Hospital admits to burning aborted babies in waste incinerator

(As this is my first post, please excuse any possible stylistic problems.)

I came across this article from the "Daily Mail" in the UK.

“Hospital admits to burning aborted babies in waste incinerator.”

(By James Slack, 23rd October 2006)

“One of the country's leading hospitals is throwing aborted babies into the same incinerator used for rubbish to save only £18.50 each time, it has emerged.

Addenbrooke's Hospital, in Cambridge, said it was no longer able to afford the dignified disposal at a local crematorium of foetuses from unwanted pregnancies. Instead, they are being burnt in the hospital's main incinerator - which is normally used for rubbish and clinical waste.

The revelation sparked anger and distress among church leaders and pro-life groups, as well as women whose pregnancies were terminated at the hospital.”

I am of course reminded of the words in Genesis 4:10 which read:

“Dixitque ad eum quid fecisti vox sanguinis fratris tui clamat ad me de terra.”

“And He said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.”

Perhaps from a kind of sadness I wonder what is happening in Britain? Though the British Empire was an exponent of militant Protestant Christianity, it was nonetheless a moral force for good. Is there any hope (moral) for the West?

As I write these words a little voice in my head - I think Sister Paulette - my 6th grade teacher - muses that "Hope" is a theological virtue and definitely not the same as a "wish." And of course the Hope for the West, East, North and South, for the whole world, is the salvation of Jesus Christ and His one true Church.

Nonetheless, I wonder as to how much public (and gross) moral decay we will see before things get better?

The full article can be found at- http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=412172&in_page_id=1770

Comments

[Brian S.]

I think the fact that this is a newsworthy event reveals something about the inherent evil of abortion. I mean, it is no better to give a dignified burial or more sanitized cremation to the dead baby killed by the act of abortion. But somehow, something in the back of people's minds activates their sense of moral outrage when they hear about this. Why?
I hope that this is an indication that the Natural Law is working within them, that hearing about those tiny corpses being burned with the trash appeals to their God given sense of right and wrong. If only they could allow themselves to continue on to the next logical step: burning dead babies with the trash is wrong BECAUSE killing little unborn babies itself is wrong.
It's a shame if stories like this only go as far as dealing with the sanitation issue. What a waste if public discussion is raised to address a moral outrage, but falls short of even admitting what the heart of the problem is, which is clearly that abortion is murder.

[Kris]

Good point Brian.

If their only destroying a mass of cells or something that isn't even human, what's wrong with buring them with the daily trash?

[rich]

"The revelation sparked anger and distress among church leaders and pro-life groups, as well as women whose pregnancies were terminated at the hospital."

I cannot imagine why a woman who murders her child would be angered and distressed when others dispose of her child as the rubbish that she views it to be.

[Zarba]

We sit here wondering if the West can prevail against extreme Islam.

I wonder if we can prevail against our own nihilism. Or if we deserve to prevail.

We erect monuments and solemnly promise to Never Forget! the Holocaust, and rightly so, yet here we sit as our own society engages in the slaughter and callous cremation of countless millions of innocents. We do it in the same fashion, and with the same disinterested boredom as the soulless bureaucrats of Hitler's Germany.

And we wonder why our society is crumbling around us?

When we can sit sround over our lattes and actually have an argument over the practice of partial birth abortion, as if it were no more significant as "paper or plastic?"?

When we've created doctors with no more respect for life that they could deliver a living child, then stick a vacuum hose through its skull and suck out the brains, and call it a "medical procedure"?

When Down's Syndrome babies are routinely extirminated becasue they are not our ideal of perfection?

When we have lowered the value of life to the point that embyonic stem-cell research has become the subject of competing political ads, yet no one talks about the dead babies that are the providers of such tissue?

When we are actually farming human beings so that we can harvest their organs and stem cell lines like so much wheat and chaff?

When we can kill living human beings because WE think they have no "quality of life"?

And we act sanctimonious and upset when a hospital treats dead babies as no more than trash to be economically disposed of?

And all we can do is be "angry and distressed"?

Our Church leaders are "distressed"? That's all they can muster? Maybe they'll write a strongly worded letter. That'll show 'em!

The women who murdered their children are "distressed"?

May God have mercy upon our souls.

[Kris]

Actually Zarba, strongly worded letters have led to some pretty good things...Declaration of Independence ring a bell.

Short of mustering a Pro-life Army together (oh the Irony!), our Church leaders can only do so much--we must remember though that "only so much" includes storming heaven with prayers and BEGGING our blessed Mother to intercede.

Change will come, untill then...

Regina sine labe originali concepta, ora pro nobis.

[A Simple Sinner]

“...throwing aborted babies into the same incinerator used for rubbish to save only £18.50 each time, [The] Hospital... said it was no longer able to afford the dignified disposal at a local crematorium of foetuses from unwanted pregnancies."

£1 = $1.88 or about $35.00 for the cremation.

How does one have "dignified disposal" of someone they just chopped up and sucked out? Maybe a small memorial service or playing some funeral music?

One wonders why they EVER paid $35 a pop to for "dignified disposal" of something that was a mass of cells - if it is what we they say it is, it can go in the same bio-waste incinerator as the bloody bandages or removed appendixes and gaul bladders.

Actually, in doing even that much they are doing a bit better than some clinics in America have done. A former Reformed Episcopal priest who appeared on The Journey Home a few months ago actually got involved in the pro-life movement when one of his parishoners alerted him that fetuses were being tossed in the dumpster of the abortuary across the street from his church. I am trying to remember the man's name if anyone wanted to listen to the interview in real audio... If I come up with it, I will post it with a link - it is worth listening to.

[vincero]

To the quote from Genesis I would add, "See that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that their angels in heaven always look upon the face of my heavenly Father." Mt. 18:10

[DenverCatholic]

More lefty trolling "peace"?

Stop trying to hijack this blog with your mindless political bullcrap.

Mods, I suggest a ban is in order - "peace" is posting commpletely off topic with only the intent to disrupt this blog.

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