February 9, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) — An “investigation” by a Columbus television station into what happens to the remains of babies aborted by Planned Parenthood affiliates in Ohio shows how easy it is to miss the forest for the trees.
Following up on state Attorney General Mike Dewine’s conclusion that the way Planned Parenthood disposes of aborted babies is “inhumane,” the crack news staff WBNS didn’t look into what “humane disposal of bodies” — the forest — means. Instead, they launched a detailed investigation into the trees — the difference between autoclaving (the process disposal companies use to treat medical waste) and cremation (the only legally acceptable alternative to burial for human bodies).
Autoclaving, for those who don’t know, heats waste with steam and then uses pressure to compact it into what looks like cellulose insulation or pipe tobacco. This dry, powdery substance can then be mixed in with garbage at landfills or, in the case of medical waste, at special solid waste disposal sites.
The disposal company contacted by WBNS obligingly autoclaved a batch of kitchen garbage, including “meat scraps” (an effort, though no one came right out and said so, to approximate the dismembered remains of aborted babies). Reporter Nathan Baca then sifted the results through his fingers, demonstrating that it had no resemblance to mangled human flesh, blood, bones, and organs.
But what the results of autoclaving looks and feels and smells like, however interesting, is beside the point. The point is that autoclaving and shipping to a garbage site is a process used for garbage, and cremation is a process used to prepare human bodies for burial.
The difference is simple: If you are in a car accident and lose a leg, of if you have lung cancer and have a lung removed, no one requires that you bury or cremate your leg or your lung. They are disposed of as medical waste, however that is done in any particular country. But if you die in a car accident or from lung cancer, your body is treated however your country treats a body — in the United States, that means burial or cremation. Your body is not dismembered, mixed with other dismembered bodies and all the other hospital waste, autoclaved, and sent to a solid waste disposal site.
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Whether human bodies are autoclaved or dumped in plastic garbage bags and set out at the curb makes a difference in terms of sanitation and public health, but dead babies in garbage dumps are still dead babies in garbage dumps — no matter how many steps come between killing them in the first place and mixing them with trash, or how specialized the garbage dump. A society that treats human bodies as garbage is inhumane.
If you care more about whether the Attorney General says “landfill” rather than the more precise term “solid waste disposal site,” you are caring about the wrong thing. If you care more that he uses the colorful term “cooking” rather than the correct term “autoclaving,” you are caring about the wrong thing. If you care more about what temperature autoclaves and cremation ovens reach than about what they are autoclaving or incinerating, you are caring about the wrong thing. You are missing the forest for the trees. Here’s the forest: Every year, Ohio Planned Parenthood abortion centers throw away thousands of human bodies with their trash. In Cincinnati, more than 2500 bodies. The people who “care, no matter what” have been crossing their fingers and hoping that no one would notice.
And more than that, they hope you don’t think about why they have thousands of bodies to dispose of in the first place.