Over 2,000 Fetuses Found in Thai Buddhist Temple
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BANGKOK (AP) — Thai police investigating a strong smell emanating from a Buddhist temple have found more than 2,000 fetuses hidden in the complex’s morgue that appear to have come from illegal abortion clinics.
During an initial investigation at the temple in Bangkok on Tuesday, police discovered piles of plastic bags containing more than 300 fetuses. Police Lt. Col. Kanathud Musiganont said workers pulled more bodies from the temple’s morgue Friday. More than 2,000 have been unearthed from vaults where bodies are traditionally interred pending cremation, which under some circumstances can take place years after death.
Abortion is illegal in Thailand except under three conditions — if a woman is raped, if the pregnancy affects her health or if the fetus is abnormal.
Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said Friday that more must be done to prevent illegal abortions but that his government would not revise the abortion-related laws. He said his government has discussed the matter and believed that “the existing laws are appropriate and flexible enough.”
Several people have already been arrested in the case: two undertakers for hiding bodies to conceal the cause of death and an abortion clinic employee on charges of operating an unlicensed medical clinic and performing abortions. The undertakers could each be sent to prison for up to one year and fined 2,000 baht ($67). The clinic employee — who police said confessed she had delivered the fetuses to the morgue workers starting early this year — could face up to five years in jail and a fine of 10,000 baht ($333).
Police Col. Sombat Milintachinda said the fetuses found Friday seemed to have been for a longer period of time than those found earlier in the week.
According to the police, Suchart Poomee, 38, one of the undertakers being questioned by the police, confessed Tuesday he had been hired by illegal abortion clinics to destroy the fetuses. He said he had been collecting the fetuses since November last year. It was not clear why they had not yet been cremated.
Despite having a huge and active sex industry, many Thais are generally conservative on sexual matters, and Buddhist activists especially oppose liberalizing abortion laws.
Public Health Minister Jurin Laksanavisith said around 1 million Thai women get pregnant each year, with 60,000 suffering miscarriages, and another 80,000 getting legal abortions. He gave no estimate for the number of illegal abortions.
Illegal abortions, he said, reflects a problem in society. “It requires efforts from both the government and the private sector to promote better understanding about sex among the Thai youngsters,” said Jurin.
Suriyadeo Tripathi, the director of Thailand’s National Institute for Child and Family Development, said young people were getting mixed messages, and sex education needs to be improved.
“On the one hand, you see many campaigns trying to promote safer sex, but on the other, a lot of people still strongly encourage abstinence and retain a stigma against premarital sex,” he said.




















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poverty.sucks
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 10:39amObama gave his admiration to Budda, God will not forgive.
Report Post »Tired_of_the_lies
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 11:04amHow do you know what God will or will not do?
Report Post »Rich Cranium
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 1:44pmMy bet is Oblabla thinks God needs to ask him for forgiveness.
Report Post »WMckinney
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 10:39amThis is so sad, it breaks my heart. My daughter had to move back home with me. Last year she had my frist grand child. I was lucky enough to be able to stay home, thanks for the unemployment, lord obama. However, I’ve been able to watch this little boy grow. Birth is a miricle.Watching him come along, and develope from being in my arms, to running through the house has cured me of thinking that the few cells were just that. It’s a human, from the begining.
Report Post »powhatan
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 10:39amsadness
Report Post »Marylou7
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 10:35amUntil we get out from under the progressive influence, this utter disregard for human life will continue. This is fast becoming a Godless world. All you Christians had better start praying day and night.
Report Post »Silat
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 10:29amHow many lives were lost in this war? Oh, there was no war? Then why so many deaths?
Report Post »2000 plus human lives. Oh, that‘s right they weren’t human, they were fetus’s!
amabOreil
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 10:28amI’m not sure how a Buddhist Temple became entangled with this story. There were not Buddhist monks mentioned in the story, other than abortion clinic personnel. To the writer of this story: please make sure that you don’t drag Buddhism into the Christian/Islam circus war that is currently underway. Buddhism is a powerful yet peaceful religion that has been observing from the sidelines the ridiculous stone age behavior of these two religions going at each other throats. thank you!
Report Post »MBA
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 10:26amThat is disgusting.
Report Post »TheGoverness
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 10:24am“Buddhist activists especially oppose liberalizing abortion laws.”
Report Post »Well, then why did the Buddhists allow this to happen in their temple…I’m confused. Can someone help me out here?
No1SickFreak
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 10:20amDoes this really suprise anyone? They eat CATS over there… Sad as it may be, Highschool girls all over this country are guilty of the same horrible act… Restore morals in our children, it is the only thing we can do at this point.
Report Post »JohnnyJT
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 10:18amPoor little babies.
Report Post »Chickweedtea
Posted on November 21, 2010 at 11:22amThat was my sentiment.
Report Post »Babies.
I hug my babies and pray those little spirits are wrapped tightly in HIS arms of love.
bookofwisdom
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 10:18amSentenced to 5 years for killing all those babies. What a travesty. May God Bless.
Report Post »teachermitch32
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 10:13amSomething needs to be done in the US regarding our men traveling to this area just for the sake of the liberal sex industry. I’m sure a good percentage of these unwanted babies (lives) could have been prevented if we, as a people, would get tougher regarding the root of our involvement in this sex industry and it’s perpetuation. It’s not the end-all for this travesty, but it is one attack.
Report Post »mcFirst
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 10:12amI am sure P&G would not like that a Tide ‘ActiLife’ commercial plays before you see the video. But what matters anymore, video is just video.
Report Post »dkhartman
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 10:12amLife being devalued as always!
Report Post »JustMel71
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 10:11amI don’t even have a comment about this that would express my feelings enough. Very disheartening doesn‘t even begin to describe how I’m feeling.
Report Post »mcFirst
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 10:08amI had to read the title twice. Is this 2010? Makes you wonder if humans are making progress at all.
Report Post »Mikee T
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 10:08amThis is paganism…….plain and simple……… Anyone that embraces buddhism, muslismism or any other false form of worship is an enemy to America…….period……. Back to the constitution….our forefathers had it right……..anybody that has a problem with it can go live in another country…period..
Report Post »amerbur
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 2:23pmMikee T – What you just wrote makes no sense. Abortion is illegal in Thailand. It is legal in America, mandatory in China. Who are the pagans?
Report Post »biggreenboo
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 2:37pmI wanted to leave a comment… but it would be wasted on you. Happy Thanksgiving.
Report Post »TBHA
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 4:07pmI’m an Agnostic and I honestly believe it is wrong to murder humans in any way except in defense of yourself (this includes your family – pets too – or your personal property), your country or the public in general.
Report Post »I am moral to a fault and I believe that women these days need to keep their legs shut (sorry if my verbiage offends). Rape/incest in my opinion, is the only acceptable reason for abortion because I see mother’s health as being secondary.
I am also a proud American and have absolutely NO PROBLEM with people believing in God or Allah or Buddha or the Trimurti or whatever their belief happens to be so long as they respect me and mine. That is what the founding fathers intended, a nation of laws without exception and no special privileges for this group or that. That is why we have freedom OF religion and not freedom FROM religion.
I could go on and on.
Now tell me… do I need to leave?!?!?
Chet Hempstead
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 6:12pmOur forefathers did have it right – they wrote the First Amendment just in case there would be people like you some day. But you’ll be glad to know that there aren’t actually any people in this country or anywhere else practicing “muslismism.”
Report Post »Sinista Mace
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 10:07amI think I’m going to vomit.
Report Post »starman70
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 10:04amPlanned Parenthood at its finest!
Report Post »neverending
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 10:13amThat’s for sure -probably happening right here but little barry boy and his bunch of sorry sob’s cover that up as well – nothing surprises me anymore
Report Post »Rich Cranium
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 10:55amI agree, the end result is the same both at this tempe and at a Planned Parenthood clinic, the killing of an unborn child. I think the only difference is that Planned Parenthood has a better source for disposal of the remains.
Report Post »Gita
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 10:02amPlease God have mercy on the world! Thailand is trying to do the right thing with regard to abortion but the shadow people have infiltrated the whole world.
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 10:02amObama and the Democrats would be cheering this on.
Report Post »wildjoker5
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 10:01amUm….Ew.
Report Post »joseph Fawcett
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 10:00amThis is terrible, the ways of people are certainly not the ways of God. The innocent are lost because of the hearts of their parents. May God have Mercy on us all and May the Lord Jesus come again soon for we are a deplorable creation to have the hearts to do this to the innocent of His creation. He cannot take pleasure in this, and we are created for His pleasure. Makes me very sadden and beg for mercy for we do not hold the grace of God anymore as His creation.
http://www.josephfawcettart.com western artist
Report Post »john seven eighteen
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 10:21amAmen!
Report Post »Vickie Dhaene
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 10:29amVery well said. I pray for all the lost souls.
Report Post »john seven eighteen
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 9:56amMakes you wonder how much of our tax dollars contributed to this travesty. Thank your president, folks.
Report Post »cessna152
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 10:14amI am speechless. I usually have some smart alec comment, but this is just….well, SICK! Human lives, thrown away as worthless trash. And I am fined if I don’t recycle, yet this is “legal”!
Report Post »TheGoverness
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 10:21amCessna
Report Post »It’s not legal. The people associated with this are going to do time and be fined. This is one of the most horrific stories I have read in quite a while.
M31Sailor
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 10:41amCessna
Taildragger? my feelings exactly re this story. Less unnecessary abortions would take place if, more abortion providers were hung in the town square as murders
Report Post »cessna152
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 1:58pmThegoverness.
That is why I put “legal” in quotes as in “acceptable”. But I get your point… either way this is SICK and the liberals will argue making this “legal” for your “safety”. Sick, sick people… and the warped thought process of the left to use this as an excuse to legalize it. Either way murder is murder… why would anyone legalize it for “your safety”? That was for poster “obama(brainwashed)2012″
Report Post »cessna152
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 2:24pmM31Sailor,
Nope, Traditional. I really miss flying, actually owned a Cherokee 140 with 160 overhaul. That was fun… oh well, maybe flying will come in handy when I have to escape NJ (West Berlin of the USA) in the middle of the night.
Report Post »TruthTalker
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 9:55amThat is quite a collection of cells.
Report Post »Obama_2012
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 10:13amThis is your conservative hero’s like Huckabee want in America. Outlaw abortion so it can only be done in vile, illegal ways. Absolutely disgusting.
john seven eighteen
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 10:20amOBAMA_2012
Doing it legally makes it any less vile and disgusting?
Report Post »MAULEMALL
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 10:28amHey O2012… Just because the world would have been better if you had been aborted doesn’t make it the correct thing..
Now go kiss your momma and tell her we forgive her.
MattyFos
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 10:30amObamacare paid for those abortions.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 10:31amObama_2012
Report Post »There is no way other than “vile” to do it. It is disgusting and so are people like you that defend it.
dasmoondog
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 10:35am@ obama 1012( as if ) this is what your murdering bas tard pals do…murder innocent infants. no matter if its legal or not . murderers
Report Post »fedup
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 10:36am@obama 2012
Report Post »You are so right it is very disgusting. IT IS MURDER, Whether it is done in an alley or done in a clean room it is still murder and those babies are just as dead, and all the parties involved are just as guilty no matter where it is done.
NES
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 10:41amWe can also legalize homocide and sexual assualt so it won’t be done in such vile and disgusting ways or in back alleys. Yes, bring murder and rape out of the darkness and let it be performed in the light of day. Hope and Change [TM] the Obamatons can believe in. (BTW, Schmuckabee is a liberal progressive.)
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 10:42amTake it easy on poor Obama_2112, he’s obviously feeble minded, look at his handle.
Report Post »Inuyasha
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 10:48am@ Obama_2012. It should be illegal because there is not a way to do it that isn’t vile or disturbing to someone with any decency towards life. It is murder plain and simple. And if people have illegal abortions they should be treated as anyone who has murdered anyone else and go to jail for life at the very least. The only thing different in this story than what happens over here in the U.S. is that the dead babies end up in a dumpster instead of a Buddhist temple.
Report Post »Inuyasha
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 10:50amalso @ Obama_2012. I bet you are one of those types who wants to protect some kind of fish we have never heard of or something to prevent us from growing crops somewhere or building something that would help people all to save some animal. But you are ok with killing people? You liberals have your moral compass turned in the wrong direction.
Report Post »Obama_2012
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 10:57amI think all of you missed the point here. Abortion isn’t going away, ever. You can argue morals and ethics all you want, that’s not the point. Should it be illegal so it’s done like this, or should we be a bit more humane and have it done properly?
Report Post »Rock_Thrower
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 11:10amObama_2012 – why is this disgusting to you ? It is the same procedure, they just did not dispose of the cells they way we do in the USA.
Once the child is dead does it really matter?
Report Post »NES
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 11:16amMurder and rape won’t go away either, so let’s legalize them to make sure they are done properly and in a humane manner. Take a look at this “humane” procedure, Obamaton_2012:
http://www.silentscream.org/
Report Post »NES
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 11:20am@Rock_Thrower
The Buddhist temple crematorium is less disturbing than what is typically done in the US: they put the dead babies in garbage bags and throw them in the dumpster behind the abortion clinic.
Report Post »mizflame98
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 11:26am“OBAMA_2012
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 10:13am
This is your conservative hero’s like Huckabee want in America. Outlaw abortion so it can only be done in vile, illegal ways. Absolutely disgusting.”
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL, that they are ENDOWED BY THEIR CREATOR with certain unalienable rights, that among these are LIFE, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
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Where do you and others like you get off determining that the unborn doe not have these rights?
Morningcrapper
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 11:32amThats just Nasty…………..
Report Post »NEAF
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 11:32amMaking it Legal doesn’t make it Right.
Report Post »Obama_2012
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 11:36ammizflame98
Same place you and your ilk get off promoting the death penalty and the murder of Muslims for oil I suppose.
NancyPalousy
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 12:02pmOblahblah_2012, “Same place you and your ilk get off promoting the death penalty and the murder of Muslims for oil I suppose.”
So, you’d rather kill the easier target, an unborn, innocent human, than the terrorists that want to come here and rape and murder your family in front of you, then lynch you after? Yeah, you make a lot of sense.
Report Post »338_LM
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 12:03pmObama_2012 – No one is missing the point. Abortion may not be going away, but rape and murder, burglary, robbery etc. aren’t either. “It isn’t going away, ever” is no reason to make an illegal or immoral activity legal. At least not to a Conservative.
Report Post »NES
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 12:04pmConservatives: Kill the guilty.
********: Kill the innocent.
Do you have any evidence to show oil “stolen” by the US from Iraq, Obamaton_2012? Contracts? Low prices at the pumps? Anything besides signs you saw at a red-shirt rally or what you heard in a SOAD song?
Report Post »superfide
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 12:09pmGuys, there is no sense in arguing with these fools. You can reason with them all you want, but all its going to do is piss them and you off and nothing really ever changes. Our world view differs from theirs because we fear God, and they do not. Their world view doesn’t respect life. People are dispensable, expendable… they are to be manipulated and disposed of. We recognize that every human being is created in God’s image and is worthy of life until they give up that right. You’re never going to show Mr. O 2012 of the value of human life until God changes his heart. Until that happens, just pray for people like him and tell him what you believe and why. That’s it. Don’t let them frustrate you.
Report Post »stage9
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 1:03pmObama 2012, you are an idiot. Infanticide is murder. I know that you liberals see murder as a right of passage, but the rest of the world — the sane amongst us — still view murder of innocent life as heinous and criminal. Illegally performing abortions is still murder. Legalizing it is still murder. Murder under any circumstance is still murder. You can manipulate the language and reinvent the image of this heinous act all you want, at the end of the day an innocent human life is being murdered and you are a murderer. Now, talk to me about the 1% (if that) of women who may need an abortion due to rape, incest or medical complications and I’ll tell you that there is still 99% who are aborting their babies due to moral failures. But then, morality and liberalism have never been very close bedfellows have they?
Report Post »desertpatriot
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 1:28pmSomehow this will become Bush’s fault.
Report Post »Midwestgirl1116
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 1:36pm@Obama2012
Report Post »I suggest you go to
http://www.priestsforlife.com and look at abortion photos and than come back and tell me if abortion is humane!
Its_BJ
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 1:40pmactually the reply is to Obama_2012, do you hate your mother, is that what’s wrong with you…because she choose to keep you and not toss you into the trash can. If she had of, you’d not be hear showing your love for those who murder babies.
Report Post »aamador
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 1:52pmNow sir, you have shown how much class you have
Report Post »independentvoteril
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 2:04pmNotice the BONES that means these were late term abortions.. NOT a collection of cells and tissue.. BTW the camera man stinks..
Report Post »unrepentant patriot
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 2:42pmObama_
How about people being responsible and not having sex? That is the first choice women should be making, never mind “their right to choose”. We are not animals and should not be acting like we run on instincts, and a pregnancy is a result of it. Ever hear of the expression ‘you make your bed, you lie in it’? If you don’t want the results, then don’t do the deed.
Report Post »BigPaulie
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 2:51pmYou are an idiot.
Report Post »kindling
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 3:26pmWhen O2012 was born they slapped his mama and told her never to do that again.
Report Post »DirectlyUnPCman
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 3:43pmSo Obama_2012 thinks because we cant stop it we should stop trying. Legalize drugs, child porn, murder, fraud, molestation you name it. We cant stop it, so just give up and stop trying. Nice world you would have there.
Report Post »JimOhio
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 3:44pmObama_2012 To you the ends justify the means. I have great empathy for pro-choice advocates. Explaining moral issues to you is in effect having to explain the punchline of an obvious and bad joke. Problem is abortion of human life can hardly be considered a joke, inasmuch as a man named Dred Scott in 1857 was considered to be personal property.
Report Post »leto
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 3:53pmListen to the progressive talking about killing people “humanely”. Listen crazy person, if someone kills you does it really matter if they did it “humanely” or not? Aren’t you still just as dead? We shouldn‘t be killing ANY people for someone’s convenience, or to prevent someone from public embarrassment.
Report Post »ClockKing
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 3:56pmI see the Obama troll is all over the place today. Don’t worry, it‘ll crawl back into it’s stinkhole, just like danglingbags.
Report Post »nomorpc4me
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 5:53pmobama_12
Report Post »Your typical progressive pro-abortion trash talk is so disingenuous. Abortion in the U.S. is a racsist attempt to control the Black communities (see MAAFA21). Why are 78% of Planned Parenthood abortion clinics in minority communities. Why don’t you get a spine and stand up for the unborn instead of giving more right to so called “endangered” smelt fish. Your make me want to vomit.
uncleherbert
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 7:02pmobamo 2012, your values are showing and its not honorable!
Report Post »jwagnerATO
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 7:22pm“This is your conservative hero’s like Huckabee want in America. Outlaw abortion so it can only be done in vile, illegal ways. Absolutely disgusting.” NO this is what liberials DO when they become peverted enough in the head to not value the life of the unborn. people like you make me sick. Killing the unborn is vile whether with a chemical or physical damage. i like the death penalty card too. classic. let murders live but kill the most innocent human life on the earth because of a lack of responsibility. you better check yourself son.
Report Post »Max jones
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 9:21pmThailand is also the worlds leading purveyor of pedofilia….Sex with children. Wealthy perverts from all over the world go there for action. They also play high stakes chess matches.
Report Post »Thai prostitutes are world famous.
Indionesia is much the same….with out the chess.
mizflame98
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 9:27pm“OBAMA_2012
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 11:36am
mizflame98
Same place you and your ilk get off promoting the death penalty and the murder of Muslims for oil I suppose.”
Report Post ».
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You’re assuming that I promote the death penalty and the Iraq war. You have proven that you put the lives of some above others. So, I ask again, Where do you and others like you get off determining that the unborn doe not have these rights?
Doc_Slammin
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 9:31pm@OBAMA_2012 says, “I think all of you missed the point here. Abortion isn’t going away, ever. You can argue morals and ethics all you want, that’s not the point. Should it be illegal so it’s done like this, or should we be a bit more humane and have it done properly?”
Terrorists, human traffickers, and child molesters aren’t going away either. You can argue all the ‘humanity’ you want. Murder is murder.
http://theindependentrant.blogspot.com/2010/11/what-is-wrong-with-abortion.html
Report Post »JGP
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 10:22pmI’ll say it again obama 2012, your not doing too good with your arguments.
Leagal or not the abortions will have the same procedures performed. So why is one more humane than the other?
And the federal goverment has NO ******* BUISINESS PAYING FOR ABORTIONS! Legal or not it is not the federal goverments business. Period.
Report Post »LUDWIKA BRONISLAWA
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 10:38pmIsn‘t Thailand one of the places in Asia pedophiles from ’western’ countries go to have semi legal sex with little children?? John Walsh just did a special on Cambodia involving that issue. I guess only the sickest perv wants to F*** a pregnant 12 year old! DISTURBING state of affairs. It‘s funny with all these liberal ’activists’ you never hear much about the child sex trade.
Report Post »Livestockhauler
Posted on November 20, 2010 at 8:34amObama_2012
Report Post »Your logic is impecable. If I may add, that we can never stop someone from murdering another person, so therefore we should legalize murder. That way it can all be done in the open and not in the back alleys. This is a warped and preposterous line of reasoning. As others have said whether it is done in a sterile environment or in a basement in some deserted alley it is a barbaric and disgusting practice.