Sublette ? A couple whose cemetery monument to unborn babies was ruled illegal because no remains lay beneath it now have a tiny fetus to inter, gift of an Ohio anti-abortion group.

Packed in a formaldehyde-filled jar surrounded by foam peanuts inside a cardboard box, the 3-month-old male fetus, about 2 inches long, arrived by mail last week at the home of Vaughn and Sharon Lower.

The fetus is now displayed in the jar on the couple’s dining table, awaiting a burial service set for Saturday afternoon at the Haskell County Cemetery.

“Isn’t he precious?” Sharon Lower said of the fetus, whom the couple named Baby Isaiah. “Look at his tiny fingers, they’re perfect.”

Lower said The Life Institute in Cincinnati contacted the couple “and said they had a baby we could put to rest.”

She said the fetus died of “unknown causes.”

The Lowers’ dispute with the Haskell County Cemetery board drew national attention last month after the Kansas Supreme Court upheld a trial judge’s decision that their monument was illegal. State law requires that human remains be buried with a monument in a county cemetery.

Haskell County’s cemetery board contends the Lowers never intended to bury anyone in the cemetery plot they bought in 1994.

The monument they put up four years later, over the boards’ objections, bears a Bible verse, the inscription “In loving memory of all unborn babies” and pictures of children, an angel and a heart with a small handprint.

Sharon Lower said the court ruling prompted several offers of babies’ remains from around the country.

“We have received about seven calls from people who have just lost their babies asking if we want their child to be buried at the monument,” she said.