'My mother tried to abort me'

Name: 'My mother tried to abort me'
Uploaded: 2018-06-04T23:15:17.000Z
Duration: 1 min 47 s
Description: Melissa Ohden was 14 when she learned she survived a failed abortion.

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When Melissa Ohden, a pro-life campaigner, was 14 she learned a shocking secret - her mother had tried to abort her.

But lying discarded as medical waste at a US hospital, a nurse saved her life.

Watch the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News Channel in the UK.

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5 June 2018