Most people do not realize that sometimes abortion procedures fail are stopped or reversed,

and survivors of abortion exist. In fact, it was found out that there were 1,700 abortion survivors

in the U.S. just in 2020 using not great reporting data. So there were probably a lot more.

On today's episode,

we're going to be joined by a woman who has spent her entire life fighting for the preborn

and those who were accidentally born alive from a failed abortion. As an abortion survivor

herself, we're going to talk about how that has shaped her life, her family, and what she is doing

to advocate for other abortion survivors and help us end abortion.

Thanks for joining me today on explicitly pro-life podcast.

I'm Kristen Hawkins.

All right.

So my guest today is Melissa Oden.

I cannot believe we haven't had Melissa on the podcast.

And this morning I thought we had, but Melissa and I are here in Washington, D.C. We just got

finished with a press conference in the U.S. Senate. And I decided we want to talk to my friend

Melissa. She's the founder of the Abortion Survivors Network. She failed infused saline abortion. And I thought we had already talked before on Exquisitely Probably

Podcasts because, of course, we love abortion Survivors Network. It's a critical organization

within our movement. It's one of our accelerated organizations that students for life,

meaning we just want to help Melissa's

organization. And then I found out that Melissa was the very first podcast that we ever recorded for

explicitly pro-life, and it didn't record. And I don't remember that. And so this whole time for four

years, I've been thinking there's a podcast with Melissa Odin talking about abortion survivors, and there

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