{"id":332073,"date":"2025-06-01T12:00:54","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T17:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=332073"},"modified":"2025-05-31T10:01:28","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T15:01:28","slug":"abortion-no-investigation-babys-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-no-investigation-babys-body\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortion supporters claim police shouldn’t investigate when a baby’s body is found"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Abandonment and neglect have always been crimes, particularly if they lead to the death of a child. However, following the 2022 overturning of Roe v. Wade<\/em>, abortion supporters are arguing that when the body of a baby is found, no investigation is necessary. In May, the remains of a baby were found<\/a> in a dumpster in Ohio, and one vocal abortion advocate had a lot to say about it.<\/p>\n

KEY TAKEAWAYS:<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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  • The body of a baby was found in a dumpster at a Toledo, Ohio, apartment complex.<\/li>\n
  • Abortion activist Jessica Valenti complained that the death should not have been investigated.<\/li>\n
  • Valenti argued that using the term “baby” to describe what turned out to be a miscarried child was misleading for readers about the situation because the child was a “fetus” at the time of death.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    THE DETAILS:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n

    Last week, longtime abortion activist Jessica Valenti complained<\/a> in her newsletter, Abortion Every Day, about an Ohio investigation that took place after an infant’s body was found<\/a> in a dumpster at a Toledo apartment complex. Initially, it was not known how the death occurred, only that a body was found in a dumpster.<\/p>\n

    The fact that the media even referred to the body as belonging to an “infant” enraged Valenti:<\/p>\n

    Apparently someone reported pregnancy remains found in a trash bin outside a Toledo apartment complex\u2014and instead of recognizing it as a private medical loss, police opened an investigation. …<\/em><\/p>\n

    First come the lurid\u2014and false\u2014headlines. Local Ohio papers ran stories this week declaring that a \u201cbaby\u201d or \u201cinfant\u201d was \u201cfound dead,\u201d and that \u201cthe circumstances surrounding the baby’s death were unknown.\u201d To most readers, it would sound like a murdered newborn. Even after it became clear this was a miscarriage, reporters kept calling the fetus \u201can infant.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

    First of all, police cannot ignore a dead body under the assumption that it was a “private” or natural loss of life. Second, to complain about this kind of verbiage is a means of dehumanizing the preborn child. “Fetus” is no different than blastocyst, embryo, newborn, infant, toddler, teenager, and so forth; they are descriptors for a human being’s age and level of development. But abortion enthusiasts insist on using terms like “fetus” because they cannot stand anyone referring to a preborn child as a human being.<\/p>\n

    In this specific instance, why would it matter if the term “baby” or “infant” was used, particularly in the initial investigation? A body was found, and until it was investigated, the details were unclear. “Baby” or “infant” gets the point across most easily, but for people like Valenti, those terms are unwelcome because they remind people that preborn children are human beings, not just clumps of tissue.<\/p>\n