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mysteryowl

(7,396 posts)
Wed Feb 12, 2020, 02:06 PM Feb 2020

More than 2,400 fetuses found at Illinois home to be buried

Source: AP News

CHICAGO (AP) — In what’s sure to be a politically charged ceremony, more than 2,400 fetuses found last year at the suburban Chicago home of one of the Midwest’s most prolific abortion doctors will be buried Wednesday in Indiana, a state with some of the nation’s toughest anti-abortion laws.

Indiana’s top law enforcement official will preside over the mass burial in South Bend. The service comes five months after relatives sorting through Dr. Ulrich Klopfer’s belongings after his Sept. 3 death came across 2,246 sets of preserved fetal remains stacked floor to ceiling in his garage. Later, 165 more were found in a trunk of a car at a business where Klopfer kept several vehicles.

https://apnews.com/bb386f72bfbd189ef6dca8dfe38f339c


OMG! What timing to discover something so horrific.

Okay, is this fake news? The burial will be in South Bend! The town Mayor Pete is Mayor.
Update: I see there has been reporting on this story over the past few months as they find more fetuses in bags. I guess I missed it.

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More than 2,400 fetuses found at Illinois home to be buried (Original Post) mysteryowl Feb 2020 OP
I wonder who released the fetuses to a politician in Indiana? SharonClark Feb 2020 #1
It is indeed a bizzare story mysteryowl Feb 2020 #2
This story made the local news here in Indiana Proud Liberal Dem Feb 2020 #3
You know it is! This will come up during the election. mysteryowl Feb 2020 #4
They'll use it to prove we need even MORE restrictions against abortion Proud Liberal Dem Feb 2020 #5
Plus, the grizzy aspect of the story will be used to super-charge the radial RW religious. mysteryowl Feb 2020 #6
Exactly Proud Liberal Dem Feb 2020 #7

SharonClark

(10,014 posts)
1. I wonder who released the fetuses to a politician in Indiana?
Wed Feb 12, 2020, 02:12 PM
Feb 2020

Were they considered the property of the disceased doctor's family to do with as they wished?
That makes no sense.

mysteryowl

(7,396 posts)
2. It is indeed a bizzare story
Wed Feb 12, 2020, 02:15 PM
Feb 2020

The doctor died Sept. 3rd. He preformed the abortions, I think. Some of the fetuses are over 20 years old and stored in a preservative in baggies.

Proud Liberal Dem

(24,436 posts)
3. This story made the local news here in Indiana
Wed Feb 12, 2020, 02:26 PM
Feb 2020

As far as I can tell it's real. I'm sure that this is music to right-wing anti-choice politicians here in Indiana.

Proud Liberal Dem

(24,436 posts)
5. They'll use it to prove we need even MORE restrictions against abortion
Wed Feb 12, 2020, 02:32 PM
Feb 2020

when situations like this prove the opposite.

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