{"id":1420232,"date":"2022-04-05T14:29:37","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T18:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1420232"},"modified":"2022-04-05T14:29:44","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T18:29:44","slug":"gop-lawmakers-demand-d-c-doj-investigate-bodies-of-aborted-babies-uncovered-by-pro-life-activists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-lawmakers-demand-d-c-doj-investigate-bodies-of-aborted-babies-uncovered-by-pro-life-activists\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Lawmakers Demand D.C., DOJ Investigate Bodies Of Aborted Babies Uncovered By Pro-Life Activists"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgop-lawmakers-demand-d-c-doj-investigate-bodies-of-aborted-babies-uncovered-by-pro-life-activists%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1420232&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-05-at-1.51.06-PM.png?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 U.S. lawmakers are calling on Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and the Department of Justice to investigate the abortions of five babies whose bodies were allegedly recovered by pro-life activists from an abortion clinic.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter, exclusively obtained by The Daily Wire, Republican lawmakers remind Bowser and Attorney General Merrick Garland that the babies \u201cdeserve to have their deaths investigated to ensure that no D.C. or federal laws were broken.\u201d The bodies were allegedly recovered by members of Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising (PAAU), who said they intercepted a box with dismembered babies before it was sent to a medical waste center.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn light of this, we demand that a thorough investigation is conducted into the death of each child,\u201d the lawmakers wrote in the letter, which will be sent Tuesday night. They note that \u201cin order to accomplish such [an] investigation, we request and fully expect the city to preserve all of the children\u2019s remains as evidence and conduct autopsies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The letter is led by James Lankford of Oklahoma and Jim Jordan of Ohio and signed by Thom Tillis of North Carolina, James Risch of Idaho, Mike Braun of Indiana, Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, Roger Marshall of Kansas, Josh Hawley of Missouri, and Mike Crapo of Idaho. It is supported by Catholic Vote and other groups, including Live Action, Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee, March for Life, Students for Life Action, the Susan B. Anthony List and Americans United for Life.<\/p>\n<p>PAAU says the box contained 110 mostly pulverized babies who were aborted in the first trimester as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/d-c-authorities-wont-autopsy-recovered-bodies-of-these-aborted-babies-police-are-hiding-barbaric-crimes-pro-lifers-say\">several babies<\/a> killed through late-term abortions. That box was from Washington Surgi Center, an abortion clinic in downtown D.C., and covered in Curtis Bay Medical Waste Center labels, the activists say. PAAU photos show boxes on a dolly fitting this description.<\/p>\n<p>Curtis Bay Medical Waste Services denied that any of their boxes were taken and denied that they dispose of fetal remains in a Tuesday morning statement and phone call with The Daily Wire. \u201cAt no time did the Curtis Bay employee hand over any of these packages to the Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising or other third party, and any allegations made otherwise are false,\u201d the statement said. The company said that a Curtis Bay employee took custody of three packages from Washington Surgi Clinic on March 25 and delivered all of these packages to Curtis Bay\u2019s incineration facility.<\/p>\n<p>Washington Surgi Center, which did not respond to The Daily Wire\u2019s requests for comment,\u00a0 is a \u201cfacility operated by the late-term abortionist Dr. Cesare Santangelo,\u201d the lawmakers noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstead of ensuring that the horrific deaths of these children were properly investigated, Metropolitan Police made the assumption that each child died as the result of a legal abortion,\u201d the letter said. \u201cIt is our understanding that this assumption was made without conducting any medical evaluations. We also understand from press reports that the D.C. medical examiner does not plan to perform autopsies on the children. This is completely unacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The lawmakers noted that \u201ckilling a child through a partial-birth abortion is a crime under federal law,\u201d citing both the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 and the Born Alive Infants Protection Act.<\/p>\n<p>The lawmakers wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>While other horrific methods of abortion unfortunately remain legal for the time being, killing a child through a partial-birth abortion is a crime under federal law. Under the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003, a partial-birth abortion occurs when a physician partially delivers a living child for the purpose of performing an overt act that intentionally takes the life of the child.The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the federal ban on partial-birth abortions in\u00a0Gonzales v. Carhart\u00a0in 2007[2].<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Additionally, Congress passed the Born Alive Infants Protection Act to provide equal protections for children who are born alive during an abortion. If the bodies of other babies who were not aborted were recovered in a similar fashion, it would be hard to imagine Metropolitan Police declining to conduct a thorough investigation into the deaths of each child.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>All five of the babies whose bodies PAAU obtained appear to have \u201cdeveloped well past the point of viability\u201d and likely suffered excruciating abortions, the lawmakers wrote, citing \u201cevidence collected at the time of recovery and photos that have been publicly shared.\u201d But the lawmakers noted that without an autopsy, they cannot determine how \u201ceach child died.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor example, one baby girl has significant damage to her head, with deep lacerations at the back of the neck, and may have been victim of an illegal partial birth abortion,\u201d they wrote. \u201cAnother baby was found in its amniotic sac and could have been born alive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The lawmakers ask Bowser to address, by April 6, how police reached the conclusion that the babies were legally aborted. They also ask her to commit to investigating the abortion of each baby, to preserving the baby\u2019s remains as evidence, and to direct the city medical examiner and \u2014 then an independent, licensed pathologist \u2014 to perform an autopsy on each child.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf any autopsy suggests any of the children were victims of criminal activity, will you immediately refer the evidence to both the Department of Justice and the Attorney General for the District of Columbia for criminal prosecution,\u201d the lawmakers asked.<\/p>\n<p>Pro-life activists have expressed concerns to The Daily Wire that the baby bodies will be destroyed before proper autopsies have been done. It is not immediately clear whether the baby bodies have been disposed of.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">D.C. police <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BzrHrG6BcCs\">have said<\/a> that the babies were aborted legally. D.C. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wusa9.com\/article\/features\/producers-picks\/anti-abortion-activists-publish-shocking-photos-of-fetuses-police-seized-from-capitol-hill-apartment\/65-f7742297-eab0-40eb-9895-f00f4766f505\">does not have any specific law<\/a> that bans abortion at any point, effectively allowing abortions through nine months of pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, sports, podcasts, in-depth analysis, books, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. We believe in our country, in the value of truth and the freedom to speak it, and in the right to challenge tyranny wherever we see it. 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