re: Aborted Babies from Canada being burned and used for power... UPDATE on Page 6

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It's people. Soylent Green is made out of people.

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I didn't realize how pure evil so many of you were.

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I didn't realize how pure evil so many of you were.

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People who believe in "evil" are dangerous.

Those who believe in evil will justify all manner of horrors to combat what they define as 'evil'.

If you see burning gall bladders for heat as a good thing, don't judge me as "evil" because I don't.

So why not just burn all dead bodies for electricity...

As is often the case, the chopper jockey is dead on. This is no big deal. Fetuses are not being gathered for the purpose of firing a furnace even if the furnace in which the fetuses are incinerated are used to provide power. Notice I did not say that abortion is no big deal or that the abortion question is "settled." (Declaring an issue "setted" is a favorite method of our president to avoid arguing the merits of an issue).

Practically, there's nothing wrong with what they're doing. Humanistically, though, I wonder what these types of practices does to the collective human conscience. I mean, is this the kind of devaluing of what we deem "human" that leads us to eventual social engineering or even the killing of 6 million Jews? Are there unintended consequences to looking at humans, even preformed humans, with value as a fuel source?

If the answer is even maybe yes, then simply burn them. Don't utilize them. There shouldn't be a desensitization and devaluing of humans in an effort to improve utility. You're not far from slavery or genocide when you reach that conclusion IMO, even if at first you don't realize it.


There is a debate right now at UMC Medical Center in Jackson about what to do with thousands of buried bodies from the State Lunatic Asylum dating back to 1855. They need to be moved to make room for expansion of important research facilities. One problem: It will cost $6 million to exhume the bodies and properly/respectfully relocate or cremate them.

These are bodies of people nobody claimed. Mentally ill people (back in those days thought to be possessed or any number of imaginative diagnoses) whose families simply dropped them off and certainly didn't claim them upon their death. The hospital had to do something with them.

The hospital, and the state, is now faced with an interesting choice of what to do. Do they bulldoze right over them and build over the top of them, or, unpractically, pay to have them exhumed?

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They shouldn't effect our conscience at all.

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Shouldn't is different than don't. They may shouldn't effect our conscience... it doesn't mean they don't. And if they do even in the slightest bit, what effect does that have on society? I'm not a psychologist, just raising the question.

This is just one more example of the continued moral decline of the western world. The sanctity of life is important. Once that fades, all is lost.

I, like many Catholics and christians, believe that life begins at conception. Fetus =/= skin biopsy

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I, like many Catholics and christians, believe that life begins at conception. Fetus =/= skin biopsy

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The fetus is dead and is to be disposed of through incineration. This isn't a question of the right and wrong of abortion. The "mother" has chosen she doesn't want the fetus after the abortion. Again, I ask, what difference does it make whether it is incinerated at the funeral home or the power plant?

For the record, I am Catholic and believe that life begins at conception. This isn't about life, it's about a corpse and in some cases a severed corpse.