Funeral for 25 Babies

H/T: Sancta Familia @ Mount Carmel Bloggers

On Saturday, May 3, 2008 there was a funeral in Michigan. Bishop John Quinn of Detroit offered the Mass for twenty-five babies who were murdered in nearby abortion mills, and their burial followed. The bodies of these babies were retrieved in February and March from the garbage dumpsters behind “Woman Care” abortion mills, owned and operated by abortionist Alberto Hodari.

PLEASE read this information about Alberto Hodari

Citizens for a Pro-life Society, headed up by Monica Miller, oversaw the proper retrieval and care for the babies’ bodies and organized the funeral.

This is no ordinary funeral. There are still so many who don’t even acknowledge that these babies were killed. To mourn these deaths publicly honors their lives. It also sounds a wake-up call to our nation that we are living amidst the biggest holocaust of all time.

Sancta Familia says, "Abortion has become too abstract. The word has lost its meaning. The conceptual knowledge that children are being killed is no longer enough to awaken many people to action. We need the funerals, we need to see the bodies, we need to hear the disgusting details of the abortions in order to be roused out of our moral slumber and end this killing once and for all."
Note from Soutenus: I think this may help some people awaken from their self delusional rationalizations but I strongly believe it will NOT affect many others. Those hard core pro-abortionist mind-sets see aborted babies in different ways:

1. akin to a cancer that needs to be cut out
2. as a mercy - better not to live than to be deformed, unwanted, mentally handicapped, poor, etc.
3. a freeing of souls who will find a different/better entry into the world (as in reincarnation)
   

Let's not forget how blood, gore and death is entertainment for many. Our culture has become hardened to these things. When the first "commercials" aired showing starving and sick children in 3rd world countries people wept. Now they turn the channel and say, "See, we don't need more of THAT. Let's use the modern technology we have to abort unwanted babies."

SF also states, "

"When abortionist Hodari disposed of these babies, he also threw the patient records into the dumpster. Sadly, that is the only issue on which he may get into trouble. Of course, carelessness with patient records should be punished. But when society will punish a man for the pieces of paper he threw in the garbage but excuse him for throwing babies into that same garbage, we have become guilty of straining the gnat and swallowing the camel. We have become far worse than the Pharisees of Jesus’ day.

Later this month the pro-life community of Dallas will pray at another grave, for the 25th year in a row, to honor aborted babies who are buried there…1300 of them! As Monica Miller so appropriately has stated, 'This tomb will be a place of refuge especially for grieving mothers and dads who regret that they made the decision to abort their children—a place of reconciliation.' Indeed, let the healing begin; but that can happen only when we first mourn the dead."

Details and photos of the babies here and at TEXT.

H/T: Sancta Familia @ Mount Carmel Bloggers
slightly edited by Soutenus
Read the interview of Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director, Priests for Life, at LifeSiteNews
extra source: Pro-Life Pulse - Jill Stenek