This business of fetus funerals is weird. It's an historical fact that the Catholic Church has not always treated abortion as murder in the past. If it had, late-term abortions and miscarriages would have called for treatment of the well-formed fetus as a person, calling for baptism and Christian burial. But this was never the case. The subject of abortion is not scriptural, is not treated in the Ten Commandments, the Sermon on the Mount, or anywhere in the Jewish Scripture, the New Testament or the creeds and the early ecumenical councils. Augustine? He could never find in Scripture "anything at all certain about the origins of the soul." And Thomas Aquinas, "lacking scriptural guidance" and using Aristotelian distinctions, "denied that personhood arose at fertilization by the semen. God directly infuses the soul at the completion of human formation."

Thus spake the august Fathers of Holy Mother Church.