A baby who survived an abortion only to be disposed of in a biohazard bag filled with bleach and left in a closet is now getting a funeral.
The Miami Herald is calling it a “fetal funeral.” That wording just jumped out at me. They can’t even call her a baby. She was born. She kicked. She screamed. She was discarded. It’s amazing how much can be done with a word. A baby must be loved and cared for. A fetus can be thrown in a closet.
And now, even this baby’s funeral is being co-opted into a political event.
The Rev. O’Neal Dozier, pastor of the Worldwide Christian Center in Pompano Beach, will officiate, and American Independent Party presidential candidate Alan Keyes will deliver a eulogy. Dozier has invited the Rev. Jim McGarvey, director of development for Hope Women’s Centers.
“I don’t approach this issue from the standpoint of politics,” said McGarvey, “but it certainly has political implications because of Roe v. Wade . . . If [the funeral gets political, then so be it.”
My mind has a political bent and I tend to look at things at the macro level but I fear that this baby was never treated right- from the moment she was ripped from her mother’s womb to her much belated funeral.
October 14, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Here in Metro Detroit, there have been two separate funerals for aborted babies found in dumpsters outside of abortuaries – each of them presided by auxillary Bishop Quinn of the Archdiocese. Fr Frank Pavone provided the graveside eulogy at one of the funerals. Both funerals were well-attended, too.
Was there anything in the story that the Catholic Church is involved in this funeral?
October 14, 2008 at 1:44 pm
I didn’t see anything mentioning the Church.
And don’t get me wrong. I’m for a funeral. But I don’t want it politicized. Pray for the baby. Pray for the family. Pray for our country that allows this.
October 14, 2008 at 2:48 pm
While it is sad that this baby has been made to sacrafice so much in life and in death, I don’t think it is necessarily bad to politicize the event. The babies death was worse than meaningless, it was a murder committed for selfish reasons. However, if this funeral converts one person, or even strengthens the convictions, for life, than good can come from what is evil.
October 14, 2008 at 3:43 pm
I would suggest that this politicized the momentt the very thought of sticking a live baby in a bag full of bleach entered someone’s mind.
October 14, 2008 at 5:29 pm
On Touchstone’s Mere Comments there was a post about an abortionist in Spain who was grinding up dead babies so that pro life people couldn’t find them, take pictures of them, figure out how many weeks along they were, or give them funerals. It seems that no matter how ugly something is, it can always be worse.
Susan Peterson