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jeg tror ikke på at munkene har været uvidende om de mange abort foster der nu er fundet næsten 2000
BANGKOK, November 19, 2010 (AFP) - Thai police found the remains of almost 1,000 illegally aborted foetuses hidden at a Buddhist temple in Bangkok Friday, with more grisly discoveries expected.
The bodies, wrapped in plastic bags, were discovered in a newly opened area of the mortuary days after authorities found 348 in the first room to be searched.
Two temple undertakers have admitted stashing foetuses in three different storage units, leading to the new inspection, police said.
"In just one room we have found 950 foetuses and we are now opening the next room," Colonel Sombat Milintajinda, area commander of Bangkok Metropolitan Police, told AFP.
He said some had been stored there for more than a year.
The discoveries have shocked Thailand and highlighted the scale of illegal abortions in a country where the procedure is only allowed when delivery would harm the mother or the pregnancy is the result of rape.
"This reflects the severity of the problem," said Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, although he rejected suggestions that the abortion law be amended, saying it was "flexible enough".
The public health ministry, which ordered a nationwide crackdown on abortion clinics as a result of the finds, estimates that of one million pregnancies in Thailand each year, 80,000 are illegally terminated.
So far a 33-year-old woman has been arrested and confessed to carrying out illegal abortions, said Lieutenant Colonel Dilok Ruennet, chief investigator of Phya Krai police station, where the temple is located.
He said the two undertakers had told police they were hired separately by a network of abortion clinics and had no idea how many foetuses they had stored in the mortuary.
They would normally have disposed of the corpses by placing them with the remains of people being cremated, but the furnaces had broken and the number of stored bodies had built up while repair work was carried out.
Buddhist temples in Thailand not only perform cremation ceremonies, but also store bodies in specially refrigerated areas.
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2000 fostre fundet i thailandsk tempel
19. nov. 2010 14.42 Udland
Thailandsk politi har inden for den seneste uge fundet resterne af over 2000 illegalt aborterede fostre, der lå skjult i et buddhistisk tempel i Bangkok.
Fostrene, der var svøbt i plastikposer, er blevet fundet i templets tre begravelsesrum. En talsmand for politiet siger, at nogle af fostrene har ligget i templet i over et år.
Afsløringen chokerer
Afsløringen af fostrene har chokeret thailænderne og sat fokus på omfanget af illegale aborter i landet, hvor abort kun er lovlig, hvis fødslen risikerer at skade moderen, eller hvis graviditeten er et resultat af voldtægt.
80.000 illegale aborter
Thailands sundhedsministerium har som følge af de makabre fund iværksat en landsomfattende indsats mod illegale abortklinikker. Sundhedsministeriet skønner, at 80.000 ud af en million graviditeter i Thailand om året afsluttes med en illegal abort.
Indtil videre har myndighederne anholdt en 33-årig kvinde, der har indrømmet, at hun har udført illegale aborter. Hun risikerer mellem fem og 10 års fængsel.
Skulle have været brændt
Under normale omstændigheder ville fostrene være blevet brændt sammen med afdøde, men kremeringsovnene i templet har længe været i stykker.
Thailands buddhistiske templer udfører ikke blot kremeringsceremonier. De lagrer også lig i afkølede områder.
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Thailand indførte sidste år ret til abort op til 12. graviditetsuge.
Tidligere var abort helt forbudt undtagen f.eks. voldtægter. Det betød at der blev foretaget mange illegale aborter og som i Danmark dengang ikke uden risiko. Det kom særligt frem i lyset for 12 år siden, hvor 2.000 fostre blev fundet i tempel af alle steder.
Nu siger regeringen at de har besluttet at det ikke er ulovligt at få foretaget abort op til 20 uge. Det afventer endelig lovtekst og offentliggørelse.
Det giver så kvinderne længere mulighed for at tænke over tingene og få det snakket ordentlig igennem?
Det er dog stadig forbundet med megen tabu og svært at finde steder der foretager abort. Kvinderne skal igennem samtaler og informeres grundigt om hvad aborten betyder.
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