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Monday, October 11, 2010, 9:30 AM

In Australia, babies that survive abortion are being drowned in buckets of formaldehyde or abandoned on shelves until they die:

Babies that are surviving late-term abortions at Melbourne’s Royal Women’s Hospital might be being left on shelves to die, according to an Anglican minister.

Dr Mark Durie, minister of St Mary’s Caulfield, said staff were finding it hard to cope with a reported six-fold increase in late-term abortions at the Women’s since abortion was decriminalised in Victoria two years ago. He said because conscientious objection by medical staff was now illegal, the hospital could employ only people who endorsed late-term abortions.

This same sort of thing was occurring in America less than a decade ago until one brave Christian stood up to protect the vulnerable.

My friend Jill Stanek was a registered nurse in the Labor & Delivery Department at the ironically named Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn, Illinois when she discovered babies were being aborted alive and left to die without medical care. Her exposure of the practice and testimony before Congress helped lead to the signing of the Born Alive Infants Protection Act in 2002.

May God raise up someone like Jill, a committed defender of life who will help to end this infanticidal practice in Australia.

6 Comments

    Martin Snigg
    October 11th, 2010 | 1:43 pm

    Amen. It’s a national disgrace. Secularists are using the police to silence pro-life prayers as well. Charging them with ‘offensive behaviour’ for example for holding http://www.spuc.org.uk/shop/product_details?id=22

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    Steve
    October 11th, 2010 | 5:49 pm

    Wilfully promoting and performing abortions is terrible. Drowning a baby who survived an abortion in formaldehyde is a whole other load of evil.

    Sonja
    October 12th, 2010 | 6:52 am

    Thank you for publishing this article. Many of us are doing all we can to expose this and to encourage the public to hold the politicians (Australian Labour Party and The Greens) responsible for legislation that has resulted in this happening. The general public dont know about it and are shocked when we tell them. Despite our best efforts, our main stream media refuse to report it…
    We have an election in November in Victoria. You may like to stay posted by visitting our website.
    http://www.lifenetwork.org.au
    God save our babies!

    Sonja Couroupis
    President
    Life Network Australia

    Tom Daly
    October 12th, 2010 | 9:59 am

    A scary mindset is in the process of being created. Apparantly, it would have been criminal two years ago for a doctor or nurse in Victoria to assist in an abortion. Now, they are being told by the same government that it is illegal for them not to participate. “Oceania is at war with Eastasia; Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia”

    Bret Lythgoe
    October 13th, 2010 | 11:06 am

    As horrible as our abortion practices are, here in the United states, we at least have the Born Alive Infants Protection Act.

    There were people, here in the US, who had no idea that late term abortions were occurring, let alone the letting of “post abortion” babies die. Which is really where the problem lies. I believe that, if more people were aware of these practices, the moral outrage would force legislators to take action, in any democratic republic, where this is taking place. Of course, if Australia’s media is anywhere near as complicit, in the abortion industry, as ours is in the US, there will be a rather difficult climb out.

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