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Exclusive: Federal agents found fetuses in body broker's warehouse (Warning: Graphic images)
Federal agents discovered four preserved fetuses in the Detroit warehouse of a man who sold human body parts, confidential photographs reviewed by Reuters show. The fetuses were found during a December 2013 raid of businessman Arthur Rathburn's warehouse. The fetuses, which appear to have been in their second trimester, were submerged in a liquid that included human brain tissue. Rathburn, a former body broker, is accused of defrauding customers by sending them diseased body parts. He has pleaded not guilty and his trial is set for January.
How Rathburn acquired the fetuses and what he intended to do with them is unclear. Rathburn's lawyers did not respond to requests for comment, and neither the indictment nor other documents made public in his case mention the fetuses.
"This needs to be reviewed," said U.S. Representative Marsha Blackburn, a Republican from Tennessee who recently chaired a special U.S. House committee on the use of fetal tissue. Blackburn recoiled when a Reuters reporter showed her some of the photographs, taken by government officials involved in the raid.
Reuters: The Body Trade
(Score: 2, Touché) by Freeman on Thursday December 28 2017, @07:35PM (2 children)
It depends on how the babies were acquired. You're automatically jumping to a "routine abortion", when it could have been an abortion due to medical issues, or some other thing, like the mother died. Since Abortion also, isn't against the law in many places, there would be no murder charges. We don't live in a country where we apply laws retroactively, thankfully.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 28 2017, @08:50PM
Yeah let's go with the 0.1% probability answer and stick our heads back in the sand.
(Score: 2) by sjames on Thursday December 28 2017, @10:27PM
But if he doesn't whine and moan about abortion AND birth control, how's he going to whine about poor people having babies and liberals actually trying to implement the policies suggested by the Bible?