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Federal Agents Found Preserved Fetuses During 2013 Raid of a Detroit Body Broker's Warehouse

posted by Fnord666 on Thursday December 28 2017, @07:07PM   
from the occupation:-body-broker dept.

takyon writes:

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

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• ''they're corpses'' (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 28 2017, @09:24PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 28 2017, @09:24PM (#615272)

  ...and the fetuses are intact.
  If they were the result of a surgical abortion, they'd be in pieces.
  What occurred to me first is miscarriage (underdeveloped and stillborn).

  N.B. Miscarriage is generally accepted as being the woman's body recognizing that the fetus is not viable and expelling it.

  Now, that still leaves the possibility of the woman (by choice or by chance) ingesting a substance that induced a spontaneous abortion.
  Outside of the places where the (male) Uterus Nazis have gotten their way, that's still a legal choice.

  ...and to our very own Uterus Nazis:
  "If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament." --Florynce Kennedy
  (Often erroneously attributed to Gloria Steinem)

  -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

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