Abortionist Planned to Burn Fetal Remains in a Bonfire

“I was so consumed with fetal tissue, I was ready to drive to northern Michigan and have a bonfire. I was just trying to find out how I wouldn’t get stopped, or how far into the woods I would have to go to have this fire that nobody was going to see me.”

That’s Michigan abortionist Renee Chelian speaking. Chelian is executive director of Northland Family Planning Centers, which operates clinics in the Detroit suburbs of Westland, Southfield and Sterling Heights.

She was discussing the dilemma she faced when a medical-waste vendor stopped accepting the remains of aborted fetuses, because he feared he’d be picketed. Chelian said,

“I had five months worth of fetal tissue in freezers, and we were renting freezers to put them in. It was all I thought about.”

The Detroit News reported that the problem of disposal to which Chelian referred, in a panel discussion at the meeting of the National Abortion Federation on disposal of fetal remains, followed a 2012 Michigan law regarding disposal of fetuses. That law–which mandated cremation or burial of remains, rather than disposal in trash dumpsters–was created after a pro-life protester discovered 17 fetuses in biohazard bags in a dumpster outside a Lansing-area abortion clinic in February 2010. At that time, prosecutors determined that the disposal was in technical compliance with state law.

The videos, which continue to expose the callous disregard with which abortion providers hold human life, were secretly recorded by pro-life activist David Daleiden’s group, the Center for Medical Progress. After the first six videos were released, a federal judge prohibited the release of additional footage until a lawsuit by the National Abortion Federation is resolved. However, the videos were subpoenaed by the U.S. House Oversight Committtee. The website GotNews.com released the remaining eleven videos, bypassing the prohibition since they reportedly obtained the videos from Congress.