Legacy MattersAborted fetuses in France must be cremated, but that's not always what happens.
Discovery of Stored Fetuses and Stillborns Roils France.
The mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoë, described the discovery as being "as surreal as it is illegal."
The government has ordered an investigation into the discovery at St. Vincent de Paul Hospital, said the minister of health, Xavier Bertrand, who described himself as "enormously shocked" by the find.
"I want to share profound emotion and indignation in the face of such a discovery," he told French television Tuesday evening. "The situation demands that we find the truth."
Some of the fetuses had been stored illegally for more than two decades, some in sealed plastic bags, others in jars of formalin.