"Hospital settles over fetus treatment" Associated Press, May 25, 2012
COLUMBUS, Ohio - An Ohio hospital reached a proposed
lawsuit settlement of about $1 million with women who said they were
emotionally distressed to learn an employee had stuffed their miscarried
or stillborn fetuses into jars for years - citing her religious beliefs
- and kept them in hospital storage, instead of medically disposing of
them....
Court
records show that Patricia Lukas, a histologist technician working in
the hospital’s morgue, placed 88 fetuses into the same three containers
for different time periods between 1988 and 1996. Hospital policy at the
time called for the tissue of miscarried or stillborn fetuses to be
incinerated or placed in a tissue grinder....
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