DC Homicide detectives pull out collected 5 fetuses from home connected to anti-abortion activist

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The US Justice Department announced Wednesday it indicted nine people nationwide it says were involved in an October 2020 "invasion" of a DC reproductive health care clinic.

WUSA9’s camera was there as DC Police homicide and forensic services detectives took evidence out in red biohazard bags and coolers from a rowhouse basement on 6th St SE. At this time, WUSA9 does not know what was in those containers.

According to an indictment - the nine - including two northern Virginia residents - "forcefully entered the clinic" and chained themselves to fixtures inside.

WUSA9 has learned one of those indicted - Lauren Handy - lived at the 6th St Southeast DC rowhouse DC Police raided.

All nine now face federal charges of intimidating employees and a patient -- and preventing patients from receiving reproductive health services.

When speaking about the DC Police raid, Lauren Handy told WUSA9 outside her home that as an anti-abortion activist, she expected Wednesday’s events to “happen sooner or later.” She declined to explain the evidence DC Police took from her home while she was being questioned at the FBI’s Washington Field Office, only to explain that “people would freak out when they heard.” Handy declined to speak on camera.

Nine anti-abortion activists were indicted on federal felony charges for blocking the entrance to a D.C. clinic in October 2020.

The indictment was unsealed Wednesday in D.C. District Court charging a group of activists from around the country with forcing their way into the Washington Surgi-Clinic on F Street NW and using chains and rope to block the entrance.

Charged in the indictment are:

Lauren Handy, of Virginia;
Jonathan Darnell, of Virginia;
Jay Smith, of New York;
Paulette Harlow, of Massachusetts;
Jean Marshall, of Massachusetts;
John Hinshaw, of New York;
Heather Idoni, of Michigan;
William Goodman, of Michigan;
Joan Bell, of New Jersey.

https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/dc/dc-homicide-detectives-pull-biohazard-evidence-from-home-connected-to-anti-abortion-activist-arrests/65-b15087a9-c3d7-45ba-b3f3-7a72a918f959

Updates: https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/crime/five-fetuses-found-at-home-of-anti-abortion-activist-dc-police-say-lauren-handy-jonathan-darnell-clinic/65-f4399616-16be-4e99-9951-e7d299d7e8cd

[Hekate]

1. Freaks of fanaticism

[Evolve Dammit]

8. indeed. Appropriate description

[Srkdqltr]

2. Some people are screwy.

[Maraya1969]

3. Too bad they didn't ask for the keys if "You're serious" and then close up shop and go home for the

night. Let them really experience what being chained up with no way to get out is like

[TheBlackAdder]

4. Did anyone check to see if she had an on-line store selling fetal tissue vial necklaces? 🤔

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[Maraya1969]

7. According to Google that picture is of a woman who was arrested for offering Meth to a young girl.

I don't know what is the point of the text?????

[WhiskeyGrinder]

19. What is this?

[Faux pas]

5. Kickin' with disgust!

[keithbvadu2]

6. Go ahead and chain yourselves to the fixtures.

Go ahead and chain yourselves to the fixtures.

You can go to the bathroom and get food/water any time you want.

All you have to do is unchain yourselves.

We don't deliver.

[zuul]

9. I don't see any explanation as to how she came to be in possession of 5 fetuses.

Are they fetuses from her body, I mean sacred vessel? Did she steal them?

This is so fucking weird.

[Rebl2]

10. Yes

you would think they would explain where they came from.

[xmas74]

12. They might not know at this time.

Unless she tells them it could be weeks before they know-if they ever know.

[soldierant]

16. I think they suspect they were obtained,

either from the clinic to which they chained themselves, or from some other medical facility, to use as "evidence" agains abortion prociders in general.

Of course that mens they, not the abortion providers, who are "desecrating" fetuses - using them to assert political points - in a fraudlent manner at that - something no woman getting an abortion would likely ever do.

(Unless she was a Republican. They'd do anything.)

[PatrickforB]

11. These 'christian' anti-abortion fanatics are every bit as bad as the Taliban.

Give these fucks an inch and women will no longer have birth control, access to abortions, no longer have the vote (along with anyone not a white male), the kids won't be able to read any REAL history, and people with different ideas will be...rounded up and killed.

I shit you not.

These people are DANGEROUS.

[RainCaster]

14. You forgot: "white Straight Christian male"

They do have their standards to maintain.

[SmallFry]

13. I'm thinking more charges are going to drop.

It's also my understanding they directly interfered in a medical procedure in 2020 at the clinic they terrorized.

[Nululu]

15. Fetus worshippers

[turbinetree]

17. Well read them there rights and then lock them up....

[Jetheels]

18. Shouldn't they be charged with kidnapping, since in their view fetuses are children?

[jmowreader]

20. She's right

People are “freaking out when they hear “

But they’re freaking out about the five fetuses, not anything that goes on in the clinic.