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Exclusive: Federal agents found fetuses in body broker's warehouse (Warning: Graphic Images)
Reuters ^ | 26 Dec 2017 | John Shiffman, Brian Grow

Posted on 12/26/2017 6:50:59 AM PST by mandaladon

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal agents discovered four preserved fetuses in the Detroit warehouse of a man who sold human body parts, confidential photographs reviewed by Reuters show.

The fetuses were found during a December 2013 raid of businessman Arthur Rathburn’s warehouse. The fetuses, which appear to have been in their second trimester, were submerged in a liquid that included human brain tissue.

Rathburn, a former body broker, is accused of defrauding customers by sending them diseased body parts. He has pleaded not guilty and his trial is set for January.

How Rathburn acquired the fetuses and what he intended to do with them is unclear. Rathburn’s lawyers did not respond to requests for comment, and neither the indictment nor other documents made public in his case mention the fetuses.

“This needs to be reviewed,” said U.S. Representative Marsha Blackburn, a Republican from Tennessee who recently chaired a special U.S. House committee on the use of fetal tissue.

Blackburn recoiled when a Reuters reporter showed her some of the photographs, taken by government officials involved in the raid.

In four of the photos, a crime scene investigator in a hazmat suit uses forceps to lift a different fetus from the brownish liquid. In three other photos, a marker that includes a government evidence identification number lies beside a fetus.

“The actions depicted in these photos are an insult to human dignity,” said U.S. Representative Bob Goodlatte, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. A Republican from Virginia, Goodlatte said that if individuals “violate federal laws and traffic in body parts of unborn children for monetary gain,” they should be “held accountable.”

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Michigan; US: Tennessee; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: aboortion; abortion; arthurrathburn; bobgoodlatte; detroit; marshablackburn; michigan; prolife; tennessee; trump; virginia
Photos from inside Rathburn’s warehouse offered a stark example of government failures to police the industry. They include images of rotting human heads, some floating face up in a plastic cooler. The Federal Bureau of Investigation, which has been investigating Rathburn and other body brokers, declined to comment.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Sick!!!
1 posted on 12/26/2017 6:50:59 AM PST by mandaladon
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To: mandaladon

Why does this remind me of what was shown at Nuremberg?


2 posted on 12/26/2017 6:59:17 AM PST by CondorFlight
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To: mandaladon

I believe that people have been defrauded of body parts.

Most likely the ones referred to here are guilty of crimes against humanity by buying them.

But there are people in need of body parts who must wait for them to become available.

I think the morally right and fair thing to do for these desperately needy individuals is to acquire any needed body parts from judges, politicians, rich political contributors, college professors, journalists and media members, Planned Parenthood employees, and Democrats in general, and all who support abortion.

Properly dismembering pro-abortion Democrats (am I being redundant?) could supply the world with as many needed body parts as necessary. And it would be just.


3 posted on 12/26/2017 7:34:50 AM PST by unlearner (You will never come to know that which you do not know until you first know that you do not know it.)
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To: CondorFlight

Holocaust was horrific and yet the numbers killed in this holocaust since the 1970s are just as horrifying.


4 posted on 12/26/2017 7:47:26 AM PST by dp0622 (The Left should know that if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: CondorFlight

It is a reminder of Nuremburg because this Godless society is striving to exceed the inhumanity of the Naziis.

These abuses dissuade people from becoming organ donors or donating their bodies to ‘science’.

And abortion is murder, plain and simple.


5 posted on 12/26/2017 7:53:16 AM PST by Tarasaramozart
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To: mandaladon

Democrats are cannibals.


6 posted on 12/26/2017 7:58:15 AM PST by Titus-Maximus (It doesn't matter who votes for whom, it only matters who counts the votes - Joe Stalin)
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To: mandaladon

Just more evidence that the sanctity of human life has been abandoned. Any wonder why God is abandoning us?


7 posted on 12/26/2017 8:01:04 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: mandaladon
From 2016, Rathburn's wife...

Michigan woman pleads guilty to trading diseased body parts

8 posted on 12/26/2017 8:03:21 AM PST by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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To: CondorFlight

It is a reminder of Nuremburg because this Godless society is striving to exceed the inhumanity of the Naziis.

These abuses dissuade people from becoming organ donors or donating their bodies to ‘science’.

And abortion is murder, plain and simple.


9 posted on 12/26/2017 8:12:06 AM PST by Tarasaramozart
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To: mandaladon

I can’t share this thread because it is so horrific.

However, I am grateful that I have learned more about the depravity of some of these people.


10 posted on 12/26/2017 8:15:32 AM PST by bitt (The first to squeal gets the best deal.)
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To: bitt

Soul-less ghouls. May Righteous Justice find these worthless criminals.


11 posted on 12/26/2017 8:19:17 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: mandaladon
This is where I go to buy body parts...


12 posted on 12/26/2017 8:28:28 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
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To: mandaladon

When did trafficking in body parts become legal in the U.S.? I must have missed that.


13 posted on 12/26/2017 8:29:25 AM PST by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: mandaladon

Federal agents find body parts of dismembered babies


14 posted on 12/26/2017 9:59:14 AM PST by stockpirate (I've been blocked on FB for posting true stories about Mueller & sex claims aginst Trump)
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To: unlearner

Make organ donor-ship an inherent feature of being registered to vote as a Democrat.


15 posted on 12/26/2017 1:33:26 PM PST by HKMk23 (You ask how to fight an idea? Well, I'll tell you how: with another idea!)
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To: mandaladon

Dear Father in Heaven, please watch over those victims of murder. They could have been adopted by parents who want them - not murdered!! Sick...


16 posted on 12/26/2017 2:14:36 PM PST by ConservaTeen (Islam is Not the Religion of Peace, but The religion of Pedophilia...)
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