Pro-Life Nurse Starts Movement (1 views)
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Subject:   Looking Back at a Pro-Life Nurse Who Started a Movement
Source:   Daily Southtown (Chicago); August 19, 2001

Looking Back at a Pro-Life Nurse Who Started a Movement

Chicago, IL -- Jill Stanek wrapped the half-pound infant in a blanket and
rocked him at the nurse's station.  She held him up to the light and
peered through his translucent skin to see if his heart was still beating.

She tied his tiny arms across his chest 45 minutes later when he died and
took him to the hospital morgue, just like the adult patients.

For Stanek, a nurse at Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn, Illinois details of
how this nameless baby died two years ago come easily. She no longer gets
emotional over the particulars.

But some of her listeners do.

The tiny creature, conceived just 21 weeks earlier, was an under-developed
baby aborted because he had Down syndrome. The abortion practitioner used
a procedure in which a woman's labor is induced to trigger an abortion.
Occasionally, babies show signs of life when they emerge.

The baby Stanek cared for sustained 45 minutes of laborious breathing
before his heart stopped. He was 10 inches long and fully developed but
not yet ready to breathe on his own, she said.

The parents didn't want to hold him, and the nursing staff was too busy.
Stanek scooped him up from the counter in a utility room where he had been
set aside.

His brief existence compelled her to speak out against her employer,
against abortion, against what she considers infanticide.

For her, the anonymous baby became the catalyst of a life-changing
experience. His last breath, exhaled from a lung no larger than a
teaspoon, breathed purpose into her. She was no longer the pro-life nurse
who refused to participate in abortions. She became the pro-life nurse who
spoke out against the hospital that employed her, leaked internal
documents to the press, organized prayer vigils at the hospital, testified
before Congress and fought to keep her job in labor and delivery where she
still works today.

The hospital has disputed some of Stanek's claims during the two years
since she made her story public. However, it has changed its policy on
abortions to more strictly limit the circumstances under which they are
allowed. Today, a fetus with Down syndrome could not be aborted at Christ
Hospital, according to hospital officials.

If a baby shows signs of life following an abortion, the parents are
allowed to hold and cuddle the baby. Sometimes, the infants are placed in
the nursery with other babies. They usually die within a few hours of
birth.

The induced-labor abortions are performed when a severe defect likely
would cause the baby to die outside the womb, according to hospital
officials. Each case is carefully screened. The hospital oversaw 4,020
healthy births last year and performed 16 induced-labor abortions,
according to the Rev. Larry Easterling. Of the 16, five survived the
delivery.

Thrust under national scrutiny by Stanek's testimony, Christ Hospital has
waged a careful public relations campaign to attempt to convince the
public the induced-labor abortion is widely accepted among doctors and
performed nationwide.

Hospital officials approach Stanek cautiously. While they acknowledge her
right to free speech, they are frustrated with a public perception that
they are uncaring. "In fact, compassionate care is afforded to everyone
here," Easterling said. "In every (abortion) last year, the mothers did
hold the babies. They sometimes named the children. These were wanted
babies."

Stanek's story has been backed up by a fellow Christ Hospital nurse who
also testified before Congress when it voted on an abortion bill last year
-- the Born Alive Infants Protection Act. The hospital has not disputed
their testimony.

Stanek continues to crusade against the hospital's practice, leaning
heavily on the Bible and the First Amendment in protecting her job. Any
abortion is unacceptable to her, yet she cannot bring herself to quit.

"I'm not a nut, so I hope this doesn't come off sounding nutty," she says.
"The fact is, I never felt like I've been given permission to leave. I
never felt like I've done enough yet. There's a scripture that says, 'I am
here with the children you gave me to watch.' If I leave, what's going to
happen that I may be stopping, just by my very presence?"

Raised in a Christian family, Stanek grew up in a small northwest Indiana
town. Her mom was a church secretary, and her dad was a preacher and
Sunday school teacher who encouraged her to stand up for her values. When
she was about 3 years old, he marched her back into a grocery store after
finding a candy bar hidden in her hand. He made her "own up to what she
had done," recalled Stanek's mother, Mylene Hollar.

But she was not an easy teenager, her mother said. An outspoken nature
carries its drawbacks. And Stanek is the first to admit she was not a
model young adult. While she lives by the Bible today, she doesn't flaunt
her religious beliefs with a holier-than-thou attitude.

"I can safely say I've done a lot of bad things," she says. "I don't look
down on anyone. I just know there is a better way."

She married young after just a year at a Christian college and had a son,
Michael, at age 19. She came home to Indiana; the marriage fell apart; and
she started working in Chicago as a single mom.

As a young mother, Stanek was a secretary at a consulting firm downtown.
She fell in love and married her boss, Rich, when she was 25. They had two
children together: Tim, 19, and Daena, 15.

Stanek started nursing school full time when Daena was in first grade.
Stanek knew she wanted to be in the medical profession after stumbling
upon a horrific car accident in Indiana when Michael was still a baby. She
was the first one to come upon the wreck, and she helplessly tried to
comfort two dazed parents whose baby was killed in the crash.

"I didn't know what to do, and I never wanted to feel that helpless
again," she said. "What I really remember was getting back in my car,
taking Michael out of his car seat, hugging him and crying."

While still in nursing school, Stanek started working at Christ Hospital.
In 1995, after graduation, she transferred to labor and delivery. It never
occurred to her the hospital might perform abortions, and it wasn't until
she worked there a year that she learned doctors performed them for
unhealthy babies or when the mother's life was at risk.

"It was very uncomfortable, and I knew I'd have to deal with it
eventually, but the fact that I was only working about 20 hours per week
and they didn't do them that often allowed me to procrastinate," she said.

That day came in May 1999, when the anonymous boy aborted during the fifth
month of pregnancy was delivered and set aside in the utility room.
"That's what we had to do. If the parents don't want to hold them, and
most of the time they don't, there was no where else for the baby go but
the soiled utility room," Stanek said.

Hospital officials do not dispute Stanek's account of that night. They say
the abortion policy was in flux at that time. If infants were being placed
in utility rooms, it was not the "ideal situation," Easterling said.

Stanek wrote a letter to hospital officials, believing they were unaware
of what was taking place. She also began talking to her pastor at Parkview
Christian Church, Tim Harlow, and organizing prayer vigils outside the
hospital.

At the time, the hospital offered abortions on a case-by-case basis. There
was no clear policy, Stanek said.

Elective abortions of healthy babies never were offered. But according to
an internal document Stanek made public in the summer of 1999, the
hospital was considering a policy that would have allowed abortions for
mild to moderate retardation, spina bifida, HIV infection and a host of
other non-life threatening abnormalities.

After the publicity, the hospital tightened its policy and said it would
not perform abortions for non-lethal abnormalities. Abortions would only
be performed when the "health" of the mother was at stake, in cases of
rape or incest, or when the unborn child showed signs of fatal anomalies.

Around the same time, Stanek faced a disciplinary complaint from the
hospital for giving the draft policy to the press. Stanek felt compelled
to release it, she said, to refute claims the hospital made to the public
that those types of abortions were not taking place.

She also refused to sign a required confidentiality agreement vowing not
to discuss hospital or patient issues. The hospital eliminated its
confidentiality policy but also put Stanek on a one-year probation.

Since that time, she has continued to criticize the hospital, appearing on
national television and radio shows. She has testified in Springfield and
Washington, D.C.

Her colleagues at work have given her mild support, but most do not
actively support her cause.

"People are more worried about what people think than what God thinks,"
she said.

The utility room is now called the "work room," and the hospital set up a
"comfort room" for parents or nurses who wish to comfort babies, take
photos or baptize infants who live through the abortion procedure.

Stanek recently faced another disciplinary complaint from her employer
after helping publicize a picket at a doctor's home. She faces the
possibility every day of being fired.

"I didn't ask for any of this," she says. "They blindsided me with this
information, and they want me to just walk away from it, and I can't. If
you believe abortion is murder, and you truly do, how can you walk away
from it morally?"

Two years ago, she confronted the boundaries of her own morality in a
half-pound, under-developed infant. She held him in her palm.

She cannot put him down

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From:  David (DavidABrown)    9/3/2001 11:12 am  
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Nationally Renown Pro-Life Nurse Fired From Christ Hospital Job
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Subject:   Nationally Renown Pro-Life Nurse Fired From Christ Hospital Job
Source:   Chicago Tribune, Daily Southtown; September 2, 2001

Nationally Renown Pro-Life Nurse Fired From Christ Hospital Job

Chicago, IL -- Two years after she first ccame into the national spotlight
over her employer's "live birth abortion" policy, pro-life advocate Jill
Stanek said Sunday that she has been fired from her nursing job at Christ
Hospital and Medical Center in the Chicago suburb of Oak Lawn, Illinois.

Hospital officials said the discharge Friday had nothing to do with the
delivery room nurse's pro-life views, and Stanek declined to further
discuss what her manager or the human resources department head told her
Friday until she has a chance to talk with her attorney.

Stanek has criticized the hospital since 1999 and has continued to give
frequent media interviews to criticize the hospital's rare use of
labor-induced abortion. She was suspended once for leaking confidential
papers to the media, she said, and twice has been put on "final warning"
probation after breaking an unspecified rule in her employment contract.

A major turn of events took place in February of 2000 when Nurse Stanek
was forced to appear before a hospital Board of Review where she it was
alleged that she had, "contributed to a negative working environment
because of her pro-life activism." She responded that hospital policy,
"limited her rights and entitlement to free speech." She won that round
when the board agreed to revise her evaluation, but let stand an
admonishment.

As part of the abortion procedure, doctors artificially deliver an unborn
child in the second trimester if they detect a severe abnormality that
would prevent her from surviving. But the abortion procedure can also
occasionally result in unborn children living for as long as an hour
outside the womb and hospital staff leave them to die.

In July, Stanek testified on the issue before the U.S. House Judiciary
Committee in favor of the pro-life Born Alive Infants Protection Act. Two
weeks ago, a Chicago newspaper and the Pro-Life Infonet highlighted her
history of activism against the hospital.

When she returned to work Friday from vacation, Stanek was told she was
fired and escorted from the building, she said.

"It couldn't be coincidence this happened right after the article," Stanek
said.

However, hospital spokesman Michael Maggio said the article had nothing to
do with the decision to let Stanek go. "She was the main reason our
hospital became the center of attention in the abortion debate," Maggio
said. "But that had nothing to do with it."

"The article was no precipitating factor. I can tell you that much. ...
The article is a non-issue," Maggio said. "She no longer works at Christ
Medical Center. How that decision was reached, I was not involved."

Maggio declined to explain why Stanek was fired, saying that personnel
files are confidential.

Stanek said she had been on "final warning" at Christ Hospital because she
had encouraged people to picket a doctor who performed abortions. "I
suppose it was a surprise and not a surprise," Stanek said.

Stanek started at the hospital in 1993 and wasn't aware at first that the
hospital performed labor-induced abortions. When she witnessed an aborted
baby with Down syndrome that survived outside the womb for 45 minutes, she
alerted hospital officials, thinking something went wrong, she said.

In 1999, after consulting her pastor, she complained to the Illinois
attorney general's office. Investigators concluded that the hospital
violated no state laws.

But soon after, the hospital's parent, Advocate Health Care, tightened its
policies to no longer permit abortions on unborn children with non-lethal
birth defects like Down syndrome or spina bifida.

The controversy spurred pro-life state Sen. Patrick J. O'Malley of Palos
Park -- now a candidate for the GOP nomination for governor -- to
introduce a package of bills in the legislature that would have given
"born-alive" infants a right to life. After being passed in the Illinois
Senate, it was killed in a House committee.

"Jill Stanek is one of the most courageous women I have ever met," said
O'Malley, a former member of the hospital's governing council who resigned
his post because of the controversy. "I'm astounded they fired such a
talented professional. They're losing one of their best."

Christ Hospital has never performed elective abortions, Maggio said.
Currently it does the abortion procedure in cases of rape, incest, where
the health of the mother is threatened or if fatal abnormalities are
involved.

The hospital typically performs only 15 to 20 labor-induced abortions out
of more than 4,000 deliveries each year, said Rev. Larry Easterling, vice
president of Christ Hospital. But he claimed the practice is common at
hospitals across the nation.

Stanek said that her fight against abortions at Christ Hospital will not
end.

"I will continue to speak out on behalf of the babies who were aborted
alive at Christ," she said. "I'll continue to do what I can to stop the
abortions there."

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  From:  David (DavidABrown)    9/6/2001 8:19 am  
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Subject:   Pro-Life Nurse Stanek Says Her View Prompted Firing
Source:   Chicago Sun-Times, Daily Southtown; September 5, 2001

Pro-Life Nurse Stanek Says Her View Prompted Firing

Chicago, IL -- A pro-life nurse fired from her position at Advocate Christ
Hospital in Oak Lawn said Tuesday that she was dismissed because she
criticized the hospital for performing abortions.

"My termination was based solely on my stand against the Christ Hospital
abortion policies and procedures," said nurse Jill Stanek, who was fired
Friday. "It was a wrongful termination."

But a hospital spokesman said Jill Stanek's views about abortion had
nothing to do with her firing.

"Her change in employment status was not at all related to any personal
beliefs or stands that she takes now or has taken in the past," said
spokesman Mike Maggio. He said the hospital could not comment on specific
reasons Stanek was fired.

However, Stanek cited an appearance on a television show where she
criticized the hospital as part of the reason she was dismissed.

"That was one of the elements of my termination," she said. "They put it
in writing."

Stanek, a delivery room nurse who spent her entire eight-year career at
Christ Hospital, said she never talked about abortion with patients.

Stanek said she will look for another job, though she doesn't think she'll
apply at a hospital. She said she is reviewing with her attorney her
options regarding a wrongful termination lawsuit.

"I need to find work. I carry our family's health insurance, but I don't
know if I want to go back to work at a hospital," she said.

Stanek was fired Friday when she reported to work for her 11 p.m. shift.
Her manager met her in the nurse's lounge and escorted her to an office.

"I knew something was happening because whose boss is waiting for them at
11 p.m. on a Friday night?" she said.

The firing was cordial. She quickly hugged a colleague who was leaving
that day for maternity leave. Her manager then escorted her to clean out
her locker and took her to the exit, she said.

"This isn't about me," she said of her firing. "This is about a lot of
things, including medical personnel having the freedom to say something if
they feel their employer is doing something unethical. It's about being
able to speak out against your employer without retribution."

Christ Advocate is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in
America and the United Church of Christ. It allows abortions in cases of
rape or incest, if the mother's life is in danger or if the child is
unlikely to survive, Maggio said. Last year, the hospital performed 16
abortions out of 4,000 births.

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  From:  David (DavidABrown)    10/16/2001 8:13 am  
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Subject:   Michigan Bill Would Give Pro-Life "Conscience Clause"
Source:   Holland (MI) Sentinel; October 15, 2001

Michigan Bill Would Give Pro-Life "Conscience Clause"

Lansing, MI -- Pharmacist Mike Koelzer decided two years ago against
selling the morning-after pill in his Grand Rapids, Michigan pharmacy
because he considers it a form of abortion.

"It's important for people to be able to say 'No' if their job forces them
to do something against their religious beliefs," said Koelzer, co-owner
of Kay Pharmacy. "I would hate to think that someone could lose a job over
this."

State Rep. Stephen Ehardt, a pharmacist, also wants medical professionals
to be able to say "no" when they disagree with a procedure or prescription
based on religious, moral or ethical beliefs. That's why the Republican
state legislator introduced what he calls the conscience clause bill.

"The bill is intended to allow employees to have certain rights in the
workplace," Ehardt said.

The bill is expected to be taken up Tuesday by the House Health Policy
Committee, which he heads. Ehardt's legislation comes more than a year
after he introduced a similar bill to allow any health professional,
including medical students, to refuse to serve a patient based on their
beliefs.

That bill never made it out of committee.

Abortion advocates claimed it was intended to allow pharmacists to refuse
to fill birth control prescriptions when they don't agree with the
circumstances.

Ehardt said he's made some changes since last year. The new bill would
prevent doctors, nurses and pharmacists from using personal beliefs as an
excuse to discriminate against patients. The bill also wouldn't apply to
life-threatening situations, he said.

Curbing prescriptions for birth control, the abortion pill and the
morning-after pill aren't the purposes of the bill, Ehardt said. He said
there are other ethical questions facing medical professionals, such
whether to perform a court-ordered sterilization.

But David Fox, spokesman for the Michigan State Medical Society, said
doctors already have the right to refuse to do a procedure if they don't
agree with it. "These ethical guidelines have been there for decades, if
not generations," Fox said. "It just seems that they already cover the
waterfront on any kind of emerging issue."

However, whether the conscience clause applies to all health professionals
-- including nurses and pharmacists -- is another question.

Greg Baran of the Michigan Pharmacists Association said he wants the bill
to require health care professionals who won't fill a prescription or
handle a procedure to refer a patient to another professional who will.
Ehardt said he would consider adding that to the bill.

The conscience clause bill is House Bill 5158. For more information,
contact:  Right to Life of Michigan, PO Box 901, Grand Rapids, MI
49509-0901, (616) 532-2300

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  From:  David (DavidABrown)    10/19/2001 7:42 am  
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Subject:   Planned Parenthood Delays Fired Pro-Life Pharmacist's Lawsuit
Source:   American Center for Law and Justice Press Release; October 11,
2001

Planned Parenthood Delays Fired Pro-Life Pharmacist's Lawsuit

Cincinnati, OH -- The American Center for Law and Justice, an
international public interest law firm, said today it is disappointed with
a decision that's likely to delay the trial date in a lawsuit against
Kmart on behalf of a pharmacist who was fired for refusing to dispense
abortion producing drugs.

The trial date of November 5th is likely to be postponed due to a decision
by the federal court to permit Planned Parenthood to intervene in the case
in support of Kmart.

"This began back in 1996 and we were prepared to present our case in
federal court next month," said Francis J. Manion, Senior Counsel for the
ACLJ who is suing Kmart on behalf of the pharmacist. "While the entry of
Planned Parenthood is likely to delay the trial, we're confident that the
rights of employees who oppose abortion will prevail. It is clear that no
employee should be forced to choose between their livelihood and their
conscience. We will prove that the firing of our client violated a state
conscience law that protects persons who refuse to perform or participate
in medical procedures that result in an abortion."

The U.S. District Court in Cincinnati yesterday granted Planned
Parenthood's motion to intervene in the case. Planned Parenthood also
filed a motion for summary judgment - asking the court to dismiss the case
claiming that Ohio's conscience clause does not apply to the drugs that
Karen Brauer refused to dispense.

The case began in 1996 when Kmart fired Karen Brauer, an Indiana
pharmacist, after she refused to dispense a drug called Micronor.
Micronor, a progestin-only contraceptive, works in a significant number of
patients by preventing the implantation of a fertilized egg. According to
Brauer, this means Micronor and similar drugs, rather than preventing
pregnancy, terminate a human life that has already begun. Brauer was fired
from Kmart's Hamilton, Ohio store when she refused to sign an agreement
that she would dispense all lawfully prescribed medications regardless of
her feelings or beliefs. The ACLJ filed suit against Kmart in U.S.
District Court in Cincinnati in August 1999. In January 2001, the court
refused to dismiss the suit at Kmart's request and ruled that Brauer's
case could go forward under Ohio's conscience law.

Manion said the ACLJ would vigorously oppose the Planned Parenthood motion
to dismiss the case. "We intend to prove that the drugs Brauer refused to
dispense, and all other so-called `emergency contraceptives,' work by
ending the life of a distinct, separate human being. Karen Brauer and many
other health professionals should have a right to choose not to dispense
medication that ends a life."

Manion said the case is critical in helping to protect the rights of
employees who hold religious beliefs. "This case has enormous implications
for the growing practice of chemical or drug-induced abortions. So-called
`emergency contraceptives', `morning-after pills,' and RU-486 all work -
not by preventing pregnancy - but by ending a human life already in
existence."

The American Center for Law and Justice is an international public
interest law firm focusing on constitutional issues, religious liberty
work, and specializing in pro-life litigation.

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   From:  David (DavidABrown)    11/19/2001 10:41 am  
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She is a Real Winner!!

Pro-Life Whistleblower Nurse Will Run for State Legislature

Springfield, IL -- A pro-life nurse who spoke out against life-birth
abortions at Christ Hospital near Chicago will run for state
representative against a Republican lawmaker with whom she has sparred
over the abortion issue.

Jill Stanek of Mokena, a labor and delivery nurse who gained notoriety for
exposing the abortion policy of the hospital and who later was fired, will
run against Rep. Renee Kosel (R-New Lenox) in the March primary election.

The race could be one of the most-watched in the Chicago area with
abortion being the primary focus. While the Republican Party platform
opposes abortion, many Chicago-area Republicans support it. It has become
an issue that is no longer a party litmus test.

Kosel, who favors legal abortion, said she has taken positions that
reflect a pro-life position. She supports that parents be notified when a
minor child seeks an abortion. She also opposes taxpayer-funded abortions.

However, Kosel irked pro-life advocates like Stanek when she testified
against a bill in the spring that would have required doctors to try to
save infants who survive late-term abortions. In many cases, such
late-term abortions are performed because the unborn child suffers from
fatal anomalies. Kosel said she didn't agree that babies "with no chance
of survival" should be put on life support.

To Stanek and other pro-life advocates, any infant who survives a
late-term abortion should receive the same medical care an adult would.
Once born, they are citizens.

Stanek also has criticized Kosel, who also serves on the board of
directors for Christ Hospital, for her unclear position on abortion.

Stanek said she'll outline her positions during a formal announcement
soon, according to an email to the Pro-Life Infonet.

"I will run on a pro-life, pro-family platform," Stanek said. "The way the
district has been re-mapped, it will be one of the most conservative in
the state. I don't think Renee is a good representative of the district
based on many of the votes she has cast."

In her email to Infonet, Stanek explained, "As you know, I have been
involved for over two years in an effort to stop babies from being aborted
alive at Christ Hospital. This effort has taken me into the world of
politics. I have testified four times now before Illinois and Washington
Congressional committees, and through all this I have had multiple
opportunities to observe the Illinois General Assembly up close and
personal as well as my own current state rep, Renee Kosel. I have been
dismayed by both. I will get more into the details as to why I am running
sometime soon, but my passion is to preserve conservative
pro-life/profamily values.

Several years ago, Stanek began speaking out against the abortion policy
at Christ, which at the time allowed abortions for cases of Down syndrome
and serious mental retardation. The hospital has since tightened its
policy, according to officials there.

Stanek was fired in August, and the reasons for her dismissal were
confidential. Stanek has said she was fired because of her activism in the
abortion movement.

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