Posted on 12/01/2001 6:22:38 PM PST by JMJ333
Nurse Jill Stanek made a shocking discovery when she moved from the cardiac unit to labor and delivery at Christ Hospital and Medical Center in Oak Lawn, Ill., a Chicago Suburb: The Christian hospital, affiliated with the United Church of Christ and the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, performed abortions.
Her dismay increased in 1999 when she learned the hospital did an abortion procedure that induces labor early and sometimes results in live births of late-term babies--infants that were left to die, sometimes surviving for as long as an hour.
Stanek has testified twice before congress about the labor-induction abortion used at Christ Hospital and other hospitals too. On Aug. 31, she was fired from her job. The hospital says Stanek's claims are untrue and unsubstantiated, and that patients receive compassionate care.
Our Sunday Visitor [OSV]talked to Stanek about the cruelty of the procedure and legislative efforts to protect infants who survive the procedure.
OSV: Tell us about the experience you had at Christ Hospital with a baby aborted through labor induction.
Jill Stanek: There was a baby with Down's Syndrome who had been aborted, and one of the nurses was carrying him to a soiled utility room. She said she didn't have time to hold him. I told her I wouldn't let the baby die alone. I held the baby for 45 minutes. I thought, this is insane. This can't be happening.
The baby was brought to the room to die. There was no medical intervention. I could see when his heart stopped beating. His skin was thin; I held the baby up to the light to check on the heart.
OSV: What was the policy on abortion at the hospital?
Stanek: Abortion could be used on babies for non-fatal diseases such as Down's Syndrome and Spina Bifida, as well as for the life and health of the mother.
OSV:That was changed after you caused a stir?
Stanek: Yes. You couldn't abort for nonfatal illness, but you can still abort in the event of rape or incest. They had been planning on adopting an abortion policy that would have included babies with cystic fibrosis, HIV, and mild retardation. They pulled back after my experiences at the hospital were reported by newspapers.
OSV:How does the labor-induction work, and why would a hospital choose to adopt such a procedure?
Stanek: You insert a medication into the birth canal that irritates the cervix. The baby is still small, maybe 1 pound to 2 pounds. The baby falls right out of the uterus.
We know babies can feel pain at 20 weeks. How would you like not to be able to breathe?
OSV:What did you do after you had held the dying baby?
Stanek: I decided I had to do something. I prayed. I read Proverbs 24:11-12; "You will rescue those who are unjustly sentenced to die. Don't stand back and let them die. Don't disclaim responsibility." I decided to stay and fight it.
I wrote a letter to the hospital administrators. I believed they didn't know what was going on. They called themselves "Christians". They called a meeting with me and said I might be better off at a hospital that shared my convictions.
I was meeting with my pastor, and he told the hospital that if they didn't change the policy, we would alert anyone who would listen to what they were doing. So, in July 1999, we wrote a letter to 70 pro-life churches and organizations in the Chicago area and nationwide.
OSV:You also eventuall testified before congress. What did you say?
Stanek: I talked about my experience at holding the baby. I was told I could also tell what others had told me. A nurse had told me about a baby they thought that had spina bifida. That's what they thought because of the ultrasound. It turned out it was an incomplete twin in the placenta. They aborted a healthy baby.
I told about how aborted babies were left naked on a weigh scale and metal counter. I talked about how a baby had been wrapped in a towel, and the cleaning lady accidentally put it in the garbage. The baby fell out on the floor when they were looking through it.
OSV:When you look back at your experiences, how do you view it?
Stanek: I look back on it as obedience to God. I wouldn't have had it any other way. I'm 45 years old. I've done enough wrong things in my life to know that even though people might not know you've done something wrong, you feel so bad about yourself if you don't do the right thing. I did it for Christ.
I think the name of the hospital can't be overlooked. God has chosen this hospital. The name of his son has been dishonored.
You are so right. We have fallen asleep...while our children are killed.
The Lord's heart certainly breaks as He watches this. I'm at a loss for words.
No, it's not up to me...but that doesn't mean the American people have to subsidize those births with welfare money. Fortunately, it's up to the Constitution, strictly constructed, meaning no general welfare clause or interstate commerce clause shennanigans, that welfare programs shouldn't exist. Makes the situation nicely. Thank God for limited government and the Tenth Amendment!
The people who do this are the same ones who cry big crocodile tears when enemy terrorists are killed by our forces and when criminals are executed for their crimes. Talk about the ultimate in hypocrisy. They are truly sick bastards.
When a baby is horribly disfigured and/or badly retarded they whisk the baby away after birth without letting the mother see it, then lay it aside to die knowing that babies that are that bad usually die within an hour. They tell the mother it was a still birth. Sometimes the baby refuses to die. When that happens they ship it to a sanitorium and warehouse it there untill it dies at some point in the future.
Cruel and inhuman indeed, but meant to save the mother the grief of having to see such an ugly sight on what should be the happiest day of her life. I imagine ultrasounds and the recent practice of letting the mother hold the still birth have thrown a curve to this whole practice but I'm sure it still goes on.
Here's one from the Divine Mercy:
Eternal Father, I offer you the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity, of your dearly beloved Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, in atonement for our sins, and those of the whole world. For the sake of his sorrowful passion--have mercy on us and on the whole world!
No, it means that at the heart of medicine and law in America is an hypocrisy so vile that to prosecute a woman that kills her neonate is a double standard since the doctors are allowed to do it at their whim if in a hospital setting. Once the liberal puke-faced judges commit such atrocious duplicity as to condemn a woman for these vile acts you mention yet ignore 'for societal engineering purposes' the 'doctors' who do the same and worse, the judicial process is a farce. This is the demonic harvest predicted by some when Roe v Wade was decided as it was by the leftists bastards that sat that unconstitutional court in 1973, may they rot in Hell, those that wrote in support/concurrence with the sick excuse for a chief justice.
I am the grandmother of a Down's boy, and he is in no way handicapped, or disabled. He is now 4 years old and very bright, because we do not treat him as if he has a problem, we expect him to learn and to be the best he can be, just like any other child. He is the light of my life and "IF" I could I would not reverse the situation. I was belssed with a son who died at age 24 after 8 years and 8 brain tumor operations. He too was bright, and "IF" I could I would not bring him back, but our Lord blessed us with this little grandson to fill the void. When he was born I told his parents how bless they were to be chosen by our Lord to take care of HIS little soul, that HE gave them this boy because HE knew they could handle the job, they were hand picked.
I never look at people with disablilties as being a problem, only opportunities for me to learn from them and serve.
Downs Syndrome is not a disablity, we are blessed for their being alive.
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