Live-Birth Abortion

This is so unbelievable, I am linking back to the source (U.S. Government site):

http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/judiciary/hju67226.000/hju67226_0.htm#34

BORN-ALIVE INFANTS PROTECTION ACT OF 2000
HEARING
BEFORE THE
SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE CONSTITUTION
OF THECOMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARYHOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
ONE HUNDRED SIXTH CONGRESS
SECOND SESSION
ONH.R. 4292
JULY 20, 2000
Serial No. 120

STATEMENT OF JILL L. STANEK, MOKENA, IL

Ms. STANEK. My name is Jill Stanek, and I am a registered nurse who has worked in the Labor and Delivery Department at Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn, Illinois, for the past 5 years. Christ Hospital performs abortions on women in their second or even third trimesters of pregnancy. Sometimes the babies aborted are healthy, and sometimes they are not.

The method of abortion that Christ Hospital uses is called ''induced labor abortion,'' also now known as ''live-birth abortion.'' This type of abortion can be performed different ways, but the goal always is to cause a pregnant woman's cervix to open so that she will prematurely deliver a baby who dies during the birth process or soon afterward.

The way that the induced abortion is most often executed at Christ Hospital is by the physician inserting a pill called Cytotec into the birth canal close to the vagina. Cytotec irritates the cervix and stimulates it to open. When this occurs, the small, pre-term baby drops out of the uterus, often alive. It is not uncommon for a live aborted baby to linger for an hour or two or even longer. One of these babies was known to live for almost an entire 8-hour shift.

In the event that a baby is aborted alive, he or she receives no medical assessments or care, but is given only what the Christ Hospital calls ''comfort care.'' Comfort care is defined as keeping the baby warm in a blanket until he or she dies, although even this so-called compassion is not always provided. It is not required that these babies be held during their short lives.

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. 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 about 22 weeks old, weighed about a half a pound, and was about 10 inches long, about the size of my hand. He was too weak to move very much, expending any energy that he had trying to breathe. Toward the end of his life 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 little heart was still beating through his chest wall. After he was pronounced dead, we folded his little arms across his chest, tied his hands together with a string, wrapped him in a tiny shroud, and carried him to the hospital morgue where all of our other dead patients go.

The mark that this little person's untimely death left on my heart will never go away. In large part, I ended up here today because of that baby.

Other co-workers have told me upsetting stories about live aborted babies whom they have cared for. I was told about an aborted baby who was supposed to have spina bifida, but was delivered with an intact spine. Another nurse is haunted by the memory of an aborted baby who came out weighing much more than expected—almost 2 pounds. She is haunted because she doesn't know if she made a mistake by not getting that baby any medical help. A support associate told me about a live aborted baby who was left to die on a counter in our Soiled Utility room wrapped in a disposable towel. This baby was accidentally thrown in the garbage. Later, when they were going through the trash trying to find the baby, the baby fell out of the towel and onto the floor.

I was recently told about a situation by a nurse who said, ''I can't stop thinking about it.'' She had a patient who was 23-plus weeks pregnant, and it did not look as if her baby would continue to be able to live inside of her. The baby was healthy and had up to a 39 percent chance of survival, according to our national statistics. But the patient chose to abort. The baby was born alive. If the mother had wanted everything done for her baby at Christ Hospital, there would have been a neonatologist, a pediatric resident, a 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, the only personnel present for this delivery were an obstetrical resident and my co-working friend. After delivery, the baby, who showed early signs of thriving—her Apgars improved—was merely wrapped in a blanket and kept in the Labor and Delivery Department until she died two and a half hours later.

To me, something is very wrong with a legal system that requires doctors to pronounce babies dead but does not require them to assess babies for life. I am also very uncomfortable with the fact that the very doctors who may be miscalculating birth weights, due dates, or misdiagnosing fetal handicaps are the same ones deciding that these babies should not be assessed after delivery.

Shouldn't these babies be given the simple opportunity for second opinion, just as you and I do? No other children in America are medically abandoned like this.

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Steve Saint to speak tomorrow

Steve Saint will be speaking tomorrow (11/18 10am-noon) at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Johnson City, TN.

In 1956, his father and four other missionaries were killed by Waodani Indians during an effort to make peaceful contact with them.

Saint appeared in and narrated the 2004 documentary film Beyond the Gates of Splendor. In 2005 he published his memoirs, a book titled End of the Spear. In 2006 there was a major film adaptation of the book, and Saint was heavily involved in the production process.

The Ultimate Civil Right

"Life, Liberty, and ..."

Without life, you cannot have liberty, pursuit of hapiness, own property, work, play, anything....

So life is the most important of the inalienable rights of man.

Liberty is most important for the disadvantaged, the weak, those unable to speak up for themselves. Those in power should protect the weak and disadvantaged. Others should make this a moral imperative of those in power -- that they protect the rights of the most vulnerable.

Who is more vulnerable than a baby -- one who has not been born? The only reason that abortion is legal is the voiceless state of unborn babies. They can't complain. They have no legal power. They have no economic power.

The most important civil right is the right to life.

1 John 4:1-10

1 John 4:1-10

1 Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 3 but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.

We need to be aware that false teachers are not just false teachers, but are following a spirit. One is of God, the other of the antichrist. You can easily find out by asking the questions: Was Jesus a real person? Do you acknowledge Jesus? In verse 9, we will see what "acknowledge Jesus" means.

4 You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. 5 They are from the world and therefore speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to them. 6 We are from God, and whoever knows God listens to us; but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. This is how we recognize the Spirit of truth and the spirit of falsehood.

We can be assured that when we teach, the Spirit can overcome the "worldly teachers". People of the world will not recognize this Spirit. People from God will listen.

7 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

We must love one another, like the example that God gave us. No one loved God enough to deserve eternal life. God loved us, the unlovable, by sending his Son to die for our sins. It was through Jesus' sacrifice that we live, not through any action of our own. This is the final test of acknowledging Jesus to test the spirits: Do you believe that Jesus died for our sins?

What it Takes to be an Atheist

On my favorite Sci-Fi show, Startgate: SG-1, the team finds an alien machine that allows them to travel between different universes. One of the characters on the show says that according to scientific theory, at every instant, all possible futures happen in alternate parallel universes.

Dawkins, in the God Delusion, acknowledges that our current universe is so unlikely to exist, that one must adopt theories like this to explain the universe.

Here are the two competing theories:

The universe is finely tuned:

1) because God created it that way
or
2) because we just happen to inhabit one of the infinite number of universes

To objectively and rationally look at the theories, let's look at the evidence:

1) God revealed himself in history through his son Jesus Christ. The historical evidence we have today is more abundent that any other historical figure of that time.
or
2) Mathematical equations that 'prove' multiple universes.

So, the question is, which is more likely, given the evidence?

How Do We Know?

I was given a daily devotional guide. When I looked at the book on the surface, it seemed normal, but researching it led me to a shock: the book was written by channelers who claimed to be channeling Jesus.

There were many thing in the book that sound like they could have come from Jesus, so how do we know? A person could be claiminging a new revelation from God, which is possible. How do we know what is from God and what is not?

One can use the same criteria that any reasoned and intellectual scholar would use if someone said they were channeling any historical figure. You would go back and compare what the person was saying and check if it contradicted the historical evidence. The Bible is the historical evidence of Jesus, and, with the great masses of evidence, is a reliable source. Contradictions seriously undermine those with new sayings or revelations from God or Jesus.

For channelers, the Bible itself says that this is not good to consult the spirits. So they contradict the Bible from the beginning. Their words are not to be trusted.