Aborted babies incinerated to heat UK hospitals

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Atreus21

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So you think they're sent there for their heating properties? And please detail for us exactly what these standards of humane-ness are.

These standards of humane-ness are that human beings are precious, and for that reason are not to be defiled in life or death. Human remains should be shown some respect.
 

Hugo Drax

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It's better to abort them now than letting them grow up unwanted and become a criminal later. It is more expensive to kill them as an adult via the long death penalty process.
 

IronWing

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"Ten NHS trusts have admitted burning foetal remains alongside other rubbish while two others used the bodies in ‘waste-to-energy’ plants which generate power for heat."
You can throw a water baloon in an incinerator. It doesn't magically mean the water is adding to the heat production.
 

Atreus21

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It's better to abort them now than letting them grow up unwanted and become a criminal later. It is more expensive to kill them as an adult via the long death penalty process.

How on earth do you know they're going to become criminals? How do you know anything about the child?

Perhaps we should kill children who are already born using this logic. Perhaps we should execute anyone who we deem to be a potential burden on society.
 

Jimzz

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The water content of a freshly dead fetus would void it's utility as a fuel. Drying out the fetus to the point necessary for combustion of the carbohydrates in the fetus would require more energy than produced by said combustion. In other words, the fetii were not being used for fuel, they were being cremated, a common method for disposing of remains.

Short version: More word games from the fetus fetish folk.



Sorry but this does not have a good catchy dirty headline so it will be ignored.

"OMG they heat their homes with aborted babies, next they will eats tham!!!" /right wing nutter news
 

Hugo Drax

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How on earth do you know they're going to become criminals? How do you know anything about the child?

Perhaps we should kill children who are already born using this logic. Perhaps we should execute anyone who we deem to be a potential burden on society.

Crime in the us dropped since abortion has been legal.
 

dank69

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Because you won't set up the new medical waste handling process required to ensure that this waste won't accidentally get mixed in with all the other waste while still being handled safely. Just one extra bucket, amirite?
 

IronWing

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Using human remains for anything is wrong, and it's made all the worse by the fact that these are children.
You better stop eating, drinking, and breathing then. Nutrient cycling and all that. It is all but impossible that you have not incorporated the remains of the dead into your very bones.
 

Atreus21

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You better stop eating, drinking, and breathing then. Nutrient cycling and all that. It is all but impossible that you have not incorporated the remains of the dead into your very bones.

Yes, I know that. That doesn't mean we should be eating human remains if it's efficient.
 

Atreus21

Lifer
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Because you won't set up the new medical waste handling process required to ensure that this waste won't accidentally get mixed in with all the other waste while still being handled safely. Just one extra bucket, amirite?

Human remains are not medical waste.
 

Texashiker

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Dec 18, 2010
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Genocide at its finest.

The skin of jews was used to make stuff like lamp shades.

So why not use aborted children for heat. The skin of aborted children is probably too weak to make a belt or shoes out of.

If the aborted child is just a clump of unwanted cells, why not make dog or cat food out of them? Just think of how many chickens we could save from being made into dog and cat food if we started using aborted children.
 

Londo_Jowo

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An aborted fetus is considered medical waste in the US and many states require that the medical waste be incinerated. Waste to energy plants are required by the EPA to maintain a furnace temperature above a certain temperature to ensure no toxins are released to the atmosphere. Based on this requirement any medical waste brought to a waste to energy plant will be incinerated in accordance with the law.
 

brycejones

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Oct 18, 2005
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Genocide at its finest.

The skin of jews was used to make stuff like lamp shades.

So why not use aborted children for heat. The skin of aborted children is probably too weak to make a belt or shoes out of.

If the aborted child is just a clump of unwanted cells, why not make dog or cat food out of them? Just think of how many chickens we could save from being made into dog and cat food if we started using aborted children.

I'm glad you aren't going to the bat shit extreme or anything. You and the OP need to start a fund to pay for whatever it is you consider "proper disposal". The reality is it is medical waste under just about any definition and should be treated as such. And the thread title is deliberately wrong and misleading for reasons pointed out above.
 

dawp

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Jul 2, 2005
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should have been used to generate electricity and fed into the grid.
 

Texashiker

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I'm glad you aren't going to the bat shit extreme or anything. You and the OP need to start a fund to pay for whatever it is you consider "proper disposal".

What world do you live in where you are blind to genocide?

How can society condemn throwing a dead jew in an incinerator, but an aborted child is ok?