SHOCK: More than 15,000 aborted babies were incinerated as ‘clinical waste’ by hospitals in the UK – with some used to actually heat the hospitals!
The foetal remains were taken to ‘waste-to-energy’ plants, which would incinerate them, along with other rubbish, and send the energy back as heat.
This is one of the most disgusting and abhorrent stories seen in a long time!
The bodies of thousands of aborted and miscarried babies were incinerated as clinical waste, with some even used to heat hospitals, an investigation has found.
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.
Last night the Department of Health issued an instant ban on the practice which health minister Dr Dan Poulter branded ‘totally unacceptable.’
At least 15,500 foetal remains were incinerated by 27 NHS trusts over the last two years alone, Channel 4’s Dispatches discovered.
The programme, which will air tonight, found that parents who lose children in early pregnancy were often treated without compassion and were not consulted about what they wanted to happen to the remains.
One of the country’s leading hospitals, Addenbrooke’s in Cambridge, incinerated 797 babies below 13 weeks gestation at their own ‘waste to energy’ plant. The mothers were told the remains had been ‘cremated.’
Another ‘waste to energy’ facility at Ipswich Hospital, operated by a private contractor, incinerated 1,101 foetal remains between 2011 and 2013.
They were brought in from another hospital before being burned, generating energy for the hospital site. Ipswich Hospital itself disposes of remains by cremation.
“This practice is totally unacceptable,” said Dr Poulter.
“While the vast majority of hospitals are acting in the appropriate way, that must be the case for all hospitals and the Human Tissue Authority has now been asked to ensure that it acts on this issue without delay.”
Sir Bruce Keogh, NHS Medical Director, has written to all NHS trusts to tell them the practice must stop.
The Chief Medical Officer, Dame Sally Davies, has also written to the Human Tissue Authority to ask them make sure that guidance is clear.
And the Care Quality Commission said it would investigate the programme’s findings.
Prof Sir Mike Richards, Chief Inspector of Hospitals, said: “I am disappointed trusts may not be informing or consulting women and their families.
“This breaches our standard on respecting and involving people who use services and I’m keen for Dispatches to share their evidence with us.
“We scrutinise information of concern and can inspect unannounced, if required.”
A total of one in seven pregnancies ends in a miscarriage, while NHS figures show there are around 4,000 stillbirths each year in the UK, or 11 each day.
Ipswich Hospital Trust said it was concerned to discover that foetal remains from another hospital had been incinerated on its site.
A spokeswoman said: “The Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust does not incinerate foetal remains.”
She added that the trust “takes great care over foetal remains”
A spokesman for the Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust said that trained health professionals discuss the options with parents ‘both verbally and in writing.’
why waste material at least the UK hospitals found uses unlike most clinics here in the states were there just thrown in the trash so the moral of this story is don’t be wasteful cause wastefulness is costing us too much
This is horrible! How is aborted babies waste material? Also, “though shall not kill”
This is disgusting
That is sickening, i think the hospial needs to be charged with some type of crime
Too sad for words!
Free $#%&!@*ing will. You’ve all got it, let other people have it too. Besides, what exactly is the procedure for a fetus after the abortion? Do you spend money on a burial plot? On funeral services? Would you be informing all your friends and family of such a “tragic” burial? I’d rather kill a child before it reaches an unacceptable age in the womb, than have it live a life of misery becuase of things like severe birth defects, or if one is in a terrible life situation. You wouldnt want to have a child if you were a homeless, filthy bum would you? Raise your kid on the streets, no education, no vaccinations. Dealing with disease and sickness and eventual child death. Now youre a neglectful parent becuase you just COULDNT get an abortion when you had the chance. Now you’ll both suffer. Does this seem like a defensible statement to abortion? Because if it doesnt, you people need to just mind your own business. Nobody tells you how to live your life but the government and only the government. Babies and unborn babies will potentially die anyway, thats a part of life, and life can sometimes be tragic. A person who has a child when they KNOW they wont be able to properly care for it, might as well be a child killer in my opinion. Abortion, for the right reason, is okay. Besides, have you people seen our global population lately? Earth is getting a little $#%&!@*ing crowded, humanity needs to either start having less babies, or we need to start dying off more. We are over populated.
the fires of hell will be a lot hotter and for all time for those invovled unless the come to Jesus …….John 3:16
oh please better than tossing them in the land fill. I personally think they need to be used for stem cell research but I guess energy is a good alternative. They will be aborted anyway might as well have some use.
And we wonder why the world is under judgement
Noah too bad your mom didn’t have your sentiment