Abortion protesters hold memorial for fetus at park

[Maddy McCall]

I could not make this up.



Photo by Joe Ellis/Clarion Ledger
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A memorial service for an aborted fetus concluded today without the planned burial in Smith Park.

The 11 a.m. service was part of an eight-day protest led by the anti-abortion group, Operation Save America, in an effort to shut down Jackson Women's Health Organization, the state's last remaining abortion clinic.

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Father Frank Pavone, director of Priests for Life, said the fetus, which is being preserved in a formaldehyde-like solution, will be buried in Alabama in a few months.

Pavone said he received the fetus from an anonymous pathologist who asked him to give it a proper burial. Pavone said the fetus was aborted at about 18 weeks. It has been used in demonstrations in New York and Columbus, Ohio, he said, and will be in several more before being buried.

Much more (oh so much more) at: http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060720/NEWS/60720008

[jonnyblitz]

1. LMFAO!!!

:rofl: :rofl:

oh i am gonna burn in hell for this but that is so fucking pathetic it is funny!!

I don't know if i dare click on that link!!

[Maddy McCall]

2. Go read it.

It gets worse. Or better. Depending on your perspective. :)

[jonnyblitz]

8. am i awful for finding this funny?

you have no idea how bad I despise these people. I have been through the guantlet of them with family members before and I wanted to rip their FUCKING heads off. we weren't even going in for a fucking abortion. :grr:

but I digress...

[Maddy McCall]

15. I think it's funny as shit.

I have a dark sense of humor, though.

[jonnyblitz]

31. well...

you know what an asshole I can be. :P

[Maddy McCall]

43. Most of my friends are!

"Birds of a feather," sez I!

(Maybe we can establish an Asshole Clique?)

:D

[Sal Minella]

34. You think Port-A-Fetus, Inc. would be a good start-up???

[MuseRider]

3. It was given to him

to give it a proper burial but not before they use it and use it for their own purposes.

[Maddy McCall]

6. I know!

Can you believe that? It might receive a "proper burial" in 2026, after it's thorougly decomposed and been dragged through every state in the union.

Muse, look at the kid in the lower left corner of the photo...WHAT kind of parent would EXPOSE their children to that???

These people are just freaks all the way around.

[CottonBear]

9. Rick Santorum needs to bring his kids. They love dead fetuses. n/t

[MuseRider]

14. The Phelps do that

I see it every day. Damned shame that people can't just guide their children and allow them the respect to make up their own minds as they age without the tremendous guilt this will add to that.

[Arkansas Granny]

44. This is what the good reverend said about children viewing this

The Rev. Flip Benham, the leader of Operation Save America, bristled at those who might question showing a fetus to children.

"This does not traumatize our children," Benham said. "This traumatizes the adults who would hide the horrors of abortion."


http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060720/NEWS/60720008

I think this is some of the sickest behavior that I have seen abortion protesters use to date. I previously thought that the blown up pictures of aborted fetuses were bad, but this is just over the top. No one in their right mind would take a small child to see a formaldehyde embalmed fetus and then give them a lecture on abortion. This is just sick!

[arcane1]

10. they use it for their twisted fetus fetishes

but show them a picture of a mangled dead Iraqi child, they'll ask you why you hate America :eyes:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

4. This is news?

:wtf:

[Maddy McCall]

7. I thought I might send it to Matcom--it is indeed strange.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

50. Maybe we should have memorial services for all the people who

are dying due to our fucked up environment...

Or how about a memorial service for all those kids who've been murdered in Iraq?

[CottonBear]

5. That's fucking sick. They are carting around a preserved fetus in a jar

and worshipping it while it is on a podium in a tiny casket?. They are taking it on a funeral tour?

Isn't there a commandment against worshipping false idols?

[bliss_eternal]

19. I've been approached by them at clinics

with fetus's in jars. Apparently any woman showing up at a clinic is there for an abortion (in their minds). It never occurs to them that you may be there for reproductive health care check up (pap), birth control, etc. They approach everyone the same way...shaking that damned fetus in a jar and waving their posters of bloodied, weeping fetuses at all concerned. It is absolutely sickening.

:puke:

As far as I'm concerned, these are the sickest people on the planet. Schizophrenics don't have shit on these idiots.

[zanne]

63. I agree that they're sick people.

Unfortunately, they're voting people, too. If only our get-out-the-vote strategies were more effective, we could beat these people.

[bliss_eternal]

11. Yet, they dare not consider it murder when they

kill abortion providers, bomb clinics, etc. None of them would dare take their sorry asses to the burials of soldiers, killed in this ridiculous war, but they would have a funeral for a fetus. Nice. If there is a hell, I hope these hypocritical, sick bastards burn in it.

:mad::crazy::puke:

Why don't they ask to be notified by local hospitals everytime a woman miscarries, and have funerals for them, too? :sarcasm: What a bunch of freaks!

Hi Maddy:hi: good to see you!

[Maddy McCall]

22. Hi, bliss!

Good to see you, too...

What are we doing meetin' up in a thread like this? :) :hi:

[MercutioATC]

12. In Ohio, that sounds like "Abuse of a Corpse" (O.R.C. 2927.01)

"§ 2927.01. Abuse of a corpse.

(A) No person, except as authorized by law, shall treat a human corpse in a way that the person knows would outrage reasonable family sensibilities.

(B) No person, except as authorized by law, shall treat a human corpse in a way that would outrage reasonable community sensibilities.

(C) Whoever violates division (A) of this section is guilty of abuse of a corpse, a misdemeanor of the second degree. Whoever violates division (B) of this section is guilty of gross abuse of a corpse, a felony of the fifth degree."

http://onlinedocs.andersonpublishing.com/oh/lpExt.dll?f=templates&fn=main-h.htm&cp=PORC


Using the corpse of a fetus for multiple mock burials sounds like it would outrage both "reasonable family" and "reasonable community" sensibilities.

[eggbeater]

27. but if they were charged as such

and found guilty, it would then end the argument as to if the embryo is a non human blob, or a human.
and once that is cleared up by the courts, the result could be that abortion might be considered murder.

watch what you wish for.

[RaleighNCDUer]

30. Bring them up on charges. It's a win/win.

Either they'd be convicted for abusing a corpse, with all the attendant jail and fines and a prohibition against doing it anymore,

or they'll be acquitted as the judge rules that the fetus does not qualify as a corpse, legally undermining their arguement.

[soup]

64. Oooh, you're good!

:thumbsup: :applause:

Doubt I'd have been able to come up with that in about a brazillion years.

Guess that's why you're 'evil DUer' :think: :bounce: and I'm just..... *sigh... soup :(

[arcane1]

13. abortion, Islam, and gays are one and the same, apparently

Anti-abortionists' burning of Quran called 'hateful'

Jackson Muslims and a statewide interfaith group reacted with disgust Wednesday to reports that the national anti-abortion group Operation Save America burned a Quran during a Tuesday night gathering at a Pearl church.

"A group that acts in such a hateful way does not really represent the word of God," said Emad Al-Turk, co-founder of the International Museum of Muslim Cultures in Jackson.

...

During a demonstration at the Capitol on Tuesday, anti-abortion activists tore up pages from the Quran, the Muslim holy book, along with a gay pride flag and copies of six U.S. Supreme Court rulings related to religion in public schools, sodomy and abortion.

http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060720/NEWS/607200393

[Endangered Specie]

16. so... who's up for a caption contest?

[Maddy McCall]

17. Go for it. I'm game.

:evilgrin:

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

18. Let's beat them at their own game

Let's start holding services for used tampons that represent the lost opportunity for life suffered by women every month.

Let's fill a casket with men's used kleenexes - you know what they were used for - and wail over their wasted potential.

"He was just a little squirt, and now he's gone!" *sniff*

Gah. Don't these idiots have any real-life shit to worry about? Send them to me. I'll give them my list.

:banghead:

[Maddy McCall]

21. Aack!

SWMBO said: "He was just a little squirt, and now he's gone!" *sniff*


:rofl:

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

25. Sure as shootin'...

Every sperm is sacred! :D :hi:

[Maddy McCall]

26. ...and unique.

You are killin me!!

:rofl:

[Lost-in-FL]

33. EWWWWWW!!!

:puke: :puke:

[bleedingheart]

20. People bring toddlers to these events?

I am so sorry that is really sick.

[kineneb]

56. Can we say

"child abuse"? I thought we could.

A friend who is an abuse survivor used to use that line on the Jehovah's Witnesses who came to her door, dragging little kids with them.

[Solly Mack]

23. Fetus on tour! Oh, golly!

Are the Fetus Ice Capades far behind?

Fetuses Across America!

STOMP! The Fetus Review!

Fetuses on Parade!

Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade float entry - Sponge-Bob Square Fetus!

And the NY Ballet production of The FetusCracker

My.My.My.

I'm not laughing.

[KamaAina]

40. Fetal beauty pageants

"See tomorrow's JonBenet wannabes, today!" :puke:

[Solly Mack]

41. Yikes! lol

You know, I was laughing earlier until I got finished with my post and realized "this" could happen...

[President Kerry]

24. RIP

Here lies Johnny X. 2007 - 2006

Those people need to get a life.

[daleo]

28. Brother Love's traveling salvation show

They care so much for this fetus that they use it as a stage prop.

[bluestateguy]

29. Strange

No doubt these are the same people who cheer on the Iraq War and could never be bothered to spend 5 minutes mourning a single civilian killed over there.

[Lost-in-FL]

32. "America will not reject abortion,

"America will not reject abortion until America sees abortion," Pavone said. "Before we even start talking about whether it is right or wrong we want to help people see what abortion looks like."

So if they witness government sponsored murder aka DEATH PENALTY, would that make them change their minds about death penalty?

[Master Mahon]

35. Why wasn't it kept on life support

for 20 years like poor Terri Schiavo???

[TrogL]

36. He should be charged with desecration of a corpse

Bury it already.

[Ilsa]

37. Abortion at 18 weeks is likely due to severe genetic abnormalities.

Most likely is Down's Syndrome, but it could very well be other abnormalities that if permitted to continue, would eventually result in the birth of a baby that doctors would have to try to save in the face of near-certain death. Pain and suffering would be likely.

I wonder if the pathologist ran a genetic test and gave those results to the anti-choice person (not that it matters to them).

[Straight Shooter]

38. Did the mother/carrier of the fetus give permission for this charade?

I doubt it.

Abortion is an intensely personal experience. What right do these people have, and what right did the priest have, to use a woman's trauma to advance their hypocritical agenda?

Memorials for miscarriages, I understand that completely. This grotesque display of caring about an aborted fetus, while children in their own country are being abused sexually and physically, while pregnant women, and children, are dying in Iraq from our warmongering, makes me nauseous.

[redqueen]

61. I was wondering that, too... did the doctor do this with permission?

What sick, twisted, crazy wastes of oxygen these people are.

I wonder how many memorials they've held for the innocent children who have died in Iraq!

[bluerum]

39. I have some stained bed sheets that need to be buried too.

[Rex]

42. Mental illness.

To stand and cry over a casket with a fetus on display. No wonder this country is fucked!

[Maddy McCall]

45. More info from the local news station:

The Fetus is named Rebecca.

The news is showing MANY MANY parents and grandparents bringing kids of all ages--babies to teens--and picking up the little ones and holding them over the coffin so that they can see the baby.

I told y'all. They're freaks!

Edit to add: The pro-choice spokesman came off as being the intelligent, sane person in the interviews in that news segment. He questioned people bringing their children to the display of a fake fetus. He said that the fetus is not real.

The pro-lifer they interviewed came off as a NUT. He said that there was nothing wrong with showing kids a fetus. That they needed to see murder so that they could oppose it when they get older.

[Solly Mack]

46. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Fundie Farm for Fetus Funerals

National spokes-fetus...

[Maddy McCall]

47. I think she's a Fetus Impersonator from Vegas.

"A hunka hunka burnin...."

Never mind. :freak:

[Solly Mack]

49. ROFLMAO

I think I saw that expose on Jerry Springer!

[Maddy McCall]

51. I think it might have been Maury.

The fetus said, "I am not that daddy's baby!" after the DNA results came back.

:crazy:

[Solly Mack]

52. You're killing me!!! lololololol

[redqueen]

62. so now it's a FAKE fetus?

what the hell kind of sick game are these psychos playing?

:grr:

[soup]

65. "He said that there was nothing wrong

with showing kids a fetus. That they needed to see murder so that they could oppose it when they get older."

The interview was cut short when he announced the kiddies needed to leave to catch a double-feature ("Dead Man Walking" and "the Green Mile"), after which they were gathering for an evening of viewing uncensored war footage...


Who ARE these people???

[KingFlorez]

48. Where is a big cloudburst of rain when you need it?

Sorry, I know that was kind of mean, but these people are really, really sicko

[TroglodyteScholar]

53. LOL n/t

[stepnw1f]

54. Mental Illness

Chosing a less than noble cause to show emotion, when it's probably other REAL issues these idiots ignore all the time. Really sad...

[HockeyMom]

55. Looks like a coffin for a 1 year old

At 18 weeks, I wasn't even wearing maternity clothes. The fetus is only about 5 inches long and a couple of ounces at that stage. You only can feel a slight "fluttering" at that point. Too small to really feel kicks at that point.

I guess they don't think any of us pro choice women are mothers?

[Vogon_Glory]

57. Spare Your Tears, Honey

Spare your tears, Honey. Save them for the mothers and babies your pet so-called "pro-life" politicos have continued to shaft since 1993 by gutting funding for women's and children's health programs either to promote "fiscal responsibility" or because the pols wanted to show they were "against abortion."

:sarcasm:

[saigon68]

58. demonstrators verbally abused patients and staff as they entered and exite

So much for the religion of peace

i wonder if the priest "snuggled up" to the few children in the crowd (the boys especially)
LOL

[JNelson6563]

59. I've got a picture for them to cry about

Thank bible-god that this child got a chance at "life".

:puke:

[Joe Bacon]

60. So when are these fools going to adopt those 400,000 snowflakes?

C'mon you ignorant twits, line up and get to work on those snowflakes! King George needs 'em for his Christian Army!