I came across an article this morning about babies who survive abortions and how they are legally treated. Here is an excerpt:
"On July 20, Allison Baker, a former employee in the Labor and Delivery Department at Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn, Ill., a suburb of Chicago, testified that she personally witnessed three babies who had been born alive during such abortions. On the first occasion, Ms. Baker said, "I happened to walk into a 'soiled utility room' and saw, lying on a medical counter, a (22-week) fetus, naked, exposed and breathing, moving its arms and legs. The fetus (she was cautious and used the medical term for a pre-born child) was visibly alive, and gasping for breath. ... I did wrap the fetus and place him in a warmer and for two-and-half hours he maintained a heartbeat, and then finally expired."
Jill Stanek, who is still employed at Christ Hospital, told the panel, "It is not uncommon for one of these live aborted babies to linger for an hour or two or even longer. ... One of them once lived for almost eight hours." She said that one night she personally rocked a 21 to 22 week infant to keep him from dying alone in the soiled utility room.
Ms. Stanek related stories she had been told by other nurses. One was haunted by the memory of attending one of these procedures where the baby "came out weighing much more than expected, almost two pounds." Another "told me about a live aborted baby who was left to die on the counter of the soiled utility room wrapped in a disposable towel. This baby was accidentally thrown into the garbage, and when they later were going through the trash to find the baby, the baby fell out of the towel and onto the floor."
Stanek was taken aback when another nurse told her about how this procedure was done on a patient who was 23-plus weeks pregnant. She told members of the committee that, according to statistics, this baby had a 39 percent chance of survival, but since the patient chose to abort there was no neonatologist, pediatric resident, neonatal nurse or respiratory therapist present for the delivery. "Instead, the only personnel present for this delivery were an obstetrical resident and my co-worker." The baby, who, according to Ms. Stanek showed early signs of thriving, was not taken to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit for specialized care, but was left to die in the Labor and Delivery Department."
Read on, if you've got the stomach: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=612
That is so sad. It really makes you think.
ReplyDeleteI have a friend that had a premature baby at 21 weeks that died about 15 years ago at a local hospital, and when she finally got the medical records she had found out that when the nurse took the baby down to the MORGUE her baby was still alive but they didn't think that the baby was "viable"! It's been happening everywhere for so long, it's really horrible!
ReplyDeleteMy mother was born prematurely, at barely 2lbs (back in the 50's, when the technology wasn't half so advanced). Nobody was sure if she'd make it. I'd like to ask these people: was she not human? If they admit these babies are human beings, they can't face themselves in the mirror. I used to think only Nazis and serial killers coul be capable of such cruelty. Anyone who could do such a thing to an innocent baby (and the politicians who refuse to protect them) has lost their humanity. They should be forced to watch these babies die before voting about them. No matter what their developmental stage, these babies are already more human than they are.
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