An estimated 17,000 babies have survived abortion since the U.S. Supreme Court issued its landmark Roe v. Wade decision more than 40 years ago, an expert on the issue says.
Melissa Ohden, who survived an abortion as a baby and founded the Abortion Survivors Network, revealed the statistic Wednesday and said America “has been so impacted” by the “abortion agenda” that “stories like mine” and others are “pushed under the rug by the media and everyone else.”
Ohden made the comments during the virtual Values Voter Summit.
All total, she said, an estimated 17,155 babies have survived an abortion in the United States.
“That number is … the estimated abortion survivors since Roe vs. Wade, simply based on a number that the CDC threw out a long time ago saying that they estimated about one child a day surviving an abortion. Take that throughout the course of Roe versus Wade [and it’s] 17,155.”
Ohden’s comments came the same day President Trump said he would issue an executive order protecting babies who survive an abortion. Legislation that would require medical care for such infants has failed in Congress.
“People seem to think that this legislation is not necessary and [an] executive order isn’t necessary, but I’m here to tell you that it is,” she said.
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