she came into this world under extraordinary circumstances, having already suffered brain damage due to oxygen deprivation. She was diagnosed with cerebral palsy by doctors who would later be amazed that she could sit up, much less walk. At 25, she walks with a pronounced limp and admits to frequent and unexpected falls. She doesn’t mind telling audiences she has gotten rather good at it over the years. “After 25 years...

Melissa Ohden's 19 month old daughter, Olivia, was not supposed to have a chance at life because of abortion. Not because Melissa ever considered aborting her, but because Melissa, herself, was aborted at approximately 24 weeks of gestation and survived. Abortion attempt survivors, in and of themselves, are rare in our society. Having an abortion attempt survivor become a mother, herself, and speak out against the intergenerational impact of abortion, is certainly even more of a rarity. But by all appearances, Melissa is up for the challenge that faces her in her ministry. "It's my calling," states Melissa. "This...

About 500 people Sunday heard a series of speakers, including one who survived an abortion procedure, say it is time anti-abortion Siouxlanders took firmer actions to change the societal tide of acceptance for abortion. Held to coincide with the January 1973 Roe V. Wade Supreme Court decision affirming a woman's right to seek an abortion, speakers at the Siouxland Pro-Life Interfaith Prayer Service at Central Baptist Church said more than 50 million people have been lost through the choice of abortion. A series of people, from age 36 on down to a 1-year-old carried by a woman, moved to the...

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A leading pro-life group for youth is launching a new national project to bring the pro-life messages to churches across the country. Stand True Ministries, which sponsors the day of silence for the unborn featuring red tape and armbands, is behind the Abortion Survivor Sunday event.A large percentage of churches nationwide have one or two Sundays a year where teenagers are allowed to lead the service or a Sunday School class.The idea behind the event is to infuse pro-life themes into those services or classes."We think the Sunday before the anniversary of the decriminalization of...

What an amazing story here form an extraordinary young woman! God bless her!

Jodie Percival, 25, of Nottinghamshire, England, and her fiancée decided on an abortion when a test eight weeks into her pregnancy revealed the baby would have inherited a serious kidney ailment, multicystic dysplastic kidneys. Her first son had died of the condition, and her second has just one kidney. Almost three months later, Percival learned she was still pregnant. Another test confirmed the kidney problems, but doctors said the baby was likely to survive, so the couple chose to give it a chance. Finley, was born three weeks premature and has minor kidney damage, but is expected to be fine.“Abortion...

England is abuzz about "The Boy Who Lived," and no, his name isn't Harry Potter, but he did survive a deliberate attempt on his life. Two, in fact, while still in his mother's womb. The boy, Gabriel Jones, was the weaker twin and had an enlarged heart. Doctors told his mother that they believed he would die in the womb, and if he did, they said, that would cause his brother to die, too. The despondent mother, Rebecca Jones, agreed to terminate Gabriel to save his twin brother, Ieuan. First doctors attempted to sever his umbilical cord, but according to...

Harry Potter: The Archetype of an Abortion Survivor By Marie Peeters-Ney, MD and Philip G. Ney, M.D., M.A., FRCP(C), FRANZCP, RPsychOriginally published in Catholic Insight December 2003Republished with permission and encouragement of authors One could speak about a worldwide "Harry Potter phenomenon," appearing soon after the Pokemon craze. The object of this discussion is to reflect on the possible reasons for the remarkable popularity of Harry Potter. Can the current craze be only due to good marketing skills? Does this book have exceptional literary value? Could the book be an indicator of a deeper cultural trend?  We wish to hypothesize...