{"id":98029,"date":"2016-08-01T15:12:30","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T19:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=98029"},"modified":"2016-08-01T15:28:19","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T19:28:19","slug":"nurse-26-week-old-baby-who-survived-abortion-was-left-to-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/nurse-26-week-old-baby-who-survived-abortion-was-left-to-die\/","title":{"rendered":"Nurse: 26-week-old infant who survived an abortion was left to die"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jill Stanek, the nurse who cradled a 21-week-old baby who was born alive after an abortion and left to die, went on to testify in support of the Federal Born-Alive Infants Protection Act.<\/p>\n

Stanek was contacted by nurses who had also witnessed children born alive after abortions, and each of them wanted to share their experience. One nurse wrote to Stanek <\/a>and shared\u00a0that she tried to save an\u00a0infant, who had already turned blue due to a lack of oxygen:<\/p>\n

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I, too, witnessed a similar incident during one very long night shift in the emergency room. We were summoned to get a \u2018pregnant woman in distress\u2019 out of her car. The first to arrive was a paramedic, who reported hearing a little cry as she approached.<\/p>\n

She tried to give the baby rescue breaths, but a new infant can\u2019t tolerate more than a couple minutes without oxygen before permanent brain damage occurs, as you know. By the time we got the infant inside, she was already cyanotic [blue] and, with the parents\u2019 urging, the ER doc pronounced her [dead] almost immediately.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The hospital staff turned their attention to the mother, and this nurse attempted to comfort the woman who had just lost her child. However, the nurse soon realized that the mother didn\u2019t want any comforting. The nurse sensed that something was off.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen the mom\u2019s \u2018primary physician\u2019 arrived on scene, we all realized what was going on \u2013 that it was, in fact, an abortion,\u201d said the nurse. \u201cThis was a perfectly formed 26-week baby. Someone laid her on a table. As soon as I saw her I nearly fell apart. The image of that beautiful, fully formed, perfect little infant haunts me to this day. I\u2019ve seen it in my sleep. I\u2019ve seen it every time I see a pregnant woman.\u201d<\/p>\n

The child had likely been the victim of a late-term induction abortion. Induction abortions are usually performed during the third trimester at 25 weeks gestation and later. During an induction abortion, as described in this video by former abortionist Dr. Anthony Levatino, the abortionist injects a lethal dose of digoxin into the preborn child in order to cause fetal cardiac arrest.<\/p>\n

The abortionist than begins to dilate the cervix and a few days later the woman will give birth to a dead baby. However, in many cases, such as this one, the baby survives the attempt on its life and is born alive.<\/p>\n