5 fetuses found in anti-abortion activist’s home, according to Metropolitan Police

Police on Wednesday found five fetuses in the Washington, D.C., home of an anti-abortion activist who has also been indicted in connection with a siege on a reproductive health care clinic.

The fetuses were found after information was given “regarding a potentially biohazardous substance” in the home where Lauren Handy was reportedly staying, the Metropolitan Police Department said. The investigation is still ongoing and the embryos were handed over to the coroner’s office.

Handy said outside the house on Wednesday that she expected the raid to happen “sooner or later.” According to CBS WUSA. She declined to speak on camera but said that “people would be horrified when they heard” what was in the evidence bags taken by the police, the station reported.

Handy’s phone number was not immediately available through Public Records, which recently lists her as a Virginia resident.

On Wednesday, the US Department of Justice announced that Handy, 28, is one of nine anti-abortion activists charged with conspiracy against rights and violating access to clinic entrances.

She introduced herself as a woman named “Hazel Jenkins” in October 2020 and claimed to be seeking services from a reproductive health care clinic in the capital, according to the unidentified indictment. The indictment said the meeting was broadcast live on Facebook.

Handy and others allegedly forced their way into the clinic and locked the doors.

The indictment also alleges that the defendants violated the FACE Act by using physical obstruction to injure, intimidate and interfere with clinic staff and a patient “because they were providing or obtaining reproductive health services.”

A federal attorney general representing Handy in the federal case did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the fetuses on Thursday.

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