An abortion worker and abortion witness come ‘Face to Face’ in Live Action series
In the latest video of Live Action’s “Face to Face” series, a former abortion worker and an abortion witness discuss the things they saw in their respective professions, and how it impacted each of them.
Live Action founder Lila Rose speaks to former Planned Parenthood worker Patricia Sandoval and former RN-turned-pro-life-activist Jill Stanek about their life-changing experiences with abortion.
Stanek worked as a labor and delivery nurse at Christ Hospital in Oaklawn, Illinois, a suburb on the south side of Chicago. She learned that her hospital was involved in late-term abortion, and that the method used, “induced labor abortion,” had been happening for about a year. Stanek said that type of abortion “sometimes resulted in babies being aborted alive, and if they were aborted alive, they were shelved to die in the hospital’s soiled utility room.”
Though Stanek was not required to participate in aborting these babies due to her pro-life convictions, she became involved in a way she never expected.
“One night, a nurse friend was taking a little abortion survivor to the soiled utility room to die. And when she told me what she was doing, I couldn’t bear the thought of him dying alone,” Stanek said. “He’d been aborted because he had Down syndrome. He was about 21 and a half weeks old; he was about the size of my hand, and he didn’t move very much, you know, using all of his energy attempting to breathe. At that time, he wouldn’t have lived, even with help. But it was a life changing event...”
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