Examining the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act

Jill Stanek is National Campaign Chair at Susan B. Anthony List, the largest pro-life political group in the country. SBA List works to pass pro-life legislation and elect pro-life leaders to office, with a focus on women.

When it would have been easier to look the other way, Jill’s commitment to Christ led her to risk her job, reputation, and friendships to stop the terrible practices of abortion and infanticide.

Jill was a registered nurse in the Labor & Delivery Department at Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn, Illinois. She discovered that not only were abortions being committed there, but babies were being aborted alive to die without medical care.

When hospital leaders said that they would not stop, Jill went public and has become a national figure in the effort to protect both born and pre-born infants.

Jill was part of a panel of pro-life medical experts who provided Congressional testimony on 9/10/19 in a hearing hosted by Republican Whip Steve Scalise and Representative Ann Wagner, sponsor of H.R.962 – the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.

If passed, the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act would make it a legal requirement across the U.S. to provide the same level of care for babies born alive after an attempted abortion as any other baby that gestational age would receive, this includes the legal requirement to transfer any baby born alive after an abortion to a hospital for immediate care (since abortion centers are not equipped to handle caring for newborns).