Mom of Stillborn Baby Speaks Out: ‘I Will No Longer be Silent on Abortion’

"These babies need someone to be their voice...." 

By Cassy Fiano Chesser
Live Action News

Just under two weeks ago, Britni Sauls delivered her baby boy, Ollie, at just 22 weeks. In an emotional Facebook post, she spoke candidly about her difficult experience — and how it gave her the strength to no longer be silent about abortion.

“This time last week I was laying in a hospital bed being asked questions no parent should ever have to answer,” she began. “‘Do you want to see your baby when he is born?’ Uhm? What in the hell kind of question is that.. the fact this question even has to be asked is sad… 

‘What funeral home do you want to use?’ ‘Do you want an autopsy completed?’ ‘Do you want to bathe your baby, or do you want the nurses to?'”

Ollie passed away after a horrible accident, and was delivered stillborn. 

“He was perfect in every way,” she said. “Ten little fingers, and ten little toes, beautiful little ears, and his little button nose. He had every single feature a baby should have. He even had finger and toe nails.”

Ollie’s delivery brought home a terrible reality for Sauls.

I am ANGRY, but not at God because I trust in His plan. I am ANGRY at every single person who shouts about the rights of this group or that group but is silent about the rights of these precious little lives who are killed every single day because someone chose to be irresponsible. I am ANGRY that so many women think this is totally okay. These babies need someone to be their voice and while I’ve always been silent about abortion until now I will no longer do so.

She noted that babies even younger than Ollie, at just 21 weeks, have survived and are thriving — and that babies just like Ollie are able to legally be aborted.

Did you know there’s an abortion clinic being opened in central Georgia? The first one to open in this area. It’s in Macon on Walnut Street. Do you know this clinic will allow abortions up until 24 weeks? How the hell is this even allowed?

… My baby kicked and responded to everything we said to him. His daddy would talk to my belly every single morning and every single night and he would kick in response. He responded to water hot or cold, shower, bath, or pool he hated it! He would move as far as he could up my belly to get out of it. He didn’t like me sleeping on certain sides and he would let me know. Just because they aren’t born yet, doesn’t mean they can’t feel anything. I’m almost certain his last violent crazy kicks was him trying to free himself from an umbilical cord that had become wrapped three times around his little neck. My baby would still be here if it wasn’t for a freak umbilical cord accident.

“I will no longer be silent on abortion,” she concluded.

While Sauls was critical in her post about women who have abortions, the reality is that for many of them, it isn’t a freely made choice. A disturbingly high number of women are coerced into abortions; even Alan Guttmacher, former president of Planned Parenthood, claimed that around 30% of abortions are the result of pressure and coercion. 

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Hospital Throws Stillborn Baby Out With the Dirty Laundry, Now Family is Suing

By Micaiah Bilger
Life News

When a hospital accidentally threw the body of Esmeralda Hernandez’s stillborn son into the dirty laundry, its staff did not initially tell the grieving mother.

Instead, Hernandez said she found out from the local news.

The Washington Post reports Hernandez and her family are suing Regions Hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota for treating the stillborn baby boy’s body and their rights with “disregard” and “indifference.” The family is asking for $50,000 for the “mental pain and suffering” they experienced during the ordeal, according to the report.

Hernandez delivered her stillborn son in April 2013, according to the report. He born prematurely after just 22 weeks in the womb, according to court documents.

The family named him José and worked with the hospital to arrange for his cremation.

Here’s more from the report:

But about two weeks later, the grieving family heard of a report on the news: The body of an infant, born at Regions Hospital, had been found amid dirty linens in a laundry facility in the town of Red Wing, 45 miles south of the hospital. The baby, still wearing a diaper and hospital identification bracelets, flew out of the dirty laundry and landed on a metal grate in front of the facility’s employees.

According to court documents, when the family heard the news report, they wondered: Could it be José?

They called the hospital, and soon after learned it was their child. Wrapped in linen, the body had been placed on a shelf in the morgue, Regions Hospital representatives told reporters a day later. A hospital employee, mistaking the remains as dirty linens, discarded them in the laundry.

In the lawsuit, the Hernandez family alleges that the hospital staff did not inform them about misplacing José’s body until after they called to ask about the local news reports. Only after the family agreed to come to the hospital for a meeting did the hospital staff admit that the news reports were about their son, according to the lawsuit.

The case gained international attention from the news media in 2013.

The hospital apologized immediately afterward and said it would conduct a thorough examination of its practices involving stillborn babies. According to Minnesota Public Radio, the hospital’s typical practice with stillborn babies was to wrap their bodies in linens and store them in the morgue. A hospital spokesperson later said they changed the practice and now store the babies’ bodies in bags in the morgue.

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