“I was traumatized and changed forever by my experience of holding a little abortion survivor for 45 minutes until he died,” says Jill Stanek, a former registered nurse for Christ Hospital and Medical Center of Oak Lawn, IL. (Lest you think the hospital is “Christian,” think again. It is part of the United Church of Christ — think Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Obama — and was pro-abortion before Roe v. Wade.)  

Jill’s testimony (who was our client) before Congress reveals an almost unspeakable horror happening in hospitals and abortion clinics across America. Living, breathing, healthy babies are surviving the abortionist’s assault, only to be left in hospital laundry rooms and trash cans to wither and die … and in some cases, to be butchered alive.

Only 18 states have laws protecting the lives of children who manage to survive abortion. In other states, it is perfectly legal to actively kill a child, or let it die, so long as the child was originally intended to be aborted. But Kamala Harris believes that allowing abortion survivors to live is “extreme.”

The U.S. Senate is currently considering HR 26 — a measure that would require the same standard of care for a baby who survived abortion that is provided to any other newborn. It is so important for you to contact the Senate today. Demand they VOTE YES on HR 26 and LET THE CHILDREN LIVE. Please fax Congress now and read Jill’s story. —Mat

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After witnessing a horrific car accident in her youth, Jill Stanek felt a calling to become a nurse. She would spend her career saving lives. Fresh out of nursing school, Jill took a job with Christ Hospital and Medical Center of Oak Lawn, IL.  

Not long after joining the maternity unit, one of Jill’s co-workers told her something unbelievable — a living, breathing, newly born baby was being sent down to the soiled laundry storage room where the child would be left alone to die.

In her testimony before Congress, Jill told the rest of the story. An abortion was performed, but the baby was born alive. Rather than treating the newborn like any other newborn, this child had been wrapped in an old towel and sent to a dirty laundry collection room to die among the soiled sheets.

“I could not bear the thought of this suffering child dying alone in a Soiled Utility Room,” Jill told the congressional panel. “So, I cradled and rocked him for the 45 minutes that he lived.”  

Had this child been born after any procedure other than an abortion, he would have been put in a warming bin, given oxygen and a chance to survive. But saving the life of children who manage to survive abortion was not hospital policy.

These children deserve to LIVE! Tell Senators to VOTE YES on HR 26 - the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.

Sickeningly, this was not an isolated incident. Jill recounted another example of a different child. Much like the baby mentioned above, this child, too, was sent to the dirty laundry room. He had been wrapped in a paper towel and left on a cold counter before his tiny body wound up in the laundry room trash can.  

In her testimony, Jill recounted another child who was aborted because doctors told the mother the baby would have spina bifida. It turned out the doctors were wrong. The child was born healthy and alive and with a perfectly intact spine. But because the baby had survived an abortion, the baby was left to die.

Another botched abortion produced a beautiful living, breathing 2-pound baby, a weight that indicated a strong ability to survive and thrive. The nurse overseeing that abortion says she is haunted “because she doesn’t know if she made a mistake by not getting that baby medical help.” But the hospital policy was simply to let children who managed to survive an abortion die.

In yet another botched abortion, a baby was born with what medical experts deemed a nearly 40% chance of surviving. In any other circumstance, Jill told Congress, “There would have been a neonatologist, pediatric resident, neonatal nurse, and respiratory therapist present for the delivery, and the baby would have been taken to our Neonatal Intensive Care Unit for specialized care.”

Instead, Jill testified that “after delivery, the baby, who showed early signs of thriving, was merely wrapped in a blanket and kept in the Labor & Delivery Department until she died 2½ hours later.”

This practice of letting children die who were born alive following an attempted abortion became so prevalent that the nurses created a “Comfort Room” to hold the babies until their last breath.

Jill desperately tried to stop this barbaric practice, but then-state Senator Barack Obama blocked the bill every time.  

In any other situation, neglecting a baby to the point of death is heinous and punishable by prison time. But because these atrocities are being committed by abortionists, in many states they are not considered a crime.

Worse yet, as our client Sandra Merritt’s undercover videos revealed, many abortionists outright murder living, breathing children, wiping the life out of their tiny newly born bodies.

In abortionist Kermit Gosnell’s case in Philadelphia, he used sharpened utility scissors to cut babies’ tiny spinal cords once they had been fully born.  

In another case, an abortion survivor was born alive in an easy chair at A Gyn Diagnostic Center of Hialeah, Florida. Undeterred by the breathing baby’s movements and cries, the clinic owner, Belkis Gonzalez, simply cut the umbilical cord and zipped the little girl into a Ziplock-like biohazard bag to suffocate her. This must STOP!

When Jill Stanek was fired for exposing the horrors at Christ Hospital, we defended her. And we continue to defend Sandra Merritt, the undercover journalist who exposed Planned Parenthood’s baby butchering crimes, from criminal prosecution and potentially 10 years in prison.  

YOUR GENEROUS SUPPORT allows us to defend women like these who expose the evil of abortion. Sandra’s case is the most expensive case in Liberty Counsel history. Please help us defend this lifesaving truth teller with your generous donation today, which will be DOUBLED IN IMPACT by a special Challenge Grant.

Mat Staver
Founder and Chairman
Liberty Counsel

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“2022 State Legislative Sessions: An Overview on Born-Alive Protections.” Family Research Council. Accessed January 25, 2023. https://www.frc.org/statelegislativeroundup/2022-state-legislative-sessions-an-overview-on-born-alive-protections.

‌“Questions and Answers on Born-Alive Abortion Survivors.” Charlotte Lozier Institute, April 12, 2021. https://lozierinstitute.org/questions-and-answers-on-born-alive-abortion-survivors/. 

‌Richard, Lawrence. “Born-Alive Act: Pelosi, Schumer Melt down after New Bill Requires Care for Babies Born during Failed Abortion.” Fox News, January 12, 2023. www.foxnews.com/politics/born-alive-act-pelosi-schumer-melt-down-new-bill-care-babies-born-abortion.

Roeser, Thomas. “Amended Abortion Policy Is Cold Comfort Nurse's Objection to Leaving Babies to Die Gets Her Fired.” Chicago Sun-Times, September 2001. https://web.archive.org/web/20140921211857/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-4609884.html. 

“Testimony from Nurse Jill L. Stanek during the Born Alive Infant Protection Act Congressional Hearings.” California Pro Life Council. Accessed January 25, 2023. www.californiaprolife.org/testimony-from-nurse-jill-l-stanek-during-the-born-alive-infant-protection-act-congressional-hearings/.