After Melissa Ohden was born alive following an intended saline abortion, she was left alone to die — until a nurse took pity on her. Abortion survivors are speaking up. So are clinic workers and undercover journalists, like my client, Sandra Merritt.

Now we have the opportunity to stop infanticide. Last week, the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act gained some steam in the Senate.

There was no law that compelled anyone to help Melissa. And no law protects newborns who survive abortion like Melissa.

It is time for infanticide to end in America.

Newborn babies can’t fight this on their own. Their voices are being drowned in trash cans or buckets of saline solution in dark rooms where no one can hear — or help — them. We must speak for them.

That’s why they need YOU to be the hero to save these lives.

The U.S. Senate just skipped the committee process and invoked Rule 14, which means the Born Alive Act can be voted on AT ANY TIME. YOU CAN MAKE A HUGE DIFFERENCE! Fax as many members of the Senate as possible right now. — Your Faith & Liberty team

“Throughout the course of a 5-day period,” Melissa testified, “I endured the deliverance of this saline solution into the fluid around me, breathing it in through my nose and mouth, while numerous rounds of Pitocin were delivered to my mother, to induce labor, and ultimately dispel my dead body from her womb.”

Delivered on the fifth day, “I was believed to be dead ... but I was alive.” Melissa defied expectations — just by staying alive.

But even that was not enough. Melissa was born at 8 months’ gestation. She weighed only 3 pounds. Abandoned to die, Melissa’s little body was placed in a “medical waste” container. Her birth mother didn’t even know her baby had survived, and finding out decades later was a serious shock.

Melissa later learned her grandmother held a high-level position at the hospital and pressured Melissa’s mother to go through with the abortion. This grandmother openly discussed with her family members that she was the one who told her co-workers to “leave the baby in the room to die.”

And that is exactly what was happening when a nurse heard baby Melissa’s weak cries and found her because of slight movements among what was designated as trash.

That nurse raced to get Melissa to an intensive care unit. And thanks to her intervention, Melissa survived and thrived in an adopted family.

Babies who survive these horrific procedures deserve the chance to live.

Send a flood of faxes to the Senate to pass the Born Alive Act.

We now have an opportunity to pass the Born Alive Act. Urge every member of the Senate to support this bill with your critical faxes protecting the lives of newborn babies!

Planned Parenthood has been pushing infanticide for years. Shockingly, we are seeing this radical and horrific belief become increasingly promoted. The despicable murders of newborns who survived abortion have been happening for decades. The sales of their body parts go back to at least 1999, when brochures were produced with specific pricing on arms, legs, heads and whole bodies.

For children who are earmarked for abortion, lawyers from the California attorney general’s office let slip during their case against my client Sandra Merritt that infanticide is acceptable — even legal — in the state of California!

This shift in our nation explains why, when Sandra Merritt brought proof of infanticide, the California AG’s office (Kamala Harris and Xavier Becerra) refused to prosecute Planned Parenthood for infanticide. This case demonstrates why the Born Alive Act is so critically important. We urgently need a nationwide ban on infanticide that includes punishment for those who neglect, abuse or murder newborn babies.

The Born Alive Act is the best way — perhaps the only way — that we can protect these newborn babies. Those who should be protecting them have proven repeatedly that they will not lift a finger to help.

Last week, Senators James Lankford (R-OK) and John Thune (R-SD) introduced the Born Alive Act in the Senate. The bill passed in the House in January. With Rule 14 at play in the Senate, this bill can be voted on at any time.

We urge you to make your voice heard in this battle for these innocent children. Click the button below to fax Congress. Send an urgent fax to the Senate demanding this practice end.

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Sources:

Eley, Adam, and Jo Adnitt. “The Failed Abortion Survivor Whose Mum Thought She Was Dead.” BBC News, June 5, 2018. Bbc.com/news/health-44357373.

Ertelt, Steven. “1,270 Babies Born Alive after Failed Abortions in the U.S.” LifeNews.com, April 5, 2013. Lifenews.com/2013/04/05/1270-babies-born-alive-after-failed-abortions-in-the-united-states/.

“Hearing on Abortion Rights and Proposed Legislation.” C-SPAN, June 16, 2021. (Time Code start – 46:08 and 1:22:50). C-span.org/video/?512669-1/hearing-abortion-rights-proposed-legislation.

“Melissa Ohden.” Life Institute. Accessed February 7, 2023. Thelifeinstitute.net/learning-centre/abortion-facts/survivors/melissa-ohden#.