What happens to the bodies of prenatal children after abortion?
Should they be considered as medical waste, and handled accordingly?
Unwanted, beyond the value of their harvested organs, is their flesh disposable in our collective mind?
I’ll explore those questions in this two-part series, prompted by reports of the bodies of five fully developed aborted fetuses being recovered in DC this week. These questions should concern us all. We all live in communities where abortion is happening nearby. Do we know what that practice entails? Are we concerned about the public health aspects for our own sake, if not for the sake of abortion’s youngest victims?
MEDICAL WASTE
The pro-life activism organization PAAU presented evidence of receiving a box of medical waste by a Curtis Bay Medical Waste driver outside the Washington Surgi-Center abortion facility in Washington, DC on March 25. They allege the box contained the remains of 115 aborted fetuses, including five who appeared fully developed.
NOTE: **There’s much more to the Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising story and the circumstances of recovering the bodies, including a police raid, arrests and possible prison time for a protest at an abortion facility in 2020 and on April 1 this year. Many links are available to learn those details and to view the recovered bodies; most of my links in this series contain a warning of graphic content. I’m choosing to focus in this series on how this story illustrates what becomes of the hundreds of thousands of other abortion victims after their bodies leave the abortion facility. **
THE RECOVERY
PAAU says they asked the driver if he knew the contents may be aborted fetuses. They claim he agreed to give them the box, a claim denied by CBMW.
Curtis Bay also denies a claim made by PAAU spokesperson, Missy Smith and reported by LifeSiteNews, “According to its website, Curtis Bay “utilizes Waste-to-Energy (WTE) incineration to safely convert infectious/biomedical waste and non-hazardous pharmaceuticals into useful energy.”
The language has since been scrubbed from the Curtis Bay website, but here is a screengrab from July, 2021. This smacks of damage control, and evidence that Curtis Bay is being less than forthcoming.
The reaction to the news has fallen along predictable lines. Anti-abortion and pro-life proponents accept the report at face value and are demanding an investigation as to whether laws were broken when the late term abortions were performed. Pro-abortion and pro-choice advocates are rejecting the report as a stunt or perverse fetish, along with rejecting the idea that fetuses are being incinerated along with other medical waste at WTE facilities.
Could that even be remotely true?
Fetuses-as-fuel was reported here in the US in Oregon, and in the UK, in hospitals, no less, both in 2014. Those stories led to reform efforts, but the Curtis Bay allegations, and their own statements, seems to suggest more oversight and regulation is needed.
As shocking and disturbing as this story may be it appears to be completely true, making each of us a willing or unwilling accomplice to such an abominable practice in our land.
