“The Reason I’m Here is Because Abortion Failed”

In July Live Action shared the story of a young man who stopped to talk with Mark Harrington of Created Equal during a campus outreach video. What he said stopped many in their tracks: his biological mother, he explained, was a drug addict who tried to abort him—once with the abortion pill, “but it was too late” —and once because she never made it to a scheduled procedure  because the money she’d set aside was stolen.

“The whole reason I’m here,” he said, “is because abortion failed.” He went on to share that he’s a Christian who believes “everyone has a right to life.”

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This story is more than a viral clip. It’s a living illustration of the message I carried to the National Right to Life Conference in my presentation, Survivors, Stories, Strength. Abortion survivors are out there, often unaware their own story is a survival story, and it takes a movement working in concert to find them, honor them, and connect them to support.

Here’s the backstory. Just before this encounter happened, I had the privilege—as I do every year—of speaking to the Created Equal interns to help equip them for exactly these kinds of outreach conversations. Created Equal’s team then did what they do best, engaging real people on real streets and capturing this young man’s testimony on video.

Live Action used its reach to carry his story to a wider audience—and pointed viewers straight to the Abortion Survivors Network for more information and support.

This is the pro-life movement functioning as it should: equipping, engaging, amplifying, and supporting. One survivor, three organizations, one shared mission—and it’s exactly why The Abortion Survivors Network exists to welcome him, and every survivor like him, home.

LifeNews Note: Melissa Ohden, who survived a saline abortion in 1977, is founder and CEO of the Abortion Survivors Network and author of “You Carried Me: A Daughter’s Memoir.” This appeared in The Hill and is reposted with the author’s permission. File photo.