CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- Revelations that National Health Service hospitals in the U.K. have disposed of the bodies of miscarried or aborted children by incineration as clinical waste show the need to reject abortion and to respect life, pro-life leaders said.<\/p>\n\t\u201cWe hope that this tragic and distressing story will cause the mask that exists to disguise the humanity of the unborn to slip, causing society to reflect more deeply on the value of human life and what it means to be human,\u201d Carolyn Farrow, a commentator with Catholic Voices, told CNA March 25.<\/p>\n
\tShe said the report is cause for wider conversation about abortion\u2019s implications, given the government\u2019s efforts to expand legal abortion.<\/p>\n
\t\u201cWe should not forget the almost 200,000 babies who are lost to abortion every year in the U.K., almost all of whom will have had their remains treated in a similar fashion.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tAt least 15,500 fetal remains have been incinerated by 27 National Health Service trusts in the last two years, the Channel 4 program Dispatches reported, with some remains disposed of as \u201cclinical waste.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tOne leading hospital, Addenbroke\u2019s in Cambridge, incinerated 797 babies who died under 13 weeks into pregnancy at a \u201cwaste to energy\u201d plant that is used to heat the hospital. The babies\u2019 mothers were told the remains had been cremated, The Telegraph reported March 24.<\/p>\n
\tAnother facility at Ipswich Hospital incinerated 1,101 fetal remains brought from another hospital in a \u201cwaste to energy\u201d program.<\/p>\n
\tFarrow said that fetal remains \u201cshould be accorded the same dignity and respect as (those of) any other human being.\u201d<\/p>\n
\t\u201cWe are all made equally in the image and likeness of God.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tPaul Tully, general secretary of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, said March 25 the hospital practices were \u201cappalling\u201d and connected to legal abortion.<\/p>\n
\t\u201cWe must stop killing babies like these by abortion and then we will know how to respect the dead,\u201d he said, noting that the unborn have \u201call the essential attributes of a person from conception,\u201d though these characteristics are still in development.<\/p>\n
\t\u201cIf we feel differently about the unborn, it is simply because he or she is a stranger \u2013 someone we have not yet met or developed affection for.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tFarrow said Catholic Voices reacted to the story with \u201crevulsion and horror \u2026 this is the stuff of dystopian horror movies.\u201d<\/p>\n
\t\u201cThe practice of abortion is frequently compared with the Holocaust, due to the large numbers of children discarded as unwanted and the callous disregard for human life.\u201d<\/p>\n
\t\u201cThe ruthless efficiency with which these babies were exploited as a means to an end and used as a form of fuel, stripping them of the dignity and respect they were due as human beings, could indeed have been dreamt up by the Nazi regime.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tU.K. health minister Dan Poulter said the practices were \u201ctotally unacceptable,\u201d and the Department of Health immediately banned the practice.<\/p>\n
\tThe Channel 4 Dispatches episode about the practices was led by presenter Amanda Holdren, who previously suffered both a stillbirth and miscarriage.<\/p>\n
\tHer report also examined poor treatment of mothers and couples whose pregnancies miscarried; many were not consulted about how to dispose of their child\u2019s remains.<\/p>\n
\tTully suggested that the reluctance to consult families is \u201cundoubtedly linked to our barbaric abortion policies.\u201d<\/p>\n
\t\u201cThere are two issues at stake here. One is the feelings of the parents, and the other is the respect due to the dead \u2013 in this case a dead unborn child, killed by abortion or who has died as a result of spontaneous miscarriage.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tFarrow praised the quick action to end the disrespectful disposal of fetal remains, but questioned why the National Health Service did not question the morality of the practice before it became public.<\/p>\n
\tShe said the ban \u201cdoes not go far enough,\u201d as private abortion clinics still dispose of aborted children as \u201cclinical waste alongside soiled dressings, gloves and equipment.\u201d<\/p>\n
\t\u201cWe would like to see abortion clinics be subject to similar regulations in terms of not only informing the parents as what will happen to their unborn children but also offering them a choice of dignified options as to what to do with their baby's remains.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tFarrow offered prayers and \u201cdeepest sympathies and condolences\u201d to those whose children\u2019s remains were mistreated, also offering prayer and condolences \u201cto anyone who has suffered the tragedy of miscarriage or infant loss of any kind.\u201d<\/p>\n
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