Conservative and pro-life groups are again asking the Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate five fetuses found near a Washington, D.C. clinic in 2022 now that President Donald Trump is back in office.
Nine organizations sent a letter Tuesday to U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro sounding the alarm about pro-life activists’ discovery of the bodies in containers from the Washington Surgi-Clinic. Some of the babies discovered were so large that they brought suspicion of illegal partial-birth or post-birth abortions, and the Biden administration only prosecuted those who protested at the clinic in 2020.
“In 2022, pro-life activists in Washington, D.C., discovered possible violations of the Partial-Birth Abortion Act and the Born-Alive Infant Protection Act,” reads the letter from Advancing American Freedom, Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, Students for Life, Concerned Women for America, Family Research Council, Live Action, Human Coalition, Catholic Vote and American Family Association.
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“Being vigilant citizens, they alerted the D.C. police,” the letter said. “Tragically, rather than investigate the incident properly, the Biden Administration worked to sweep the allegations under the rug and silence the individuals involved by prosecuting them.”
Pirro and the Washington Surgi-Clinic did not respond to requests for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Activists with Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising (PAAU) found more than 100 aborted babies in toxic waste containers from the Washington Surgi-Clinic in March 2022, including the five that sparked concerns of possible infanticide.
“The horrific wounds on the bodies of these innocent children — some who were nearly full-term, and all may have been able to survive outside the womb — indicate destructive violations of federal law,” Live Action President Lila Rose previously told the DCNF.
Former President Joe Biden’s DOJ filed criminal charges in March 2022 against PAAU leader Lauren Handy, who spoke out about the five abortions, and others over a 2020 protest at the clinic. Handy was sentenced to 57 months in prison under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, but Trump pardoned her and several other pro-life protesters in January.
The letter to Pirro also noted that Biden’s DOJ was accused of ordering Washington, D.C., officials to incinerate the bodies, but they held off amid pressure from Republicans in Congress. Members of Congress continued to call for a proper investigation into the matter throughout Biden’s presidency.
“As the Interim United States Attorney for Washington, D.C., it is your responsibility to follow the facts where they may lead and enforce federal law to protect those most vulnerable in our nation’s capital: the unborn,” the advocacy groups told Pirro.
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