{"id":213533,"date":"2019-11-06T03:10:38","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T09:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=213533"},"modified":"2019-11-04T20:07:24","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T02:07:24","slug":"abortion-survivor-left-die-23-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-survivor-left-die-23-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Nurse haunted by 23-week abortion survivor wrapped up and left to die"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/\">LifeSiteNews<\/a>) \u2013 Despite the mainstream media\u2019s insistence that infanticide is a myth, there are abundant firsthand accounts of nurses who say they personally witnessed infants deliberately left to die by hospital staff for no other reason than the fact that their mothers didn\u2019t want them.<\/p>\n<p>Jill Stanek, a former nurse and prominent pro-life blogger who is now with the Susan B. Anthony List, appeared on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/news\/the-shocking-truth-aborted-babies-are-born-alive-and-left-to-die\">last week\u2019s episode<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0<em>The Van Maren Show<\/em>\u00a0to discuss the problem of infanticide, from her personal experiences in Illinois to the experiences of other nurses and the broader political battle. During the interview, she relayed several particularly horrifying stories.<\/p>\n<p>Stanek relayed some of the experiences of Alison Baker, another nurse who has\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/commdocs.house.gov\/committees\/judiciary\/hju67226.000\/hju67226_0f.htm\">testified before Congress<\/a>\u00a0about infanticide. \u201cShe said she herself inherited a patient one time who had just delivered a baby alive,\u201d Stanek said. \u201cAnd the baby was in the soiled utility room because she didn&#8217;t want anything to do with him. And so Allison still had to care for two patients. And she would go into the mom&#8217;s room and the mom would say to her, \u2018Is he dead yet?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-video\" data-location=\"3\" data-videourl=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iSZaPdONhrE\">\n<div class=\"article-video-embed\" style=\"text-align: center;\" data-entry-id=\"iSZaPdONhrE\" data-event-type=\"Video\" data-event-play=\"Play Article Video\" data-entry-urltitle=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iSZaPdONhrE\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"entryid-iSZaPdONhrE\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iSZaPdONhrE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Another unnamed nurse told Stanek she was haunted by the case of a baby born at 23 weeks, who was considered \u201cright on that line\u201d of viability according to the medical knowledge of 1999. \u201cThe mom wasn&#8217;t gonna be able to complete her pregnancy to term,\u201d so her doctor had given her a choice of whether she wanted to \u201ctry to hold on and we&#8217;ll give you medications to try and strengthen the baby&#8217;s lungs, give the baby a fighting chance, or do you just want to abort, just want to get it over with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The mother decided, \u201cI just wanted to abort,\u201d despite the fact that the infant was \u201cshowing signs of perking up without any help,\u201d and that if she had been wanted, \u201cfour specialists from the neonatal unit would have been sent over just specifically to care for this baby.\u201d Instead, \u201cthe only people present at her delivery was my nurse friend and an OB\/GYN resident,\u201d and the child \u201cwas just kept in the department and wrapped for the two and a half hours that she lived.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tessa Longbons, a Charlotte Lozier research associate,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.republicanwhip.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Longbons-Tessa-Testimony-9.10.19-Born-Alive-Hearing.pdf\">told Congress<\/a>\u00a0in September that CDC data found 143 infant deaths from 2003 to 2014 that had been coded as induced abortion or spontaneous miscarriage, which \u201cmay be a considerable undercount\u201d as just seven states (Arizona, Florida, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Oklahoma, and Texas) have provided data on at least 160 babies to survive abortions.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>READ:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/baby-born-just-21-weeks-thriving-three-years-later\/\">Miracle: Born at 21 weeks, \u2018most premature\u2019 baby is thriving<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Republicans have proposed legislation to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/116th-congress\/senate-bill\/130\/text\">require<\/a>\u00a0abortionists to transfer infants who survive abortions to hospitals, where they would be given the same degree of care as any wanted newborn, as well as to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/news\/republicans-introduce-bill-to-require-states-to-report-when-babies-survive-abortions\">require<\/a>\u00a0states to report instances of a child being delivered alive after an attempted abortion.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats have\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/news\/house-democrats-block-vote-on-anti-infanticide-bill-for-75th-time\">repeatedly blocked<\/a>\u00a0the first of those measures; readers can\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lifepetitions.com\/petition\/tell-house-to-vote-on-born-alive-abortion-survivors-protection-act\">click here to read, sign, and share LifeSiteNews\u2019 petition<\/a>\u00a0urging the U.S. House to vote on the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.<\/p>\n<p><em>Editor&#8217;s Note: This article was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/news\/is-he-dead-yet-jill-stanek-reveals-newborns-killed-because-mom-wanted-to-get-it-over-with?utm_content=buffer6be62&amp;utm_medium=LSN%2Bbuffer&amp;utm_source=facebook&amp;utm_campaign=LSN&amp;fbclid=IwAR3DdZ3vT2zRd_p-tctcVrbDyESx6tj93V5QyOqsSBv3S3wOfebuNbAQsXQ\">originally published at LifeSiteNews<\/a> and is reprinted here with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveactionnewsonline\/\">\u201cLike\u201d Live Action News on Facebook<\/a>\u00a0for more pro-life news and commentary!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(LifeSiteNews) \u2013 Despite the mainstream media\u2019s insistence that infanticide is a myth, there are abundant firsthand accounts of nurses who say they personally witnessed infants deliberately left to die by hospital staff for no other reason than the fact that their mothers didn\u2019t want them. 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