115 fetuses in medical waste

• The Progressive Anti-Abortion Rebellion (PAAU) group stated Tuesday it had gotten 115 fetuses from a Washington, D.C., clinic’s medical waste.
• The group requested the motive force of the medical waste firm if they might take one of many biohazard containers being loaded into his truck.
• The PAAU desires police to analyze for potential violations of federally unlawful late-stage abortions. 23 Republican members of Congress do, too.

Anti-abortion activists say the 5 fetuses police discovered inside an activist’s dwelling final month have been amongst a complete of 115 fetuses they bought from an organization disposing of a Washington, D.C., abortion clinic’s medical waste.

The Progressive Anti-Abortion Rebellion (PAAU) group stated Tuesday throughout a press convention it had contacted the Metropolitan Police Division about giving them the 5 fetuses for an investigation into federally unlawful late-stage abortions.

“We’re demanding that the D.C. police conduct a full investigation into the deaths of those infants, together with thorough autopsies,” PAAU founder and government director Terrisa Bukovinac stated through the occasion, which was streamed on Fb and YouTube.

Bukovinac stated she and one other activist, Lauren Useful, on March 25,approached a driver for Curtis Bay Medical Waste of Baltimore, Maryland, as containers labeled as biohazards have been being loaded into his truck. After they requested if they might take one of many containers, the motive force agreed and Useful took the field to her condominium, Bukovinac stated.

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The group confirmed video footage of them opening the field and eradicating a number of fetuses. Late-stage and third-trimester abortions are authorized within the District of Columbia. Nonetheless, the PAAU group maintains the abortions carried out could be a violation of federal legislation underneath the 2003 Partial-Beginning Abortion Act. 

In a Tuesday letter to Mayor Muriel Bowser and Police Chief Robert Contee, 23 congressional Republicans demanded “a radical investigation is performed into the demise of every youngster,” and requested for a response by the top of the day Wednesday.

The mayor’s workplace and Metropolitan Police Division didn’t reply to a request for remark from USA TODAY.

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Bukovinac stated she requested the motive force,” Would you be in bother if we took one in every of these containers? And he requested what would you do with them?”

Hardy instructed him, “we’ll give them a correct burial and a funeral,” Bukovinac stated.

Useful took one of many containers and stated she stored the fetuses “underneath my stewardship” in her dwelling whereas she and Bukovinac tried to search out an impartial pathologist to carry out an post-mortem. However Bukovinac stated that proved troublesome as a result of the docs they contacted have been “unwilling to become involved.”

Bukovinac stated the group buried the 110 smaller fetuses and “coordinated with attorneys to alert the D.C. murder unit on the placement of the 5 bigger infants and requested investigations into their deaths.”

Police got here to Useful’s dwelling on March 30 in response to a tip about “potential bio-hazard materials” at a house in Southeast Washington, they stated on the time. 

That very same day, Useful and eight others have been indicted for utilizing their our bodies, furnishings, chains and ropes to dam entry to a Washington reproductive well being heart on Oct. 22, 2020. They have been charged by the Justice Division and U.S. Legal professional’s Workplace for the District of Columbia with violating the federal Freedom of Entry to Clinic Entrances Act.

The D.C. medical expert’s workplace has, to date, declined to carry out any autopsies on the fetuses. Ashan Benedict, MPD’s government assistant chief of police, instructed reporters final week that the fetuses appeared to have been aborted “in accordance with D.C. legislation.” 

The D.C. medical expert’s workplace and the MPD each declined to remark Tuesday to The Related Press, with the police saying the case “stays underneath lively investigation.”

Curtis Bay Medical Waste didn’t reply to a request for remark from USA TODAY. However in an announcement to The Washington Submit, the corporate stated an worker on March 25 picked up three packages from the clinic and delivered all of them to the corporate’s incineration facility. “At no time did the Curtis Bay worker hand over any of those packages to the PAAU or different third celebration, and any allegations made in any other case are false,” the assertion learn.

Contributing: The Related Press

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