Abortionists Appalled? Great!

Abortion proponents work hard to ensure the public that they have not painted themselves into a moral corner, but periodically, as with the partial birth abortion debates, their base and heartless immorality is laid bare for all to see.

Now, they've done it again. In Colorado, an abortionist is protesting the unjustness of giving aborted fetuses a proper and religious burial. According to the LATimes article (here):

BOULDER, Colo. — A Catholic church plans to bury the ashes of as many as 1,000 aborted fetuses Sunday, raising a storm of protest from those who accuse it of exploiting the pain and grief of women for political purposes.

The Sacred Heart of Mary Church obtained the ashes from a mortuary that had a contract to cremate remains from the Boulder Abortion Clinic. But the clinic said it didn't know the ashes were being given to the church.

"They have taken it upon themselves to make a macabre ritual out of this, inflicting pain on everyone," said clinic director Dr. Warren Hern. "I have women calling me who are very upset over this. These fanatics simply cannot leave other people alone with their most intimate sorrow."

The only other abortion proponent quoted is Planned [Anything But] Parenthood, which said:

"It's sad the church would take it upon itself to violate the doctor-patient relationship," said Kate Horle [tempting, but I won't go there...], spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains. "These women went to the doctor in confidence and made a difficult, personal decision. And now it's been dragged all over the media."

If a doctor threw medical records in the trash and someone saw them, would they howl about the doctor-patient relationship? Then how can they protest in this instance?

The story quotes none of the women Dr. Hern said have called him, upset by the church's action. I doubt that such women exist. The women who do exist are those who, the article says, periodically post little notes at the memorial the church built to the aborted babies. "Forgive me," says one note. "No less real. No less loved," says another.

The church is honoring the dead and giving the grieving an opportunity to heal.

The abortionists, by wanting everyone to pretend aborted babies are just trash to be thrown away, are once again putting the protection of their profits ahead of compassion for their patients, and the simplest of moral choices.