From CBS4 Denver we have the full story:

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) A Roman Catholic church will bury the ashes of up to 1,000 aborted fetuses in its cemetery this weekend, despite accusations from the clinic that performed the operations that it is collaborating in a "macabre" and political ritual.

Dr. Warren Hern of the Boulder Abortion Clinic said his contract with Crist Mortuary required it to bury the ashes in its own plot.

Instead, he learned this week that for nearly a decade, a mortuary officer has been giving the remains to the Sacred Heart of Mary Church. The ashes are buried near a statue of Jesus and a memorial wall with plaques carrying messages from people wanting to memorialize their fetus.

"A lot of my patients come in with desired pregnancies, deeply saddened they have a desired pregnancy which is medically complicated or threatening their life," said Hern, one of a handful of doctors in the country who perform abortions late in pregnancy.

"I'm appalled that the Catholic Church will exploit women's private grief and misery for their own political purposes," he said. "Crist made a political statement by collaborating with this macabre ritual."

Crist officials did not return a call, but Terry Hemeyer, a spokesman for mortuary parent Service Corporation International of Houston, said the remains were cremated at the clinic's request.

"The church cemetery had a site for the ashes to be placed and was willing to take them," Hemeyer said. "There was no intent by the mortuary to make any political or religious statement."

The church in the fields southeast of Boulder has quietly held burial ceremonies for fetal remains from Hern's clinic since 1996, said Susan LaVelle, a church volunteer who organized the burials. She said parishioners have known about the activity since 1998, two years before the wall was built.

For a year, church leaders considered inviting the public to the burials, LaVelle said. When the church recently received enough remains for the largest burial yet, they decided to announce a candlelight vigil Friday night and a burial ceremony after Sunday morning Mass.

The burial will represent 600 to 1,000 remains of aborted, stillborn and miscarried fetuses. LaVelle said the ceremony was never intended as a political statement, though it comes one day after the anniversary of the 1973 Supreme Court decision in Roe vs. Wade that legalized abortion.

"I have never met a woman that didn't agonize over this decision, and we are not judging that. If anything, we are saying we understand this was agonizing," LaVelle said. "Our society says it's something to be quiet about, so she carries that pain in silence. We want her to know that she doesn't have to do that, that we're here for her."

The burial ignited furious criticism from Hern and family planning groups.

Kate Horle, spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, said it was unethical because neither Hern nor his patients knew of the burials.

"We certainly see this as a violation of the privacy of women," she said. "(The church and the mortuary) don't have a relationship with these women and they have no idea what their wishes or personal beliefs might be."

Under state law, unclaimed aborted fetal remains must be treated as other medical waste and be incinerated or buried. Hern said he hired Crist in 2001 because his clinic does not have an incinerator and because it was where his father was cremated. He said the contract prohibited Crist from using the remains for political or religious purposes.

The Denver Archdiocese was not involved in the church's decision but supports the effort, spokesman Sergio Gutierrez said.

"The parish community considered these lives sacred and deserving of dignity," he said. "Dr. Hern apparently doesn't believe that."

Parishioner Kelsey Byron, 28, visited the wall Friday with her 2-year-old son, Joseph, to "say a few quick prayers for the babies."

"I feel like all these babies deserve a resting place just like you and I do, and giving them a place to be buried just respects their dignity as human beings," she said.

LaVelle said the Crist officer who gave the remains to the church began doing it in 1996, when he worked at a different funeral home. She said the man was "traumatized" when he opened a shipment of remains and saw recognizable human parts. He asked the church pastor what to do.

"The two of them decided it would be good to be able to honor these unborn babies by giving them a proper burial," she said.

Olivia Gans, spokeswoman for the National Right to Life Committee, said there have been isolated cases for years in which disposal workers find fetal remains and turn them over to churches. She has not heard of similar long-term efforts elsewhere.

"What I think is happening in this case is a real desire to show respect for that life and to properly respond," she said. "Over the years, it's been the custom of abortion facilities to basically discard the remains of the children."

A full listing of abortion facts is available at the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform.

UPDATE: Video link.

This needs to stop

Abortion needs to be illegal,I think if a women is dumb enough to go and get pregnant that she should have to carry the baby.then after the baby is born if the mom wants she can give it up for adoption.