Nurse Finds Baby Who Survived Abortion in a Dish Struggling to Live: “He Was Alive, and He Was Breathing”

“It will haunt me for the rest of my life”

By The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children
Life News

The Save the 8th Campaign has launched a new platform to give a voice to those who have experienced first hand the reality of legalized abortion.
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The #MyAbortionStory shares the stories of former abortion workers, nurses who have seen children who survived abortion and women hurt by abortion and will include billboards and social media videos.

Two healthcare workers, who feature on the billboards, spoke at the launch event yesterday. Caren Ní hAllacháin, a nurse, told the press conference that she had witnessed a baby who survived an abortion, but had been powerless to help the child because abortion was legal and she was not permitted to intervene, while Noel Patrún recounted his experience in assisting with abortions in a UK hospital.

Ms Ní hAllacháin describes how, when working as an agency nurse in Sydney, she found a 22 week old baby struggling to breathe in a kidney dish, where he’d been left to die after an abortion. “I was a young nurse and I did not know what to do,” she said.

“Because this was an abortion I wasn’t allowed to intervene, I couldn’t get help for the baby, I couldn’t hold him or comfort him, or get oxygen for him or ask anyone to help him live. To see that baby trying to breathe, and nobody helping him, was so distressing and it will haunt me for the rest of my life.

“I fear for nurses like me if this abortion proposal is passed, and for the culture it will create in Irish hospitals,” she continued.

 “I fear that doctors will be expected to sit in judgement on the value of a baby’s life because of a suspected abnormality. There is a heart-breaking reality to repealing the 8th amendment and legalizing abortion that is largely being ignored. I never want any nurse to see the heart-breaking reality that I saw.”

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