MOSCOW — Villagers in Russia’s south Urals region have stumbled upon a gruesome discovery — four barrels left in a forest containing 248 human fetuses, prompting an official probe, officials said Tuesday.
Police in the Sverdlovsk region said the fetuses, preserved in formaldehyde, were kept in barrels with tags marked with surnames and numbers.
The fetuses were found a few miles away from a highway linking the region’s capital, Yekaterinburg, with another big city, Nizhny Tagil. Police believe that they may have come from four local hospitals and have started an investigation.
The fetuses have been placed in a local morgue.
The Health Ministry said it had ordered a check of local hospitals to prevent such incidents occurring again.
“The rude violation of medical ethics causes indignation,” the ministry said in a statement. “It’s inadmissible from both the moral and legal viewpoint.”
The Russian Orthodox Church used the incident to emphasize its opposition against abortions. Spokesman Vladimir Legoida said in a statement that it “highlighted the degradation of our society.”
Socialistic healthcare. It’s coming your way!
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Not to be nasty or unfeeling but the Russian’ Health Ministry is 1 step short of being able to provide aspirin for HIV as a treatment in effectiveness. What is more accurate, and it’s public knowledge for those that bother to dig, is the ‘Sverd’ was, and is still, a Russian CHEMICAL WEAPONS DEVELOPMENT AND STORAGE site. Back in the late 80’s the Russian’s had a ‘little’ accident at ‘Sverd’ that released a couple of tons ot numerous chemical weapon’s downwind to a distance of about 90 to 125 miles. Think Chernobyl but the Russain’s downwind could see it coming. The region has never recovered, still. Now, to develop chemical weapon’s one needs a test subject. We all also know the Russian’s have absolutely zero respect for their own people as far as individual’s go. Folk’s, the math isin’t that hard. What’s really disturbing is that the folk’s in Russia that were in charge then of the Chemical Weapon’s are still there, still in charge. Again, the math isin’t that tough, is it ?