US Attorney General confirms investigation for five late abortions in Washington DC

The United States Attorney General Pam Bondi confirmed this week that there is an “ongoing investigation” on the deaths of “The five of Washington DC”, the five aborted babies in advanced pregnancy stages that were found three years ago in an abortion clinic in the US capital.

During a budget hearing of the Department of Justice held on June 23 at the House of Representatives, Congressman Riley Moore recalled that in 2022 the police “recovered the remains of five children not born, apparently from an abortion clinic in DC, which seemed to have been victims of a brutal abortion by partial birth.”

Moore asked Bondi if the government would commit “to work with me and with this committee to carry out a complete and fair investigation into the death of these children, to ensure that justice is done with the five of DC.”

Bondi confirmed that it is “an ongoing investigation,” but added: “I can’t discuss this in this forum.”

The so -called “five of DC” were found in the house of Lauren Handy, a province activist and talks to Catholicism. The group Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising (Progressive uprising against abortion) He claimed to have received the remains of alleged informants who suspected that deaths could have violated federal laws against abortion by partial birth and infanticide.

The activists indicated that the bodies came from Washington Surgi-Clinic, an abortive clinic in the northwest of Washington DC, operated by the abortist of advanced pregnancies Cesare Santangelo.

After the finding, congressmen and senators Provida demanded autopsies to determine if any of the abortions was carried out after the babies had partially born, which would violate the law of prohibition of abortion by partial birth and the Law of Protection of the Living Born Child.

“The investigation journalism suggests that the Department of Justice of President Joe Biden ordered the chief forensic doctor of DC to destroy the remains of the children without performing autopsies, which, apparently, has not yet happened,” said Moore at the hearing.

Although the Department of Justice under the Biden Administration apparently did not investigate the case of the “five of DC”, it did prosecuted several activists Provide under the Law of Freedom of Access to Clinic Tickets (FACE). Lauren Handy was one of those prosecuted for her participation in a protest in an abortion clinic.

Handy was sentenced to four years and nine months in prison, but received the pardon from Donald Trump in January, along with 22 other Provida activists.

Although Bondi refused to provide details about the open investigation, he acknowledged that “the woman who recovered those five fetuses was convicted and then pardoned by President Trump, and it is alleged that they were basically not born babies … but I can’t talk more about it.”

This exchange between Moore and Bondi occurs shortly after a coalition of nine Provida organizations, led by Advancing American Freedom, sent a letter to the interim prosecutor of Washington, Jeanine Pirro, urging her to investigate the alleged case of infanticide.

Translated and adapted by the ACI Press team. Originally published in CNA.