U.K. horror story

At first glance it looks like a scene from some low-budget horror movie or, even more grotesque, a war crimes testimony from the Nazi era. Ten of Britain’s National Health Service governing units have admitted to lumping together the remains of unborn and miscarried children with other hospital waste in incinerators over the last two years to generate power for heat.

If this was one hospital or even a handful of hospitals we could conclude that it was a mistake, a horrible error, but these are 10 area authorities which means several dozen hospitals, one of which actually imported aborted babies from other hospitals in a deliberate campaign. We now know more than 15,000 aborted and miscarried babies in Britain were incinerated as “clinical waste” for heating purposes. They were listed under what was euphemistically known as the “waste-to-energy” policies.

This all came to light when Britain’s Channel 4 television network — hardly a friend of the pro-life community — aired a documentary exposing hospital policy. It’s significant that the host of the piece only referred to miscarried babies and never once to abortion, but within hours of the documentary even the BBC was specifically addressing the abortion aspect of the monstrosity.