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Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn, Illinois, allegedly has a ‘comfort room’ for aborted babies who are born alive to die in, according to nurse Jill Stanek.
Stanek spoke about her experiences Wednesday at a hearing on the Born Alive Act in Washington, D.C.
Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn, Illinois, allegedly has a ‘comfort room’ for aborted babies who are born alive to die in, according to nurse Jill Stanek.
Stanek spoke about her experiences Wednesday at a hearing on the Born Alive Act in Washington, D.C.
The nurse explainied that while she was working at the hospital, she observed that doctors
performed “live birth abortions,” a procedure in which the doctors
perform an abortion and allow the baby to die during or after the
abortion.
Stanek explained that Christ Hospital offered “comfort care” to
babies who were born alive during these abortions, because these babies
often survived for at least two hours after they were born. The hospital
did not yet respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller News
Foundation.
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Comfort care, Stanek said, is to wrap the baby
in a blanket and keep the baby warm until the baby dies. Parents at
Christ Hospital were given the option to hold the baby as well.
“If staff did not have the time or desire to hold the baby, she was
taken to Christ Hospital’s Comfort Room, which was complete with a First
Photo machine if parents wanted professional pictures of their aborted
baby, baptismal supplies, gowns and certificates, foot printing
equipment and baby bracelets for mementos, and a rocking chair,” Stanek
explained in a testimony previously posted by the Susan B. Anthony List.
“Before the Comfort Room was established, babies were taken to the soiled utility room to die,” Stanek added in her article.
The nurse compared the care to what Democratic Virginia Gov. Ralph
Northam said in a January interview: “The infant would be delivered. The
infant would be kept comfortable. The infant would be resuscitated if
that’s what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion
would ensue between the physicians and the mother.”
Stanek also told those assembled that she once witnessed a nurse
deliver a live baby, cut the umbilical cord but fail to clamp it
(causing the baby to begin bleeding), put the baby in a bag and throw the child in the trash.
“One night, a nursing co-worker was taking a baby with Down syndrome
who had been aborted 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 said. The baby was 21 to 22 weeks old, she said.
The nurse explained that she could not bear the thought of the baby
dying alone in the soiled utility room. Stanek held the baby for the
last 45 minutes of his life, saying he was too weak to move since any
energy he had he was using to breathe.
“Toward the end, he was so quiet I could not tell if he was still
alive,” Stanek said. “I held him up to the light to see through his
chest wall whether his heart was still beating. After he was pronounced
dead, I 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.”
This incident prompted Stanek to end her employment at Christ Hospital.