An anti-abortion group said Tuesday that the five fetuses found last week in a member's home came from the medical waste being disposed by a Washington, D.C., abortion clinic.
Anti-abortion activists Lauren Handy, front, with Terrisa Bukovinac, from left, Jonathan Darnell, and Randall Terry, speak during a news conference in Washington, Tuesday, April 5, 2022. Police found five fetuses in the home of Lauren Handy, a self-proclaimed"anti-abortion activist" who was indicted this week on federal charges alleging that she was part of a group of people who blocked access to a Washington, reproductive health center.
The claims during a Tuesday press conference shed light on a case that first came to public attention last week, when the Metropolitan Police Department removed five aborted fetuses from the home of Lauren Handy, a longtime anti-abortion rights activist. Police removed the fetuses one day after Handy and eight others were charged with blocking access to an abortion clinic in 2020.
The group showed several minutes of gruesome footage, with them opening the box and removing several fetuses with well-developed limbs and facial features. Late-stage and third-trimester abortions are legal in the District of Columbia. The group maintains they might be a violation of federal law under the 2003 Partial-Birth Abortion Act.
The D.C. medical examiner's office has, so far, declined to perform any autopsies on the fetuses. Ashan Benedict, MPD's executive assistant chief of police, told reporters last week that the fetuses appeared to have been aborted “in accordance with D.C. law."Handy said she kept the fetuses “under my stewardship” in her home while she and Bukovinac tried to find an independent pathologist to perform an autopsy.
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