DETROIT, Oct. 28 (UPI) -- The apparently legal disposal of 17 fetuses in a Dumpster at a Michigan abortion clinic has antiabortion activists calling for new laws, observers say.
They renewed calls for legislation requiring cremation or burial of identifiably human remains of aborted fetuses, the Detroit Free Press reported Thursday.
An activist who lived near the WomansChoice clinic in Lansing retrieved the remains and turned them over to law enforcement authorities, said Monica Migliorino Miller, director of Citizens for a Pro-Life Society.
Miller said prosecutors for Eaton County told her because the fetuses had been treated with formaldehyde they could be legally disposed of with ordinary trash.
"When you look at these torn and crushed bodies, you're looking at something the human eye is not meant to see," Miller said.
A bill sponsored by Republican State Rep. Rick Jones would make the improper disposal of identifiably human, aborted remains a felony.
