Church under attack after holding burial services for aborted foetuses

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Telegraph
By Catherine Elsworth in Los Angeles
(Filed: 25/01/2005)

A Roman Catholic church in America sparked a national outcry after it announced it has been holding burial services for the cremated ashes of aborted foetuses without the knowledge of the mothers or the abortion clinic involved.

Critics claim the church is exploiting women's grief for political purposes.

The practice was revealed on Sunday when the church went public as it buried the ashes of around 500 foetuses, a day after the 32nd anniversary of Roe versus Wade, the US Supreme Court decision that legalised abortion.

Abortion is one of the most impassioned divisions in America, an extreme polarisation accentuated by the November presidential election.

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