Busybody
We are ALL BUSYBODY!
- Joined
- Jan 23, 2011
- Posts
- 55,323
An investigative report has revealed that in the UK over the past two years, more than 15,500 miscarried and aborted fetuses were labeled as “clinical waste,” incinerated and, in some cases, used to generate power to heat hospitals.
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.
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.
The government will be following up on the report with its own investigation. Meanwhile, it has issued an immediate ban on the practice. UK’s Health Minister, Dr. Dan Poulter, stated that while most of the country’s hospitals are not participating in this act, the few that are will face serious consequences if they continue to do so.
Those who have learned about the practice are concerned that something so insensitive and appalling could happen on such a large scale without being noticed. Unfortunately, it is a tragic but real example of the types of things that can go unnoticed in a government-run healthcare system.
If something like this were to happen in the United States’ healthcare system (and plenty of heinous things do take place), it would be identified quickly and the person responsible would be jailed, as seen by the example of “House of Horrors” abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell.
In the UK, this went on for years and was, rather than an isolated incident, actually a widely used policy before it was addressed. And it’s not the first horror story to come out of the UK’s National Health System:
The Scottish Daily Mail reported on three brutal killings that might have been prevented were it not for a “catalogue of failings by a (NHS-operated) mental health trust.” One of the men had been refused treatment for failing to register with a local doctor.
An investigation by the U.K. Daily Telegraph found that some patients are forced to wait up to eight hours inside ambulances because there are not enough beds inside hospitals.
In March, the Daily Mail reported “Nearly 1,200 people have starved to death in NHS hospitals” because “nurses are too busy to feed patients.”
By nature, a collectivist approach to social welfare leads to the degradation of the value of individual human life. A person becomes just another number to be processed, just another means to the state’s end, and the value of human life diminishes as a result.
Human life, no matter how long or short it is, deserves to be treated with respect. It’s hard to see that happening with monstrous government bureaucracies determining the health and running the lives of citizens.
Today, it may be aborted and miscarried fetuses; in the future, it may be something altogether more ghastly. This is what history should remind us, even as we might like very much to forget.
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.
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.
The government will be following up on the report with its own investigation. Meanwhile, it has issued an immediate ban on the practice. UK’s Health Minister, Dr. Dan Poulter, stated that while most of the country’s hospitals are not participating in this act, the few that are will face serious consequences if they continue to do so.
Those who have learned about the practice are concerned that something so insensitive and appalling could happen on such a large scale without being noticed. Unfortunately, it is a tragic but real example of the types of things that can go unnoticed in a government-run healthcare system.
If something like this were to happen in the United States’ healthcare system (and plenty of heinous things do take place), it would be identified quickly and the person responsible would be jailed, as seen by the example of “House of Horrors” abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell.
In the UK, this went on for years and was, rather than an isolated incident, actually a widely used policy before it was addressed. And it’s not the first horror story to come out of the UK’s National Health System:
The Scottish Daily Mail reported on three brutal killings that might have been prevented were it not for a “catalogue of failings by a (NHS-operated) mental health trust.” One of the men had been refused treatment for failing to register with a local doctor.An investigation by the U.K. Daily Telegraph found that some patients are forced to wait up to eight hours inside ambulances because there are not enough beds inside hospitals. In March, the Daily Mail reported “Nearly 1,200 people have starved to death in NHS hospitals” because “nurses are too busy to feed patients.” By nature, a collectivist approach to social welfare leads to the degradation of the value of individual human life. A person becomes just another number to be processed, just another means to the state’s end, and the value of human life diminishes as a result.
Human life, no matter how long or short it is, deserves to be treated with respect. It’s hard to see that happening with monstrous government bureaucracies determining the health and running the lives of citizens.
Today, it may be aborted and miscarried fetuses; in the future, it may be something altogether more ghastly. This is what history should remind us, even as we might like very much to forget.
