Frozen Babies

On November 28 in Tennessee, a 35-year-old woman was found dead in her apartment, apparently of natural causes. This week a relative was cleaning out the freezer and discovered three dead, frozen babies carefully wrapped in plastic. Autopsies are pending to determine the age and cause of death of the babies. DNA testing will show whether the dead woman was the mother. News stories here and here.

Obviously something strange happened here. No one who knew this woman can recall her ever being pregnant, though she was large so it might not be obvious. If they aren't her children, whose are they and how did they get in the freezer?

To me, the odd thing as that we are all so horrified by stories like this. The fact is that 3,000+ other infants are killed in American abortion clinics every single day, efficiently and legally. These babies don't even get the dignity of a freezer; they are incinerated as "medical waste" or thrown away with the trash.

Then we have untold thousands of embryos (babies by another name) that are produced by couples trying to get pregnant with in-vitro fertilization. The unused ones are frozen because no one knows what to do with them. (Hat tip: Mark Shea)

What happened to these babies in Tennessee was a tragedy. What happens to thousands of others is forgotten.