You Carried Me A Daughter}}}s Memoir [Hardcover]

What happens when an abortion survivor finds her birth mother, who never knew her daughter was alive?

Winner,2018 Christianity Today Book Award, CT WomenSilver Medal Winner,2018 Illumination Book Awards, Biography & Memoir

Melissa Ohden is fourteenwhen 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?

This intensely personal story of love and redemptionillumines the powerful bond between mother and child that can overcome all odds.After learning of her biological mothers unsuccessful attempt to abort her,Melissa Ohden embarks on a decades-long search for answers. Despite the stable love of two adoptive parents, she wrestles with despair and the overwhelming belief that she is unwanted. The harsh ambiguity surrounding her origins haunts her; she knows nothing about the couple that wanted her gone. But as she is pursued by God, Ohden uses her testimony to comfort others, from clients at the domestic violence shelter where she works, for whom betrayal is all too familiar, to other abortion survivors. The wounds of abortion run deepfor victims, siblings, spouses, and even would-be mothers. But ultimately, Ohden shows that Christ can redeem any relationship, no matter what.--Christianity TodayVelãp