Colo. Church Buries Aborted Fetuses' Ashes

[Steff]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0...4751301,00.html

 

 

 

 

Sunday January 23, 2005 11:46 PM

By CATHERINE TSAI

 

Associated Press Writer

 

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) - A Roman Catholic church buried the ashes of hundreds of aborted fetuses Sunday, a day after the 32nd anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision that made abortion legal, drawing criticism that the church was exploiting women's grief to make a political statement.

 

A crowd of 250 parishioners prayed as the ashes were buried in the Sacred Heart of Mary Church cemetery, while a handful of protesters gathered nearby holding signs that read, ``This church is a grave robber.''

 

A mortuary hired by the abortion clinic to dispose of the fetuses had been giving the ashes to the church for years to be buried at a memorial. Dr. Warren Hern, clinic director, said he had no idea such an arrangement had been made and said his contract required the mortuary to bury the ashes in its own plot.

 

The church agreed to return the remains of 300 to 500 fetuses that had been cremated in November before the service began Sunday. The church had been planning to bury up to 1,000 fetuses. Seven bags containing remains from miscarriages also were buried.

 

Organizers said they wanted to give the fetuses the burial they deserved and provide a place for women who have had abortions to grieve and mourn.

 

``I think they misunderstand what we're doing,'' service organizer Susan LaVelle said. She said the parish has held unannounced burials twice a year since 2001, but the parish priest agreed to make the burial public this year.

 

LaVelle said the timing of the service so close to the Saturday anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision was a coincidence.

 

But Kate Horle, spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, has said many of Hern's patients were devastated by the news of a religious service.

 

``Our concern is for the women who had personal relationships with Dr. Hern and their understanding of what would happen with the fetuses,'' she said. ``That trust was violated with a third party.''

 

Horle said most of Hern's patients have fetuses with fatal anomalies. His clinic specializes in ``late abortion for fetal disorders,'' according to its Web site.

 

Hern did not immediately return a message seeking comment Sunday, but called the service last week ``a cynical exploitation of private grief for political purposes.''

 

Doug Kramer, 18, said his family attended the burial because his sister considered an abortion 14 years ago but instead gave her baby up for adoption.

 

``It's great to bring this out to the public,'' he said. ``The word needs to be spread. Abortion does stop a beating heart. It's not giving a girl or boy a chance at life.''

 

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Boulder Abortion Clinic: http://www.drhern.com

 

Sacred Heart of Mary: http://sacredheartofmary.org

[Pale Hose Jon]

:puke :puke :puke

[Steff]

:puke  :puke  :puke

 

 

 

You think that's bad...

 

Check this out..

 

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42495

 

 

'Abortionist 'flushed babies down toilet'

 

Doctor's receptionist also faces charges for illegally performing terminations...

 

Police in New Jersey say an abortionist who flushed the remains of babies down toilets and tossed bloodied materials into garbage bins is now facing charges, just days after his receptionist was arrested for illegally performing terminations.

 

According to the Asbury Park Press, Dr. Flavius Thompson, 60, turned himself in at the Lakewood Police Department this week, and is accused of operating an abortion clinic without a license to process or store medical waste.

 

 

Thompson's office is at the Pleasant Women's Pavilion, a licensed abortion clinic, where a search warrant was executed last Saturday.

 

Officials say he's charged with violating the New Jersey Water Pollution Act by flushing "products of abortions" into the sanitary sewer.

 

The Press says Thompson also faces a charge of "dumping class-three regulated medical waste, mainly human blood products and items saturated, dripping or caked with human blood into the trash to be carted to a place not authorized to accept medical waste by the state Department of Environmental Protection."

 

The charges against Thompson come in the same week his receptionist was arrested for allegedly performing abortions without a license.

 

Liza Berdiel, 24, is accused of injecting abortion-inducing drugs into three patients. Prosecutors say she performed the abortions after-hours or when Thompson was not working. Both Berdiel and Thompson have been released by authorities pending future court dates.

 

"This investigation exposes some of the many abuses that occur daily inside the so-called 'safe and legal' abortion industry,'' Marie Tasy, executive director of New Jersey Right to Life, told LifeNews.com.

[Pale Hose Jon]

This really is the most depressing day of the year

[Spiff]

I don't understand what's so bad about the first story.

[Steff]

I don't understand what's so bad about the first story.

 

 

I think he was grossed out by the act of cremating an aborted fetus. Just a guess though..

[Pale Hose Jon]

I think he was grossed out by the act of cremating an aborted fetus. Just a guess though..

 

Yep taking a fetus and burning it, doesn't make my stomache fell so well

[HuskyCaucasian]

I have an interesting take on this. (Let the record show that I am 100% against abortion.) If these clinics don’t think a fetus is alive and therefore is not a "human" then why should they have to dispose of it in a way that represents it as having been an important creature. Why would you burry something that was never alive? We throw weeds in the trash. Isn’t that what clinics are basically calling an aborted baby.... an unwanted weed.

[Steff]

I have an interesting take on this. (Let the record show that I am 100% against abortion.) If these clinics don’t think a fetus is alive and therefore is not a "human" then why should they have to dispose of it in a way that represents it as having been an important creature. Why would you burry something that was never alive? We throw weeds in the trash. Isn’t that what clinics are basically calling an aborted baby.... an unwanted weed.

 

 

 

I don't think they are the ones that care.. it's the Church that's doing the burying. They are just giving them the remains. I think they have to creamate them. I would guess it's illegal to dispose of them in the form they are in at the time of termination.

[Rex Kickass]

Because its technically a biohazard. Throwing an aborted fetus in a dump is about as safe for your groundwater as me bleeding in your hot water heater.

[Jake]

to tell y'all the truth, i only clicked this thread because i thought it was call colorado chruch buries abourted fetuses asses

[JUGGERNAUT]

Respect for life vs respect for the right to murder & dispose of life. This battle wages throughout time, across borders, & across cultures. It's always the same. First you strip the value of personhood from the human life. The plantation owners did it to the slaves, & the Nazi's did it to the Jews. Having established a law that accepts the devaluation of such life you then go about seeking a means to control it to the extent you can terminate it when it no longer serves a purpose for you.

 

Of course both the owners & the Nazi's believed in the human soul so they needed to de-spiritualize their prey as well. Essentially creating a belief that you had to be worthy to have a soul.

 

Just like the abolitionists fought the owners & the American's fought the Nazi's we to will continue to fight those who wish to oppress others. Pro-Choice is a joke in America. Until the day exists when there are only pro-choice clinics which over both abortion & prenatal services & counseling on equal footing there is no such thing as pro-choice in America. The number of abortion clinics in American drawf that of the number of crisis pregnancy centers.

 

Whether you are pro-abortion, pro-choice or pro-life there are right ways to do things & there are wrong ways to do things. Flushing fetuses down the toilet & cremating them without a service is not the right way.