{"id":192675,"date":"2018-12-13T16:21:59","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T22:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=192675"},"modified":"2018-12-13T16:22:20","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T22:22:20","slug":"abortion-survivor-left-die-argentina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-survivor-left-die-argentina\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortion survivor left alone for hours to die in Argentina hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In a horrifying report out of Argentina<\/a>, nurses are revealing that a baby was born alive after an attempted abortion. The baby lived for hours — one nurse says as many as ten hours — but was left to die alone. Osvaldo A. Boldean writes<\/a> that this inhumane incident so affected the people who worked at Delicia Concepci\u00f3n Masvernat Hospital that “[s]even doctors… hurried over the last few days to formalize in writing their conscientious objection to the practice of abortions.”<\/p>\n

The baby was a boy, and he was laid down on a “flat” once the doctors and nurses saw he was alive. They reportedly assumed he would die quickly on his own, as he was relatively young. The mother had been approximately five months pregnant when she sought the abortion (allegedly as a result of rape), but the child was given no help from the Neonatology unit or any other medical professional at the hospital.<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0UCSF professor: Abortion survivors \u201cshould not necessarily receive\u201d medical care<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

This situation in Argentina is, tragically, not unique. Babies who would be treated and prized if they were wanted preemies are often left to die alone if an abortion attempt on them fails. Nurse Jill Stanek<\/a> saw this happen at Christ Hospital in Illinois. She testified, “It is not uncommon for a live aborted baby to linger for an hour or two or even longer. At Christ Hospital one of these babies lived for almost an entire eight-hour shift.” Watch Jill tell her story here:<\/p>\n