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: 5, Insightful) by NewNic on Thursday December 28 2017, @07:45PM (6 children)
This isn't the type of writing one should expect from a professional reporter. This is aimed at creating an emotional reaction, provoking a biased response.
It's not aimed at news reporting: instead, it is aimed at news creation.
lib·er·tar·i·an·ism ˌlibərˈterēənizəm/ noun: Magical thinking that useful idiots mistake for serious political theory
(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday December 28 2017, @07:51PM (4 children)
Appeal to emotion? They already got that covered when they threw the slightly pixellated photographs in there.
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(Score: 2, Touché) by Sulla on Thursday December 28 2017, @08:10PM (3 children)
Wow Takyon just wow, you dare imply that the normal reaction to seeing a CLUMP OF CELLS pickled in a jar of brain juice is to recoil from it?
Soylent should put on a series of diversity classes for the editors
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 3, Funny) by takyon on Thursday December 28 2017, @08:13PM (2 children)
We demand the uncensored photographs!!!
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 28 2017, @08:30PM (1 child)
like that weird Japanese porn pixellation - really annoying to see some guy's schlong going in and out of some monster from 8-bit Theatre.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday December 28 2017, @09:19PM
You can blame the Americans of the just-after-WWII era for that little bit of idiocy.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 28 2017, @08:56PM
Hahah, that's funny. We're talking about Reuters the Propaganda Company, not Journalism.