Boone Song Inspired by Fetus Protest
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The continuing controversy over the discovery in Woodland Hills three years ago of more than 16,000 aborted fetuses from a defunct medical laboratory has inspired a song by Pat Boone.
The pop singer announced Monday that he has recorded the song “Sixteen Thousand Faces” to protest the abortions and the failure of courts to allow a mass burial for the fetuses.
“Sixteen thousand mothers disappeared without a trace,” the song says, “Sixteen thousand children stayed--each one has a face.”
Boone said the song will receive its first public exposure Sunday at a memorial service for the fetuses, organized by anti-abortion groups, at a cemetery in Monrovia.
Boone, an active supporter of religious and conservative political causes, has a singing engagement Sunday and will not be at the service. A cassette of the privately recorded song will be played instead, a spokesman for the performer said.
Anti-abortion activists and religious groups have conducted a campaign, which has included an unsuccessful appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, to get a formal burial for the fetuses.
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