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PHILADELPHIA, PA, July 15, 2013 (LifeSiteNews) – Pro-life activists, led by Priests for Life, will go to the office of Philadelphia Medical Examiner Dr. Sam Gulino on Friday morning to pray for the victims of abortionist Kermit Gosnell, who was recently convicted of first-degree murder for severing the spines of babies born alive after botched late-term abortions. 

Dozens of babies’ bodies were found in Gosnell’s filthy West Philadelphia abortion clinic in 2010, stored in jars, milk cartons, and other containers in the freezer and throughout the facility.  Their remains were taken to the medical examiner’s office as evidence in Gosnell’s trial.  Since then, despite offers from the local Catholic archdiocese and Priests for Life to give the infants burial services, the bodies remain stored at Gulino’s office.

Fr. Frank Pavone of Priests for Life said the group hopes to call attention to the indignity of human remains being stored at the medical examiner’s office rather than being given proper burial. 

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“It is bad enough that these children were killed, whether in the womb or outside the womb,” Pavone said in a statement. “But their bodies have still not been buried, despite the offer of Priests for Life to conduct proper funeral services and burials, and the assistance likewise offered by funeral homes and other interested persons from around the nation.”

“As a reminder of their humanity, and as a sign of our solidarity with them,” said Pavone, “Priests for Life is holding a prayer service on Friday, July 19, from 10 to 11 a.m. in front of the building where they are being kept, at 321 University Ave., Philadelphia.”  

Added Pavone, “If the Medical Examiner will not bring these babies to us, then we will go to them.”   

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Pavone will be joined by Priests for Life youth director Bryan Kemper and pastoral associate Kevin Burke in leading the service, along with Rev. Patrick Mahoney of the Christian Defense Coalition. 

Said Pavone, “The purpose of this prayer service is to commend these babies, their families, and those who killed them, to the love and mercy of Almighty God, in whose hands are the lives of us all. We seek to continue to shed light on the fact that these children are our brothers and sisters, and that their bodies are sacred and must be reverenced.”  

Pavone said his group plans to hold a major national funeral service for the children in the near future.  He also said he hopes the brutal murders will expose the reality of abortion, since the actions that killed the infants would have been legal in many jurisdictions had they been performed just a few moments earlier, inside the bodies of the mothers. 

“We seek … to shed light on the violence of abortion, which killed these children,” Pavone said. “The killing of a child is equally wrong whether it is carried out inside the womb or outside the womb. It is the violence itself that must end; the place where it occurs is secondary.” 

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