Aborted Babies Burnt to Keep Hospitals Warm

The corpses of aborted babies are being burnt to keep hospitals warm.

The shocking revelations emerged after a 24th March Dispatch report exposed that unborn fetuses were being incinerated in UK hospital facilities to produce fuel.

Investigators found that some fetuses were classified as “clinical waste” while others were used as fuel in waste-to-energy facilities that produce heat.

According to the report, twenty-seven different NHS trusts have incinerated approximately 15,500 fetuses since 2011. These include babies who were the subject of both abortions and miscarriages. Ten of these trusts burned 1,000 sets of remains along with other medical waste, and two admitted that remains were burned in waste-to-energy furnaces that generate energy to power hospitals.

After the Dispatch report came out, the Department of Health banned the practice of incinerating fetal remains. Health minister Dr. Dan Poulter called the practice “totally unacceptable,” and Chief Executive of the Human Tissue Authority (HTA) said in a statement that they would “act on this immediately.” Even though the HTA advises hospitals that “incineration may not be appropriate for fetal remains,” they decided to tighten standards.

One of the hospitals that incinerated fetal remains, Ipswich Hospital in Suffolk, denied its involvement despite the Dispatch reporting that over 1,100 fetal remains had been incinerated between 2011 and 2013. It claimed that the fetal remains burned at its location were taken from another hospital, not from its own facility. Addenbrooke Hospital in Cambridge was reported to have incinerated 797 fetuses at its waste-to-energy plant. Addenbrooke reportedly told mothers that the babies were going to be “cremated.”

Although both cremation and incineration dispose of a body by burning, they are two very different practices. A fetus that is cremated is buried afterwards. Cremation is not “an alternative to a funeral.” On the other hand, an incinerated fetus is consumed along with other rubbish or, as we have seen in some cases, it is used as waste to generate energy for a facility.

According to the Human Tissue Authority (HTA), “a woman or couple should be made aware that information on disposal options is available if they wish to see it.” The website additionally states that the method of disposal should be properly documented.

The underlying outrage is that some mothers who were the victims of miscarriages may have been given false information about the way in which their babies’ bodies were disposed of. Instead of receiving a human burial, their babies were being treated as medical waste and used as recyclable energy.

“For you formed my inward parts; you covered me in my mother’s womb. I will praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.” (Psalm 139:13-14a) The Psalmist knew that human life was a gift from God. Unfortunately, our culture does not. The incineration of unborn babies can be seen as a fitting reflection of our culture’s attitude toward life. Many of the fetal remains were the result of abortions, and sometimes the mothers did not wish to know what happened to the remains. In a culture that values life so little, should we be at all surprised that such a practice has come to light?

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