Aborted babies incinerated to heat UK hospitals

[FlyingJesus]

They can and do ask

A spokesman for the Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust said that trained health professionals discuss the options with parents ‘both verbally and in writing.’

"The parents are given exactly the same choice on the disposal of foetal remains as for a stillborn child and their personal wishes are respected,” they added.

The outrage is from people who are neither involved nor educated on the matter

[God]

*+*THeY'Re NoT BaBiieS*+*

Good old anti-choice writers pretending that clusters of undeveloped and unsustainable cells are babies. If everything is its potential rather than its actuality then all of us are mass-murderers each time we exfoliate, and blowing ones nose is genocide of the highest order

I agree with ya Tom.

Also why isn't anyone getting pissed off for woman having periods (OMG KILLING A POTENTIAL BABY) Also for the Billions of Men who kill off their sperm.

WHAT ABOUT THE SPERM PEOPLE. ITS SPERMICIDE.

[Futz]

Why are you all shocked/sickened like this

The best thing to do to a lifeless corpse is to recycle or burn it???

**** did you want the govt to pay for 15,000 coffins, burials, funerals?

What else are they supposed to do with them, atleast this way we preserve some of the rarer fuels in the world

[Shar]

Indeed, they can't ask the mother because obviously she wouldn't care what happens to the foetuses hence the abortion. The hospital can't just bury hundreds of foetuses. It's blaming the hospital for the poor decisions of the patients.

Indeed, they can't ask the mother because obviously she wouldn't care what happens to the foetuses hence the abortion. The hospital can't just bury hundreds of foetuses. It's blaming the hospital for the poor decisions of the patients.

What the hell. What if there's another reason the mother is having a abortion such as fetal abnormalities?

[GommeInc]

What the hell. What if there's another reason the mother is having a abortion such as fetal abnormalities?

What bit are you focusing on? Should the hospital really be burying babies like this if not even the parents wanted them? Again, this is the duty of the mother/parents and already happens if they consent. Many crematoriums and cemeteries have special plots for babies who were aborted, still born or born and died shortly after if the parents so choose to have the body interred. If not, its get incinerated like with any other body parts. It's harsh, but hospitals, cemeteries and crematoriums can't take aborted bodies/foetuses and bury them.

As for mothers who have to abort children - read the first page. I pretty much said that - if the mother or baby will die in birth. I didn't mention quality of life but then again I'm not going to cite every reason and if the baby would have grown up disfigured or have a terrible quality of life it sort of goes without saying that an abortion may be the right option

[Shar]

What bit are you focusing on? Should the hospital really be burying babies like this if not even the parents wanted them? Again, this is the duty of the mother/parents and already happens if they consent. Many crematoriums and cemeteries have special plots for babies who were aborted, still born or born and died shortly after if the parents so choose to have the body interred. If not, its get incinerated like with any other body parts. It's harsh, but hospitals, cemeteries and crematoriums can't take aborted bodies/foetuses and bury them.

As for mothers who have to abort children - read the first page. I pretty much said that - if the mother or baby will die in birth. I didn't mention quality of life but then again I'm not going to cite every reason and if the baby would have grown up disfigured or have a terrible quality of life it sort of goes without saying that an abortion may be the right option

Ok fair enough I obviously missed that.

In regards to the topic at hand, as horrendous and upsetting as I find the matter, I do agree with the fact that we can't expect the NHS to bury every single aborted fetus.
I think I find the fact that some people would rather have the fetuses incinerated than bury them or something really upsetting.

[Chippiewill]

Why are we so surprised that a Hospital incinerates medical waste? It's basically cremation. I guess the idea that some of the systems generate heat is a little off-putting but let's be honest they're probably not netting additional heat from doing so, it just happens they don't fit multiple types of incinerators into hospitals. Probably because it's a waste of money.