Boulder, Colo.
A Roman Catholic church in Boulder, Colo., held a burial service this week for the cremated remains of 500 aborted fetuses. “To me, these are God’s children,” said Bonnie Vanni, a parishioner at Sacred Heart of Mary Church. The ceremony was held on the weekend of the 32nd anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision, which made abortion legal. The church got the ashes secretly from a mortuary, which had cremated them for the Boulder Abortion Clinic. Clinic director Warren Hern accused the church of exploiting “private grief” for political purposes. “These fanatics simply cannot leave other people alone with their most intimate sorrow,” he said.
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