The Essential Role of Forgiveness
By Melissa Ohden
Editor’s note. Melissa, the survivor of a “failed” saline abortion
in 1977, speaks all over the world including at the last two National
Right to Life Conventions.
I had just finished a presentation at his high school recently when a
young man approached me with this painful admittance. “I feel like I’m
a bad person,” he whispered as the tears streamed down his face.
I didn’t need to guess at what might lead him to think such a thing
about himself. I had just finished speaking to the students about the
impact of abortion. But when he was finally able to slow the sobs
racking his body and explain further, I was still both surprised and
devastated.
Everyone has a story, especially when it comes to abortion and how it
has changed them personally or someone they know. In the last six
years, I have met thousands and thousands of people whose lives and
stories have touched me, changed me, and shaped the work that I do.
Yet in all those years and all those talks and all the follow up discussion, no young man’s story has affected me more. Why?
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