Plastic: Do Aborted Fetuses Deserve Christian Burials?

In countries like Japan, no one raises a fuss when the remains of aborted fetuses are given religious blessings. However, in America, this isn't the case — abortion-rights activists and an abortion clinic in Colorado have vigorously protested a local Roman Catholic Church's burial service for aborted fetuses.

The cremated remains of these fetuses had come from a mortuary that had been contracted by the abortion clinic to cremate its fetal corpses. The problem, from the clinic's perspective, was that it hadn't been informed that the mortuary had been sending the ashes to the Church to be given Christian burials. According to the clinic's director, the mothers are traumatized their aborted fetuses have been given Christian burials without their consent. As he complains:

They have taken it upon themselves to make a macabre ritual out of this, inflicting pain on everyone. I have women calling me who are very upset over this. These fanatics simply cannot leave other people alone with their most intimate sorrow.

But why did the mortuary send the ashes to the Church in the first place? According to a parish volunteer, one of the mortuary's employees first contacted the church nine years ago, "after discovering human remains in material received from the abortion clinic."

The clinic said it was just tissue, but when he opened it up he and his staff were traumatized. He asked the church what he should do, and our priest offered to bury it.... If we had not buried these ashes, they would have been thrown away in the trash. Why would they be upset that we are treating the remains of unborn children with dignity?

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Just wait until Bush nominates a couple of more conservative Supreme Court Justices during the next 4 years, can you say bye-bye Roe v. Wade, hello back alley coathanger clinicians?