HAPPY 37TH BIRTHDAY MELISSA OHDEN! [PRO LIFE QUOTE OF THE WEEK ~ SUNDAY AUGUST 24, 2014 TO SATURDAY AUGUST 30, 2014]

 

Melissa Ohden

QUOTE: I was aborted, and my body discarded... like I didn’t exist. But a nurse heard me crying... and cared enough to save my life. Many children, more than you might think, actually survive failed abortions and are born alive. I know because I’m one of them... There’s something else you may not know…when he was in the Illinois State Senate, Barack Obama voted to deny basic constitutional protections for babies born alive from a failed abortion. Not once, but four times. I know it’s by the grace of God I’m alive today, if only to ask America this question: is this the kind of leadership that will move us forward, that will discard the weakest among us? How will you answer?

AUTHOR: Melissa Ohden was born on August 29, 1977.  Medical records of her delivery at St. Luke’s Medical Center, Sioux City, Iowa, indicate that she was admitted to intensive care on that date after “Saline infusion for an abortion was done but was unsuccessful” on August 24, 1977 and a pitocin drip was started on August 27 to induce delivery. 

She was erroneously estimated by medical personnel at the time of the abortion to be about 18 weeks’ gestation, when in fact she was closer to six or seven months’ gestation. The medical staff, prompted by a nurse who heard Melissa's cries and observed her moving after the abortion, did not expect her to live due to respiratory distress and other complications.

Melissa, nonetheless, survived and was adopted.  She learned from her adoptive mother at age 14 about the circumstances of her birth and sought to retrieve her medical records, which are available along with other information on her website.  She revealed her biography publicly two years ago and has spoken to groups around the country about the value of human life.  She and her husband Ryan have a daughter, Olivia, and live in Sioux City. http://www.sba-list.org/melissa

PLEASE GO TO THIS PREVIOUS BLOG POST TO SEE AN ARTICLE BY MELISSA OHDEN.

IN LOVING MEMORY OF ONE OF THE FOUNDING FATHERS OF THE UNITED STATES, JAMES WILSON [PRO LIFE QUOTE ~ AUGUST 28, 1798]

 

James Wilson

QUOTE: With consistency, beautiful and undeviating, human life, from its commencement to its close, is protected by the common law. In the contemplation of law, life begins when the infant is first able to stir in the womb. By the law, life is protected not only from immediate destruction, but from every degree of actual violence, and, in some cases, from every degree of danger.

AUTHOR: James Wilson (September 14, 1742 – August 28, 1798) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence. Wilson was elected twice to the Continental Congress, and was a major force in drafting the United States Constitution. A leading legal theoretician, he was one of the six original justices appointed by George Washington to the Supreme Court of the United States. 

SIR GEOFFREY LAWRENCE ON THE NUREMBERG DEFENDANTS [PRO DEATH PENALTY QUOTE OF THE WEEK ~ SUNDAY AUGUST 24, 2014 TO SATURDAY AUGUST 30, 2014]

 

Geoffrey Lawrence

There were, I suppose, three possible courses: to let the atrocities which had been committed go unpunished; to put the perpetrators to death or punish them by executive action; or to try them. Which was it to be? Was it possible to let such atrocities go unpunished? Could France, could Russia, could Holland, Belgium, Norway, Czechoslovakia, Poland or Yugoslavia be expected to consent to such a course? ... It will be remembered that after the first world war alleged criminals were handed over to be tried by Germany, and what a farce that was! The majority got off and such sentences as were inflicted were derisory and were soon remitted.

—Geoffrey Lawrence

5 December 1946