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October 25, 1999
"CapitAlert" Life Advocacy Briefing #6-42

Resignation Protests Ongoing Infanticide

A PROMINENT MEMBER OF THE GOVERNING BOARD of "Christ" Hospital in Oak Lawn, Illinois, has resigned from the panel after a majority of his colleagues refused to reject an abortion policy promulgated by the medical center's parent Advocate health system.

GOP State Sen. Patrick O’Malley followed through Thursday on his earlier threat to resign if the Advocate system continued to foster abortion at the formerly respected Chicago south suburban hospital.

The largely pro-life community around the hospital was shocked this summer to learn from whistle-blowing nurse Jill Stanek that premature births of babies deemed "defective" are being induced by "doctors" at the Advocate facility where she works. After protesting in vain to hospital administrators, the labor/delivery nurse went public, relating an incident where she had held a tiny baby 45 minutes before his gasps for breath ended in death.

Three prayer vigils outside the hospital have not yet moved hospital authorities to repent; another is set for Nov. 13, despite the hospital's largely successful effort to spin their new policy as one which "limits" abortions. (Life Advocacy has learned that three abortions have reportedly been committed at the hospital in the past week, an actual increase in the hospital's abortion traffic.) Sen. O'Malley's resignation, after four years on the governing council, helps the public discern the deception with which the hospital is attempting to recover its image.

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