CNN's using Reddit as a source for story ideas now
It's apparently been happening for a long time and is well known. They were dead to begin with (some may have been aborted) but had no one claiming the bodies or medical waste, as the case may be.
Hell, in the 11th-18th centuries people assumed that the Egyptian mummies (which were surprisingly plentiful) had medicinal qualities and were grinding them up for use in all sorts of medicines and paints.
The only difference between the mummy pills and these dead baby pills is when they patient died, really.
Not a fan of either, but it makes for a
spectacular headline.