Burying Medical Waste

There has been a big uproar in the news about a Catholic Church in Colorado burying the remains of aborted fetuses. The New York Times wrote a piece on the service. There are two surprises which I wanted to address. First was the below quote from Planned Parenthood:

Kate Horle, a spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, told the news agency that some of the clinic's patients had been devastated by the news. "Our concern is for the women who had personal relationships with Dr. Hern and their understanding of what would happen with the fetuses," Ms. Horle told The A.P. "That trust was violated by a third party." [Emphasis added]

It seems as though some of the patient's were devastated. It seems unclear to me what they were so hurt from? Is it hard to find out someone still finds value in the remains of a baby and wants to instill some dignity on the little boy or girl by burying him or her. The remains had value to this church. The baby alive was considered a disease by the mother (and father). Did she think that it was really a blog of tissue? Was the mother devastated by a stranger caring for the child they never knew more than the mother and father did. Did they prefer that the child be simply discarded with the trash, or forced down a garbage disposal? One of the more interesting situations that Planned Parenthood has been put is has now arisen. The baby is considered "medical waste" so Planned Parenthood is not required to dispose of it in a special manner. Current laws regarding burial are not applied to this medical waste. For any law to be broke the fetuses must be classified as human remains. Of course this would require the blog of tissue to be a human, which Planned Parenthood is unwilling to go. I am willing to bet that Planned Parenthood is just wishing there was a way that they could sue the Church for caring about the medical waste enough to have a proper burial.