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Two pro-life county commissioners in Oregon have reacted with horror to a Vancouver newspaper story that claims aborted fetuses from B.C. are routinely shipped to a waste-to-energy incinerator near Portland, where they are “burned to generate electricity.”

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An article that appeared Monday in The B.C. Catholic newspaper, published by the Roman Archdiocese of Vancouver, reported that “aborted and miscarried children” are “ending up in an Oregon waste-to-energy plant, likely mixed with everyday trash” and “incinerated to provide electricity to the people of Marion County.”

The account was picked up by media outlets in Oregon, where it spread like wildfire. It caught Marion County’s two elected commissioners off guard; both expressed disgust and said steps are being taken to end the alleged practice.

“We are outraged and appalled that this material could be included in medical waste received at our facility,” Councillor Janet Carlson said in a statement Wednesday. “We did not know this practice was occurring until today.”

The two councillors held an emergency meeting Thursday morning and agreed that the county would temporarily stop all biomedical waste shipments to its waste-to-energy incinerator, and would amend local ordinances to bar any future shipments that could contain fetal tissue.