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SHANGHAI—This week's discovery of 21 dead fetuses and babies allegedly dumped along a river in the hometown of Confucius has provoked a bout of national soul-searching, and highlighted the gap between the values of newly affluent urban China and the traditional attitudes that persist in many less-developed parts of the country.
Amid the online outcry that erupted following media reports of the grim discovery Monday in Jining, a city in Shandong province recognized as the birthplace of the ancient Chinese philosopher, China's state-run Xinhua news agency Wednesday carried a story blaming the incident on "local custom and a lack of regulation."
Police detained two morgue workers from the Affiliated Hospital of Jining Medical University, the hospital said.
Authorities said the men had been paid to dispose of the bodies, and had secretly taken them to a river bank for burial, but failed to complete the job.
The bodies—some in diapers, at least one in a plastic bag marked "medical waste"—were found under a bridge.
Eight of them still had hospital identification tags around their ankles. The local health bureau issued a public apology for failing to adequately supervise the hospital's handling of human remains.
Cao Yongfu, deputy director of the Medical Ethics Institute at Shandong University, said in an interview that traditionally some parents don't view a fetus or a baby who died in the first days of life as "one of their family members."
He said such views could cause them "not to care much about the dead babies."
He added that "every parent has the right and obligation to arrange a funeral for their kids." But Mr. Cao said current law is vague on how to properly handle dead bodies, especially those of fetuses or newborns.
Xinhua cited Ma Guanghai, the deputy dean of Shandong University's School of Philosophy and Social Development, as saying that in some poor, rural parts of China, parents are reluctant to take the bodies of dead babies home for burial. He said abandonment of dead babies was a holdover from days of high infant mortality.
Police didn't disclose any count of the sex of the bodies or how many were full-term.
Another academic, Cui Shuyi, a researcher in the demography institute of the Shandong Academy of Social Science, said that among rural Chinese, the traditional preference for boys over girls can lead to the abandonment of dead baby girls.
The bodies of babies born out of wedlock are also sometimes discarded, Mr. Cui said.
Meanwhile, thousands of Internet posters have commented on the Jining case online.
Web portal Sina.com on Wednesday said a story about the case ranked third in terms of comments.
Another account of the incident was ranked as the most-viewed on another big portal, Netease.
Many people expressed outrage that the dead babies' bodies were dumped in a city that celebrates itself as the birthplace of Confucius—who among other things taught familial loyalty and ancestor worship—and other ancient Chinese philosophers.
One Web blogger wrote in a post: "I am very shocked that such thing could happen in a city that was the hometown of Confucius and Mencius. It is already very cruel for a baby leaving the world. How could we adults do something totally unconscionable?"
A person from Hubei said in a Netease forum: "This is horrible. These babies are so pitiful. They were sick when they were alive. Now, even though they are dead, they can't have a peaceful end. How could their parents be so cruel-hearted?"
—Bai Lin
contributed to this article.Printed in The Wall Street Journal, page A11
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