The Washington Police reported this Thursday the discovery of five
human fetuses in a house in the US capital, which local media identified as the residence of a well-known anti-abortion activist in the city.
As explained at a press conference by the executive assistant to the Washington Police Chief, Ashan Benedict, the agents went to an address in the southeast of the city when they were alerted that there could be “potentially hazardous biological material”. Upon arrival, the police found the five human fetuses.
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According to ‘NBC News’, the residence where the discovery was made is that of 28-year-old Lauren Handy. An activism director for the Atheist Anti-Abortion Progressive Rising group.
For now, The police are investigating the fact, since it is not known where they could have taken the fetuses.
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Handy told ‘Wusa-Tv’, an American media outlet, that “I expected the raid to happen sooner or later.”. Also, he added that surely “people would be scared when they heard” what was inside the bags carried by the officers.
Handy’s other crimes
In addition, she was accused along with eight other people on Wednesday, March 30, by the US Department of Justice, of conspiring to rob an abortion clinic and to erect a blockade to intimidate the center’s patients and workers in 2020.
Well, according to an accusation, that year she would have pretended to be a woman who was requesting medical health services in a clinic, and then intimidated the staff and patients.
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Imposed charges include violations of the Law of Freedom of Access to the Entrances of the Clinicsor the FACE Act, which prohibits physically obstructing or using the threat of force to intimidate or interfere with a person seeking reproductive health services.
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