Press Release Oct. 30th – Nov. 2018
Citizens for a Pro-Life Society
Michigan-Oakland County Medical Examiner Releases
“Trunk Abortionist” Babies to Pro-lifers for Burial
In Wake of Detroit Funeral Home Scandals
Funeral Rites Will Take Place for 14 Aborted Babies, Saturday, Nov. 3rd
Another Aborted Baby to be Buried Nov.24th
In
August 2018 the bodies of 15 unborn children, discovered in the trunk
of Michigan abortionist Michael Roth’s car by West Bloomfield police
officers, were released by the Oakland County Medical Examiner’s Office
to the Borek-Jennings Funeral Home. This was the result of a two-year
effort by Citizens for a Pro-Life Society to obtain the aborted babies’
remains for burial. In the wake of Detroit funeral home these 14 aborted babies will finally be laid to rest in a dignified service, Saturday, Nov. 3rd with an funeral
Mass celebrated by Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Detroit
Robert Fisher, Transfiguration Parish, 25225 Code Rd., Southfield, MI.
Burial to follow at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, 25800 W 10 Mile Rd,
Southfield, MI.
A second funeral will take place for the 15th of
the “Trunk Abortionist” babies as pro-lifers in Livingston County
desired to bury one of the abortion victims in their area. That funeral
is Nov. 24th, Mass, Holy Spirit Parish, 9565 Musch Rd, Brighton, MI. Burial will take place in cemetery.
In
Sept. 2015 the remains of 15 aborted babies were discovered in the
trunk of the car of Michigan abortionist Michael Roth by the West
Bloomfield police department. Here’s the story. Late in May Michael
Roth lost his lease in the Novi, Michigan building where he ran an
abortion clinic for over 20 years. Indeed, he may have lost his lease
due to the activism of Lynn Mills of Pro-life Michigan who in February
of that year organized a picket of Roth’s abortion center and had even
previously distributed to tenants in the building information regarding
Roth’s abortion practice. She explains: “Roth has a sad history of
lawsuits, Attorney General violations, including doing at-home abortions
in the 1990's, and sanctions placed on him by Licensing and Regulatory
Affairs (LARA), the licensing arm of the State of Michigan.”
In the next few Roth
attempted to rent other office space to restart his abortion practice.
Again activist Lynn Mills, through her investigative skills, was able to
discover exactly where Roth intended to relocate. Twice she succeeded
in influencing landlords not to rent to abortionist Roth. In the early
Winter of Roth went on to rent
office space in Farmington Hills, MI. but it appears his lease did not
permit him to do abortions. Mills sent an assistant into the new office
location. She tried to secure an abortion appointment and was told Roth
was not offering abortions. He would eventually close up this office as
well.
The Car Accident that Revealed a Terrible Secret
In Sept. 2015 Roth was involved in a car accident in his hometown of
West Bloomfield where he struck and seriously injured a pedestrian on
Orchard Lake Road. As a consequence, Roth’s car was impounded by local
law enforcement.
Roth asked the West Bloomfield police if he could retrieve his garage
door remote control devices that were inside the impounded vehicle. The
police accommodated his request. When they opened the car to locate
the remotes they also discovered Roth was illegally in possession of
medications. The Michigan Attorney General’s own June 2016 press
statement explains: “Local police found evidence of six prescriptions
for Ciprofloxacin, a common antibiotic used with abortion procedures,
which was allegedly written by Dr. Angel Ojeda, a doctor who runs the
Eastland Women’s Center in Eastpointe, Michigan. The clinic’s primary
focus terminating pregnancies.
Officers also found vials of Fentanyl, a drug commonly used as a
sedative during termination procedures, as well as containers of
post-conception material.”
“Medical records indicate that Roth sometimes worked out of Dr. Ojeda’s
clinic. Dr. Ojeda and the women whose names were listed on the
prescriptions alleged they had no knowledge of the prescriptions. Dr.
Ojeda also stated that a large amount of Fentanyl was stolen from his
office in December 2014. When interviewed, Ojeda stated he had never
given Roth permission to have Fentanyl or Ciprofloxacin from his clinic,
a statement which was corroborated by a clinic employee. A separate
medical assistant employed at the Eastland Women’s Center allegedly
admitted to stealing medical equipment and medications used in abortions
from the clinic for Roth and that he was fully aware the materials were
stolen.”
“A
search warrant was completed on Roth’s home and office. Additional
vials of Fentanyl were found at the home. Both the Fentanyl found in the
car and in the house were matched to the Fentanyl that was allegedly
stolen from the women’s clinic. The search warrant also revealed a large
amount of cash with names and what is believed to be pregnancy
information attached to each bundle of cash, medical materials such as
syringes, disposable scalpels and empty containers similar to the ones
filled with post-conception material found in Roth’s car.”
The Police Make a Shocking Discovery
Due
to the discovery of the illegal medications, the West Bloomfield police
conducted a thorough search of Roth’s car. Upon opening the trunk they
found something far more disturbing, even shocking, namely 15 plastic
specimen jars each containing the remains of an aborted baby!
Due
to Lynn Mills notifying landlords that they were about to have an
abortionist for a tenant, Roth was an abortionist without a clinic and
it appears that he simply began doing abortions in hotel rooms or even
in the private homes of his female clients.
Citizens
for a Pro-Life Society knew that the trunk abortionist babies were
being held as evidence by the Oakland County Medical Examiner’s office
and spent nearly two years in an effort to obtain them for the purposes
of a humane burial. Finally, after dozens of phone calls made by CPLS
director Monica Migliorino Miller and letters of request, the babies
Roth aborted, found in the trunk of his car were given to our pro-life
group.
In an initial analysis the Oakland County Medical Examiner found that the jars contain
human tissue described as "remnants of performed medical procedures"
and "products of conception", but not fetuses.—according to an Oct.14,
2017 WXTZ Channel 7 news report. MonicaMigliorino Miller of Citizens
for a Pro-Life Society states however,
“I don’t know how carefully the medical examiner looked in those
specimen jars—but they do contain real identifiable human remains. I
looked in the jars. I saw the tiny bodies myself—their arms, legs, feet,
spinal columns—all there. These are real human beings, they lived once,
they were put to death, treated with total disrespect—and now these
unwanted people will at least be given a humane and dignified
burial. In the Christian religion
there are seven corporal works of mercy. The last work of mercy is to
bury the dead—but it will be the first work of mercy these unborn
children will ever know on this earth.”
The above photo are the feet of one of the aborted babies found in trunk of Michael Roth's car. Photo taken by Monica Migliorino Miller.
Oddly Roth was never charged with doing illegal abortions.
Since Roth was a licensed physician the Assistant Attorney General
handling the case lacked confidence that they would achieve a conviction
regarding Roth’s apparently doing abortions outside of a clinic
setting.
Six of the fifteen specimen jars
containing remains of aborted babies found in the trunk of abortionist
Michael Roth car, Sept. 29, 2016.
Roth was finally convicted a year ago in
November of 2017 on three counts of Larceny in a Building connected to
the illegal possession of narcotics and was sentenced by Judge Marc
Barron, 48th District Court receiving a $798 fine and 18
months probation, plus the suspension of his medical license by the
State of Michigan Medical Board.
For more information:
Monica Migliorino Miller - Dir. of CPLS 248 444-9096
Lynn Mills - Pro-Life Michigan 734 516-1948
Dr. Stephen Pullis - Archdiocese of Detroit 586 354-1254
Oakland County Medical Examiner 248 858-5097
Hand of one of the aborted babies found in trunk of Michael Roth's car--to be buried Nov. 24th. Photo taken by Monica Migliorino Miller
