I read the incinerator headline today and was horrified.
But I do have a serious question - what is the proper way to dispose of a baby from a miscarriage?
Does it get a burial?
Many years ago my wife was pregnant. A few weeks in, she started bleeding badly...turns out it was a miscarriage. Now this was so early on, there wasn’t any ‘tissue’ that was visible to the naked eye. And frankly...she ran to the toilet...and that’s where everything went. We thought it was a complication and went to the doctor - tests were done and it had actually been a miscarriage.
I never gave it a second thought (as far as disposal was concerned). Until today.
I think them iscarriages referred to in the article would not be early ones, when there is not a lot of matter left, but ones late into the pregnancy, where the body must be removed. A friend of the family recently had a miscarriage right at the moment of birth, and they had a cremation service. I am not opposed to cremation.
This was not cremation. This was incineration. This was taking a shovel, dipping it into a bag of ‘medical waste’ and throwing the bodies of murdered and miscarried children into a fire in the basement. In some cases, the families of miscarried children were not even informed. Auschwitz exists in Britain today.