Born-Alive Infanticides May be Occurring Despite Federal Law
Preventing It
by Maria Gallagher
LifeNews.com Staff Writer
February 4, 2004
Tallahassee, FL (LifeNews.com) -- A Florida pro-life group is
investigating allegations that babies are being left to die in the
state -- despite a federal law requiring medical care to be given to
them. And a nurse who drew nationwide attention to the practice says
many hospitals still may not know about the pro-life law designed to
care for the infants.
Florida Right to Life's president, Robin Hoffman, confirmed to
LifeNews.com that she has met with a Florida nurse who witnessed a
baby left to die.
"What she (the nurse) went through was horrific for her," Hoffman
said.
The infanticide practice, that some describe as a "born-alive
abortion," refers to cases when a premature baby is delivered,
sometimes following a botched abortion, and intentionally left to die.
Congress passed the Born Alive Infants Protection Act to help prevent
their deaths and require hospitals to provide such infants with proper
medical care. President Bush signed the legislation into law.
A few weeks ago, the nurse called the Florida Right to Life state
office regarding her knowledge of a "born-alive" abortion.
Hoffman says she expects the nurse to go public with her story. "What
happened to this baby, that's horrific enough. That can't be going
on," Hoffman said. "That's just wrong."
"We now know this [practice] is still continuing in Florida even
though a federal law that was signed by President Bush on August 5,
2002 outlawed this practice," Hoffman said.
"This horrific practice must not continue in our hospitals and Florida
nurses should be protected from participation," Hoffman added.
The issue of "born-alive" abortions first emerged on the national
scene when nurse Jill Stanek went public with information that the
practice was taking place at Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn, Illinois.
According to Stanek, "There is concern growing among pro-life leaders
that hospitals are unaware that the Born Alive Infants Protection Act
exists."
Stanek adds that "there is communication ongoing with government
officials on this, that if U.S. hospitals have not been notified of
the Born Alive Infants Protection Act, they should be."
"I hear from nurses in every area of the country [where] I speak or am
on the radio, that this [practice] is going on in their hospitals,"
Stanek said.
In her testimony to Congress during hearings on the legislation,
Stanek recounted her experience with a victim of these types of
infanticides.
"One night, a nursing co-worker was taking an aborted Down's Syndrome
baby who was born alive to our Soiled Utility Room because his parents
did not want to hold him, and she did not have time to hold him,"
Stanek explained
"I could not bear the thought of this suffering child dying alone in a
Soiled Utility Room, so I cradled and rocked him for the 45 minutes
that he lived. He was 21 to 22 weeks old, weighed about a pound, and
was about 10 inches long."
"He was too weak to move very much, expending any energy he had trying
to breathe," Stanek said. "Toward the end he was so quiet that I
couldn't tell if he was still alive unless I held him up to the light
to see if his heart was still beating through his chest wall.
"After he was pronounced dead, we folded his little arms across his
chest, wrapped him in a tiny shroud, and carried him to the hospital
morgue where all of our dead patients are taken," Stanek recalled.
When he signed the ban into law, President Bush said, "The Born-Alive
Infants Protection Act is a step toward the day when every child is
welcomed in life and protected in law.
"It is a step toward the day when the promises of the Declaration of
Independence will apply to everyone, not just those with the voice and
power to defend their rights."
At the time of the bill signing, Douglas Johnson, legislative director
for National Right to Life, said, "This law is badly needed, because
some people in our society have convinced themselves that some newborn
infants -- particularly those born alive during abortions, or with
handicaps -- are not really legal persons."
When the legislation was originally introduced in 2000, pro-abortion
groups attacked it.
Later, however, they toned down their rhetoric and did not actively
oppose the legislation's journey through Congress.
Stanek's story of being forced to hold a baby until the child died has
stunned a number of Congressmen, public officials, and even
journalists.
In one memorable interview, the normally talkative Bill O'Reilly, host
of Fox News' "The O'Reilly Factor," was left speechless after Stanek
described the practice of "born-alive" abortions.
Those with information about such infanticides being performed in
Florida can contact the Florida Right to Life office at 407-422-7111.
Related web sites:
Florida Right to Life - http://www.frtl.org
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Makes your stomach turn how liberal a hand doctors and scientist have
in destroying the unborn for their so called benefit to society
agenda's. 45 minutes of humanity is what the above infant got alot
more then most receive.
ABORTION
Exodus 20:13 (NRSV)
13 You shall not murder
Humm!!
Obviously that statement wasn't clear enough for some because suddenly
they came to the conclusion that the developing human being was
somehow not human and they could do what ever they liked to it even
though that developing human being had its own UNIQUE DNA and
fulfilled the definition of what a life is.
Revelation 13:7-9 (NRSV)
7 Also it was allowed to make war on the saints and to conquer them.
It was given authority over every tribe and people and language and
nation, 8 and all the inhabitants of the earth will worship it,
everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the
world in the book of life of the Lamb that was slaughtered.
9 Let anyone who has an ear listen:
Humm!!
"everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the
world" does that sound like each individual human life starts from
before he comes out or after? The whole process is human from
fertilized egg to the adult as it has been planned from the beginning.
Isaiah 41:4 (NRSV)
4 Who has performed and done this,
calling the generations from the beginning?
I, the Lord , am first, and will be with the last.
Humm!!
Calling the generations "BEFORE" they even existed because God knew
them.
Isaiah 49:5 (NRSV)
5 And now the Lord says,
who formed me in the womb to be his servant,
to bring Jacob back to him, and that Israel might be gathered to him,
for I am honoured in the sight of the Lord ,
and my God has become my strength—
Humm!!
God knew Isaiah as he was forming in the womb, that's from the very
beginning.
Isaiah 44:28 (NRSV)
28 who says of Cyrus, "He is my shepherd,
and he shall carry out all my purpose";
and who says of Jerusalem, "It shall be rebuilt,"
and of the temple, "Your foundation shall be laid."
Humm!!
Cyrus like Jesus was predicted to come into the world before they were
even born. Whose life did you kill murder, you who kills the
developing human being?
Isaiah 65:19-20 (NLT)
I will rejoice in Jerusalem and delight in my people. And the sound of
weeping and crying will be heard no more.
20 " No longer will babies die when only a few days old. No longer
will adults die before they have lived a full life. No longer will
people be considered old at one hundred! Only sinners will die that
young!
Humm!!
A life can be cut short but when Christ rule's every human being will
live out their whole lives without the murders cutting it short.
Isaiah 57:4-5 (NRSV)
4 Whom are you mocking?
Against whom do you open your mouth wide
and stick out your tongue?
Are you not children of transgression,
the offspring of deceit—
5 you that burn with lust among the oaks,
under every green tree;
you that slaughter your children in the valleys,
under the clefts of the rocks?
Humm!!
People that mock others are under the delusion that somehow they are
better than others and yet they don't repent of the evil they do
because it is acceptable to their society. What is acceptable to God
is another matter!
Isaiah 66:23-24 (NLT)
" All humanity will come to worship me from week to week and from
month to month. 24 And as they go out, they will see the dead bodies
of those who have rebelled against me. For the worms that devour them
will never die, and the fire that burns them will never go out. All
who pass by will view them with utter horror. "
You shall not murder
End times
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