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More 'Dumpster' babies buried after Livonia clinic find
by Robert Delaney of The Michigan Catholic
Published July 11, 2008
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Robert Delaney | The Michigan Catholic
Fr. Frank Pavone, president of Priests for Life, conducts the graveside ceremony for the aborted babies, whose remains are in the small white casket at lower right. |
Detroit — The remains of seven more aborted babies were given a Christian funeral and burial June 27, the result of Citizens for a Pro-Life Society's investigations of just what local abortion clinics are throwing out in their trash.
This time the remains were of babies found in the trash behind the Women's Advisory Clinic on Six Mile Road in Livonia in April. Auxiliary Bishop John Quinn presided at their funeral at Assumption of the Blessed Virgin (Grotto) Church in northeast Detroit.
"Whereas these babies were treated violently, we treat them gently," Bishop Quinn said in his homily. He praised the efforts of those who found the remains, and also the approximately 500 people who nearly filled the church for the funeral Mass.
"You and I are saying to the world, 'We've had enough! We are here to witness to the value of every human being,'" the bishop continued.
"We know that death is no more in Christ, and that these babies have been raised to new life in Christ. We stay united in our desire to bring change in this land, and to be true to Christ," Bishop Quinn added. Citizens for a Pro-Life Society received widespread attention just last month when aborted babies found behind a Lathrup Village abortion clinic were given a funeral at St. Gerald Church in Livonia and buried in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery.
While the improper disposal of the babies and other medical waste associated with the abortions brought the abortion clinic a reprimand from the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, the Oakland County Prosecutor's Office is weighing whether charges should be brought in connection with the improper disposal of medical records that were found.
While still keeping up their monitoring of Dr. Alberto Hodari, owner of the Lathrup Village clinic, CPLS also began checking the trash behind two clinics owned by Dr. Reginald Sharpe.
The initial discoveries at the Women's Advisory Clinic were made by CPLS activists Lynn Mills and Jenni Nelson.
At a press conference in front of the Livonia clinic the morning of June 27, Monica Migliorino Miller, director of CPLS, told of the discovery of remains of the aborted babies on April 5: "As we separated out the blood-soaked, blue-colored surgical papers, my student, John Brick, was the first to see the foot, about three-quarters of an inch in length. We also found other body parts from other aborted babies – eyes, rib cages, spinal columns, eyes out of their sockets – the remains of human beings mixed in with blood-saturated trash."
A video documenting the discoveries on that day and two later dates can be seen on the CPLS Web site, www.prolifesociety.org.
Fr. Frank Pavone, president of Priests for Life, conducted the graveside ceremony in Assumption Grotto Cemetery, behind the church.
"The culture of death says we are responsible only for those we choose to be responsible for; but the culture of life says we are responsible before we choose. These children, and so many like them, are being killed in publicly advertised fashion.
"Therefore, we do repent – repent of not having done more, of not having spoken up more, to bring this chilling holocaust to an end," Fr. Pavone said.
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