[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 102 (Wednesday, July 24, 2002)]
[House]
[Page H5320]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   BORN-ALIVE INFANTS PROTECTION ACT

  (Mr. SHIMKUS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SHIMKUS. Mr. Speaker, thank you, Jill Stanck. Jill is an 
obstetrical nurse at Christ Hospital in Illinois. After observing a 
child born alive after an abortion procedure and left to die, she 
became involved in righting this wrong through the legislative process, 
hence, the Born Alive Infant Protection Act.
  On July 18 the other body voted unanimous consent to approve the Born 
Alive Infants Protection Act. The bill is now sent to the President for 
his signature. This bill passed both Chambers easily because we all 
felt, pro-lifers and those that are pro-choice, that infants who are 
born alive at any stage of development are individual human beings who 
are entitled to the full protection of the law.
  Thanks to the work of Jill Stanck, the Concerned Women of America, 
Members of both the House and the Senate, and soon President Bush, a 
baby born alive will not be left to die in a hospital again.

                          ____________________