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Shocking photo: late-term aborted baby lies in open casket at city hall funeral (Graphic Alert!)
Life Site News ^ | July 25, 2011 | JOHN-HENRY WESTEN

Posted on 07/25/2011 3:57:31 PM PDT by NYer

Esther in her coffin at the service at which pro-life activists honored her body and her life.

Orlando, FL, July 25, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On this past Thursday, July 21, Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, preached at a memorial service for an aborted baby girl.

The child was intact and her body was retrieved after a late-term abortion. The memorial service, organized by Operation Save America, was held outside of City Hall in Orlando.

“We are here because this baby was killed in the darkness, and we come to honor her in the bright light of day,” Fr. Pavone declared in his remarks. “The abortion industry wants to hide the violence done to these children, but we must be committed to expose it. Therefore we need to hold many more of these services, with tens of thousands of people looking at these children and recommitting themselves to end abortion.”

During the service, the name “Esther” was given to the child.

Fr. Frank invited any pro-life activists who obtain the remains of aborted children to be in contact with him to arrange for a proper wake service and burial.

It’s not the first time that aborted babies are afforded funerals.  In 2008, Detroit Bishop John Quinn offered a funeral for 18 aborted babies whose bodies were discovered in dumpsters at the Woman Care abortuary.  Later that same year, Fr. Pavone offered a funeral for three aborted babies at the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament that EWTN’s Mother Angelica built in Hanceville, Alabama.  In 2010, Michigan Bishop Earl Boyea celebrated a funeral mass for 17 aborted children.
http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/17-abortion-victims-to-be-buried-in-catholic-funeral-in-michigan

Legislation on the matter was passed in 2001 in the Czech Republic when President Vaclav Havel signed into law a bill regarding funeral arrangements which included a clause ensuring that the remains of aborted babies receive a proper burial.  In 2010, in Michigan a bill was proposed to protect the remains of aborted babies from being simply discarded as biohazardous waste.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: abortion; babykillers; deathindustry; dumpsterdiving; infanticide; moralabsolutes; murder; prolife
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1 posted on 07/25/2011 3:57:39 PM PDT by NYer
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To: netmilsmom; thefrankbaum; Tax-chick; GregB; saradippity; Berlin_Freeper; Litany; SumProVita; ...

Catholic ping!


2 posted on 07/25/2011 3:58:20 PM PDT by NYer ("Be kind to every person you meet. For every person is fighting a great battle." St. Ephraim)
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To: NYer

They hide photos of 9 -11 too.
Look at what folks are doing, murdering babies


3 posted on 07/25/2011 4:01:26 PM PDT by Joe Boucher ((FUBO))
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To: NYer

Sometimes we must look evil in the eye

That doesn’t mean we don’t throw up at what we see.

Which is what I just did...


4 posted on 07/25/2011 4:02:16 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Herman Cain 2012)
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To: NYer

God bless that angel.


5 posted on 07/25/2011 4:03:07 PM PDT by truthkeeper (Vote Against Barack Obama in 2012!)
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To: NYer
"Let them see what they have done"
6 posted on 07/25/2011 4:03:07 PM PDT by rightly_dividing
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To: NYer

Many still refuse to think unborn babies are really babies


7 posted on 07/25/2011 4:04:01 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: GeronL

We have “courageous” leaders like Baraq Hussein Obama devoted to protecting the rights of murderers. It makes me want to puke that my fellow “Catholics” Biden, Kennedy, Kerry, Sebelius and Pelosi are numbered in this evil horde.


8 posted on 07/25/2011 4:08:58 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: NYer

That photo makes me weep; I have a 3-month old daughter who I adore...these maggot Commies make me sick....

They picket and hold candlelight vigils for the illegal Mexican who rapes and murders a young girl but support the killing of innocent children.


9 posted on 07/25/2011 4:09:32 PM PDT by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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To: NYer

America is going to pay dearly for the barbarianism of abortion, not to mention the gruesome, late-term killing of pre-born babies.


10 posted on 07/25/2011 4:09:35 PM PDT by WXRGina
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To: nascarnation
Don't be fooled, Biden, Kennedy, Kerry, Sebelius and Pelosi are not true believers. If they were, they would not stand for this. They are pretenders and will hopefully pay the price of their hypocrisy in the afterlife.
11 posted on 07/25/2011 4:13:55 PM PDT by demkicker (Helping Democrats Become Extinct)
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To: demkicker

as you noticed I put “Catholic” in quotes.


12 posted on 07/25/2011 4:16:07 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: NYer

May they all rot in eternal hell. That poor child never had the chance it deserved. It breaks my heart.


13 posted on 07/25/2011 4:18:00 PM PDT by mojitojoe ( 1400 years of existence & Islam has 2 main accomplishments, psychotic violence and goat curry)
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I live in Orlando , this didn’t make the local news , radio , TV or Newspaper...


14 posted on 07/25/2011 4:18:09 PM PDT by Neidermeyer
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To: GeronL

As my memory has lapsed much in the past 22 years, I do remember though the actual day I first heard my second baby’s heartbeat. I was about 12 weeks along. My husband and I were invited over to the hospital at Langley Air Force Base in VA by a nurse midwife with whom we went to church, and said she thought she could find the baby’s heartbeat if we were interested; of ccourse, we were! Once there, after a good 40-45 minutes of using the fetal doppler, stethoscope, etc. (I don’t remember all the details), she said “I found it!” She gave the scope to my husband who heard David’s heartbeat and he started crying, right there. Then, I heard it! I too started crying...it sounded very faint and very far away...but there was no mistaking - our baby’s heart was beating, we heard it, and he was only about 11-12 weeks along. I’ll never forget it as long as I live. Now, he’s 6’3” and almost 22. How truly blessed we have been!


15 posted on 07/25/2011 4:19:40 PM PDT by nfldgirl
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I can take you right now to 5 cemeteries that have little tiny graves of babies that were stillborn. One of those cemeteries is in the middle of nowhere and reflects 19th century deaths.

Some people used to think of babies and children differently.


16 posted on 07/25/2011 4:20:20 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto.)
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To: NYer

speechless...and sad


17 posted on 07/25/2011 4:20:20 PM PDT by floozy22
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To: nascarnation

For many the Catholic Church is a cultural tradition handed down from generation to generation. It does not have anything to do with its teachings or the faith. It is going through the motions as the social thing to do without the benefits of the Holy Spirit.

One thing the Catholic Church should change is when Baptism is performed. Baptism should occur as the result of a person’s commitment to Christ; not some formality performed on a baby. This type of ritualized behavior sets the stage for the idea that if you engage in the ritual, you will be given the blessing even if you have no idea what the ritual means. This does not encourage spiritual growth and certainly does not give Catholics, so detached from the faith, a moral conviction about homosexuality and abortion.


18 posted on 07/25/2011 4:23:03 PM PDT by jonrick46 (2012 can't come soon enough.)
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To: truthkeeper

And may God bless Fr. Pavone for all that he does.


19 posted on 07/25/2011 4:24:57 PM PDT by FES0844
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To: NYer

RIP.


20 posted on 07/25/2011 4:26:09 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
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