Church to Bury Fetal Remains Collected Without AbortionClinic's Knowledge

[displacedtexan]

Mods,
I edited the long headline to make it fir the subject line.

Church Plans to Bury Fetal Remains From Abortions Collected Without Abortion Clinic's Knowledge

The Associated Press

Published: Jan 21, 2005

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) - A Roman Catholic church plans to bury the ashes of up to 1,000 aborted fetuses Sunday to mark the 32nd anniversary of Roe v. Wade, prompting scathing criticism from family planning groups.

Boulder Abortion Clinic director Dr. Warren Hern, who had no idea the mortuary working with his clinic had been sending ashes to Sacred Heart of Mary Church, said the decision was "a cynical exploitation of private grief for political purposes."

Chuck Myers, the director of Crist Mortuary, has an agreement with the clinic to collect and cremate tissue and had been giving the ashes to the church since 2001. Myers also delivered ashes to the parish for three years in the mid-1990s while working as a funeral home director, said parish volunteer Susan LaVelle.

"What was going to happen to those ashes if we didn't pick them up? Would they be thrown away? I hope my words would never harm someone. My message is one of healing," LaVelle told The Denver Post in Friday's editions.
Link: http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGB4HFEC84E.html

OK, folks!

This funeral home is ACTUALLY owned by...

Yep, you guessed it!

SCI (BushCo subsidiary)

GGGGGGGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!

[NuttyFluffers]

1. cool, they can care for all the john and jane does sitting in morgues too

seems like they got a lot of time on their hands. they can find enough space on church lots to give these souls proper burials, right? not just dump them in common secular graves like they often are, right? cool. we should then start sending all remains of the unidentified to them.... why, didn't he just say, "What was going to happen to those ashes if we didn't pick them up? Would they be thrown away? I hope my words would never harm someone. My message is one of healing," how kind, please take care of the dead homeless too, please?

[noel711]

2. This makes no sense.....

in RC theology, traditionally, no one unbaptised can be buried in consecrated ground (and in light of other faiths, that would be like having a funeral for your clipped fingernails- sanctity of unused body parts?). EVen suicides are traditionally banned from catholic cemeteries because they were not shriven (absolved from their sins) before they died. Sounds like another grandstand for the "pro life" agenda.

[meow2u3]

3. RC theology also talks of "baptism of blood"

Baptism by blood is when a person either wants to be baptized, but either can't or is prevented from receiving the sacrament of baptism, or when someone too young (for instance, an newborn infant or fetus) to go through the ceremony of baptism dies a bloody death.
At any rate, God ultimately is the judge and decides who gets to go to heaven; the Church simply expresses the general rules.