{"id":176858,"date":"2017-12-26T16:55:14","date_gmt":"2017-12-26T21:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=176858"},"modified":"2017-12-27T19:22:37","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T00:22:37","slug":"body-parts-broker-preborn-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/body-parts-broker-preborn-babies\/","title":{"rendered":"Human body parts broker caught likely selling preborn babies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today, Reuters released an exclusive report<\/a> detailing the activities of Detroit’s Arthur Rathburn. Rathburn used a warehouse to collect, store, and sell human bodies and body parts before his business was raided four years ago, in late 2013. Rathburn, known as a body parts broker, will be facing trial for some of his illegal actions in January 2018.<\/p>\n

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From a January 2016 federal grand jury indictment of Arthur Rathburn. (Source: U.S. court filing)<\/p><\/div>\n

Reuters reports that Rathburn not only sold infected body parts of adults to buyers, took bodies apart with chainsaws, band saws, and reciprocating saws, and rented out HIV-positive body parts, but also stored and presumably sold the intact bodies of preborn children. Estimates state that the babies were in the second trimester when they died — or were killed.<\/p>\n

The facts available do not indicate whether the babies were aborted or miscarried prior to being stored at Rathburn’s warehouse. Typically, babies in the second trimester are aborted by D&E abortion<\/a>, also called dilation and evacuation or dismemberment abortion. Former abortionist Dr. Anthony Levatino describes D&E abortion in the animated video below.<\/p>\n