A survivor of a late-term abortion, Melissa Ohden, shared her story in an interview with The Daily Signal.
“I survived a failed saline-infusion abortion,” Ohden told senior reporter Mary Margaret Olohan on Thursday, “about four years after [1973’s] Roe v. Wade.”
“The intent of that toxic salt solution was to poison and scald me to death,” she said. “It was the most common procedure back in the ’70s … [it] involved injecting a toxic salt solution into the amniotic fluid surrounding me in the womb.”
Ohden was born in 1977, during which 1.32 million abortions occurred in the United States, in the aftermath of the Roe V. Wade ruling by the Supreme Court that made abortion legal nationwide.
Elaborating upon the saline-infusion abortion process, the survivor said, “It typically lasted about 72 hours. If the child was fortunate…