YOU CARRIED ME

Description

This intensely personal story of love and redemption cuts through the debates surrounding a divisive issue.
Author has been a keynote or featured speaker at over 250 events.
Ohden’s story reads like a novel, with remarkable plot twists and unexpected revelations. Readers are left wondering what will happen to the very end.
The sensitivity with which Ohden personalizes issues such as adoption and women’s rights will appeal to readers regardless of their views.
One family’s story highlights the complexity of the issue and will leave people with more compassion for every woman impacted by abortion.
For too long the voices of women impacted by abortion have not been heard. Ohden breaks the taboo that silences too many women, empowering others to share their own stories and reclaim the narrative.
Includes new afterword by the author, revealing her mother’s identity and developments since the book was first published.
Melissa Ohden is fourteen when she learns she is the survivor of a botched abortion. In this intimate memoir she details for the first time her search for her biological parents, and her own journey from anger and shame to faith and empowerment.

After a decade-long search Melissa finally locates her birth father and writes to extend forgiveness, only to learn that he has died without answering her burning questions. Melissa becomes a mother herself in the very hospital where she was aborted. This experience transforms her attitude toward women who have had abortions, as does the miscarriage of her only son and the birth of a second daughter with complex health issues. But could anything prepare her for the day she finally meets her birth mother and hears her side of their story?