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The abortion survivor whose mum thought she was dead
When Melissa Ohden was 14 she learned a shocking secret - her mother had tried to abort her. She was saved by a nurse who heard her crying as she lay among medical waste at a US hospital.
She tells Victoria the story of her survival, and of the mother who thought she was dead.
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