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Owner of home where 5 fetuses were found clerked for Clarence Thomas (Original Post) FelineOverlord Apr 2022 OP
Wow! SheltieLover Apr 2022 #1
Weirder and weirder empedocles Apr 2022 #5
No kidding! SheltieLover Apr 2022 #11
Oh. My. God!!! Scrivener7 Apr 2022 #2
As religious zealots bought what they thought were the bones and shroud of Jesus Christ. TheBlackAdder Apr 2022 #43
Slum landlord, maybe? Samrob Apr 2022 #50
Given how they project.... underpants Apr 2022 #3
I'll say it KS Toronado Apr 2022 #77
That or underpants Apr 2022 #84
Jeebus. What a freak show. FalloutShelter Apr 2022 #4
What a bunch of freakzillas these thugs are...just wow....nt wcmagumba Apr 2022 #6
WTAH???? niyad Apr 2022 #7
Federalist Society member and partner at Jones Day, associate WH counsel under Trump. L. Coyote Apr 2022 #8
Oh my! malaise Apr 2022 #13
Since we have so many Federalist Society members engaged in really sketchy behavior, could Evolve Dammit Apr 2022 #33
Is this related to the Repub coke-fueled orgies with underaged sex slaves? C_U_L8R Apr 2022 #9
Emphasis on the... Hugin Apr 2022 #21
It seems there's a human energy field of sociopaths surrounding Clarence Thomas! Emile Apr 2022 #10
This 😮 Meowmee Apr 2022 #12
I don't think it's human. Reptilian more likely. japple Apr 2022 #35
Not mental illness! I_UndergroundPanther Apr 2022 #40
I agree they should not be lumped in with the majority Meowmee Apr 2022 #58
Narcissists I_UndergroundPanther Apr 2022 #65
narcissists too, many have more than one diagnosis Meowmee Apr 2022 #67
If trauma created sociopathy I_UndergroundPanther Apr 2022 #69
+1000 smirkymonkey Apr 2022 #78
I think there are far more s and p Meowmee Apr 2022 #89
Steve Jobs had a reality distortion field DBoon Apr 2022 #62
Right wingers are fucked up in the head. All of them. Patterson Apr 2022 #14
they have dark triad personality types. I_UndergroundPanther Apr 2022 #41
Small world. jeffreyi Apr 2022 #15
Just harvesting dweller Apr 2022 #16
This must be the swamp the GrOPpers are always stamping... Hugin Apr 2022 #17
Ginni's involved somehow, I just know it. sop Apr 2022 #18
I was thinking that, too. wnylib Apr 2022 #55
Thomas is a vortex of weird Effete Snob Apr 2022 #19
CREEPY fucking story bluestarone Apr 2022 #20
and the RW dared to scare America with PIZZAGATE. nt Grasswire2 Apr 2022 #22
And if we go by RW anti-abortion rhetoric, these aren't "fetuses," they're five dead babies. sop Apr 2022 #25
BINGO!! 70sEraVet Apr 2022 #29
Or planned pizza toppings.... erronis Apr 2022 #34
+100. Utterly disgusting... reACTIONary Apr 2022 #47
APRIL FOOLS !!!! ????? uponit7771 Apr 2022 #23
WTF? spanone Apr 2022 #24
I, for one, wouldn't know about this entire story if it weren't for DU IcyPeas Apr 2022 #26
It was in WaPo this morning... reACTIONary Apr 2022 #48
This is the most fucked-up Friday news dump ever Blue Owl Apr 2022 #27
LOLOL Grasswire2 Apr 2022 #28
Bet Stephen King is right now wnylib Apr 2022 #56
Okay, all we need now is... 2naSalit Apr 2022 #30
A basement that does not exist. keithbvadu2 Apr 2022 #49
Actually... 2naSalit Apr 2022 #53
Not that one. The pizza parlor that had no basement. keithbvadu2 Apr 2022 #60
Right. 2naSalit Apr 2022 #61
A basement that exists in another dimension outside of space an time DBoon Apr 2022 #63
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn Celerity Apr 2022 #74
With all the twisted republican shit I_UndergroundPanther Apr 2022 #90
How fucked up are the Republicans/ Libertarians/ MAGAT's? This is another good example Evolve Dammit Apr 2022 #31
Morrell not only clerked for Clarence, he's also a FEDERALIST SOCIETY member FakeNoose Apr 2022 #32
DNA might solve part of the puzzle. wnylib Apr 2022 #59
The Riddle of the Republican fetuses Achilleaze Apr 2022 #82
So all this crazy shit QAnon keeps rambling on about BlueIdaho Apr 2022 #36
Yes this story is getting really weird LetMyPeopleVote Apr 2022 #37
Housing incest bucolic_frolic Apr 2022 #38
Remember Shrub and the funeral home scandal? funeral gate? I_UndergroundPanther Apr 2022 #39
As weird as this seems, it's just another day for the... Hugin Apr 2022 #42
Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the FEDERALIST FETUSES !!! nt delisen Apr 2022 #44
This message was self-deleted by its author delisen Apr 2022 #45
Sheesh, You couldn't make this stuff up, even if.... reACTIONary Apr 2022 #46
This is some sick shit. sheshe2 Apr 2022 #51
My response as well... Pachamama Apr 2022 #85
'Cause there is. sheshe2 Apr 2022 #87
And they have the gall to call Democrats baby killers?! meow2u3 Apr 2022 #52
Every Republican accusation is a confession. smirkymonkey Apr 2022 #79
They obtain them as medical waste from clinics and then put their photos in propaganda LeftInTX Apr 2022 #54
So, these sickos have had these MerryBlooms Apr 2022 #64
This girl just got started. She's only 28. I think they steal as much as they can LeftInTX Apr 2022 #68
This is so gross and weird. I haven't watched any MerryBlooms Apr 2022 #70
This is so gross and weird. I haven't watched any MerryBlooms Apr 2022 #71
Where's Rachel when we really need her? Totally Tunsie Apr 2022 #57
And as she held the rotting fetuses in her arms ymetca Apr 2022 #66
I am confused what does the woman have to do with the story? CrackityJones75 Apr 2022 #72
Apparently they're evidence canetoad Apr 2022 #73
Not according to NPR malaise Apr 2022 #75
Lauren Handy and Monica Miller FelineOverlord Apr 2022 #76
WTF? smirkymonkey Apr 2022 #80
Republicans have so much evil shit going on Achilleaze Apr 2022 #81
What the.... WHAT?!? onecaliberal Apr 2022 #83
I wonder if they planned on using those fetuses for some kind of setup? Plant them in medical waste brewens Apr 2022 #86
That guy screams Incel PlanetBev Apr 2022 #88

TheBlackAdder

(28,209 posts)
43. As religious zealots bought what they thought were the bones and shroud of Jesus Christ.
Fri Apr 1, 2022, 08:20 PM
Apr 2022

.

As people would grave rob for clothing, bones, teeth, hair, etc. from kings and other royalty.

Then they would proudly display their goods or wear the bone fragments in a necklace.


This story might venture towards the really perverse, possibly black market sales, trinkets, etc.

.

Evolve Dammit

(16,747 posts)
33. Since we have so many Federalist Society members engaged in really sketchy behavior, could
Fri Apr 1, 2022, 07:38 PM
Apr 2022

some investigative reporter(s) do an in-depth expose into the main players, funding and agenda(s) of the organization? Asking for a friend. Her name is Lady Liberty.

Emile

(22,824 posts)
10. It seems there's a human energy field of sociopaths surrounding Clarence Thomas!
Fri Apr 1, 2022, 06:45 PM
Apr 2022

Last edited Fri Apr 1, 2022, 09:59 PM - Edit history (1)

I_UndergroundPanther

(12,480 posts)
40. Not mental illness!
Fri Apr 1, 2022, 08:06 PM
Apr 2022

its a personality type,sociopath.

Please stop lumping in these asshole sociopaths and narcissists and authoritarian personality types in with us mentally ill and those traumatized by dark triad assholes!

I am so sick of this shit!

Meowmee

(5,164 posts)
58. I agree they should not be lumped in with the majority
Fri Apr 1, 2022, 10:21 PM
Apr 2022

Of people who suffer from mental health conditions. Sociopaths and psychopaths are considered to have aspd antisocial personality disorder which is a mental health diagnosis. They can be non violent.

I_UndergroundPanther

(12,480 posts)
65. Narcissists
Fri Apr 1, 2022, 11:30 PM
Apr 2022

And authoritarians are also on that spectrum of abusive personality type.

Sociopaths and other dark triad people. cannot be cured with therapy,medication does not help.. this means to me the problem is not an illness or trauma that can heal,its who they are thats the problem. A mental illness can improve.

Dark triads never change or improve because they think they are ok as they are. And thier toxicity serves them well.

They create mental illness via trauma.

Meowmee

(5,164 posts)
67. narcissists too, many have more than one diagnosis
Fri Apr 1, 2022, 11:48 PM
Apr 2022

There are other conditions that can’t improve very much either, many more benign. Some of these people were traumatized themselves as infants / children which is how they became psychopaths etc. maybe some have a hereditary inclination as well. Then you have people like dump who enjoy hurting others as well, sadists.

I_UndergroundPanther

(12,480 posts)
69. If trauma created sociopathy
Sat Apr 2, 2022, 12:12 AM
Apr 2022

There would be a hell of a lot more psychopaths than there is now.

I think dark triads are often dark triad before they get abused.

People with empathy tend to not want to treat people like thier abuser treated them.

https://med.uth.edu/psychiatry/2019/10/18/child-sexual-abuse-and-the-myth-of-vampire-syndrome/

Meowmee

(5,164 posts)
89. I think there are far more s and p
Sun Apr 3, 2022, 06:50 PM
Apr 2022

Than we would like to admit, evidence the war atrocities we are seeing today. Most are on a lower level and are not violent offenders. As to what creates it there seem to be two schools of thought, imo it is most likely a combination of hereditary factors plus environment.

Hugin

(33,169 posts)
17. This must be the swamp the GrOPpers are always stamping...
Fri Apr 1, 2022, 06:56 PM
Apr 2022

Their patent leather Buster Browns and hollering about.

(an aside, though, this is also the result of a permanent seat of power developing an ingrained aristocracy due to lifetime appointments. which allows the crazy attic dwellers a pass to be near the levers of government.)

IcyPeas

(21,894 posts)
26. I, for one, wouldn't know about this entire story if it weren't for DU
Fri Apr 1, 2022, 07:15 PM
Apr 2022

because this stuff is never reported on where the general public may hear of it to learn just how hypocritical and creepy these people are.

and I wish it would.

reACTIONary

(5,770 posts)
48. It was in WaPo this morning...
Fri Apr 1, 2022, 08:39 PM
Apr 2022

... I was going to post it here, but it had already made it into breaking news.

2naSalit

(86,680 posts)
61. Right.
Fri Apr 1, 2022, 10:32 PM
Apr 2022

Well, I figured we could help them out if there was one. Since there is a basement in the story, I'm gonna go with that!

DBoon

(22,382 posts)
63. A basement that exists in another dimension outside of space an time
Fri Apr 1, 2022, 11:03 PM
Apr 2022

inhabited by the great old ones

I_UndergroundPanther

(12,480 posts)
90. With all the twisted republican shit
Sun Apr 3, 2022, 08:27 PM
Apr 2022

Coming out,could the stars be lining up right for chthulu to awken?

I hope I get eaten first.....

FakeNoose

(32,673 posts)
32. Morrell not only clerked for Clarence, he's also a FEDERALIST SOCIETY member
Fri Apr 1, 2022, 07:34 PM
Apr 2022

So now we need to know if he lived there before he leased it to the other lady.
Whose fetuses ARE these, really? What is he hiding? There are so many questions.

wnylib

(21,528 posts)
59. DNA might solve part of the puzzle.
Fri Apr 1, 2022, 10:23 PM
Apr 2022

Test each fetus to see if they came from the same person. Test the owner of the building and his tenant. Test the fetal development stage.

My first thought was that they might have been stolen from a clinic. But then, why?

My second thought was that someone connected to that building paid for or had abortions and hid the evidence in the basement. But that's just as bizarre as stealing from a clinic. Were secret abortions done in the basement?

Or, were these the result of miscarriages? If so, why not have them legally disposed of?

"Curiouser and curiouser," to quote Alice.

BlueIdaho

(13,582 posts)
36. So all this crazy shit QAnon keeps rambling on about
Fri Apr 1, 2022, 07:42 PM
Apr 2022

Is actually stuff republicans are doing? It all makes sense now.

I_UndergroundPanther

(12,480 posts)
39. Remember Shrub and the funeral home scandal? funeral gate?
Fri Apr 1, 2022, 08:02 PM
Apr 2022

Why did Bush stop the investigation of corpse abuse?


https://www.hereinreality.com/funeralgate.htm#.YkeT4OjMK5c


How many repubs involved with dead bodies sex scandals and drugs?

Response to FelineOverlord (Original post)

Pachamama

(16,887 posts)
85. My response as well...
Sat Apr 2, 2022, 05:37 PM
Apr 2022

Dark sick shit…

Why do I also feel there is much darker stuff behind this?

sheshe2

(83,818 posts)
87. 'Cause there is.
Sat Apr 2, 2022, 05:58 PM
Apr 2022

The GOP and Q's are insane, lawless and have no heart and soul. Just darkness. I don't think there is a redeeming quality in 95% of them.

LeftInTX

(25,436 posts)
54. They obtain them as medical waste from clinics and then put their photos in propaganda
Fri Apr 1, 2022, 09:49 PM
Apr 2022

Mahoney said the antiabortion movement has a history, especially in the 1970s and 1980s — when medical disposal was less stringent — of going into clinic dumpsters in search of fetal remains so they could do burial services. Activists sometimes would use the material for advocacy.https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2022/04/01/lauren-handy-dc-abortion-fetuses/

You know those anti-abortion fetus pictures that we see?...that's what this is. Someone at a clinic gave them to the group.

MerryBlooms

(11,770 posts)
64. So, these sickos have had these
Fri Apr 1, 2022, 11:10 PM
Apr 2022

Specimens in the basement for 40 years plus? I am calling bullshit on their excuse. No way. Let's dig way down into both their profiles and find out what they have been up to.

LeftInTX

(25,436 posts)
68. This girl just got started. She's only 28. I think they steal as much as they can
Sat Apr 2, 2022, 12:09 AM
Apr 2022

I really don't see how we could prove that she has been having abortions..LOL

MerryBlooms

(11,770 posts)
71. This is so gross and weird. I haven't watched any
Sat Apr 2, 2022, 12:44 AM
Apr 2022

Mainstream news today. Do you know if it's being covered? Wouldn't it be a hoot if cawthorn's sex/drug orgies and babies in basements, were lead gop headlines!?! 🤣

ymetca

(1,182 posts)
66. And as she held the rotting fetuses in her arms
Fri Apr 1, 2022, 11:46 PM
Apr 2022

one could hear her softly whispering to them, "My preciouses!"

- from The Tale of the Federalist Fetus-Snatcher, by Clive Barker

 

CrackityJones75

(2,403 posts)
72. I am confused what does the woman have to do with the story?
Sat Apr 2, 2022, 02:03 AM
Apr 2022

Is she involved? Was she a complaintant having found the fetuses? Who is responsible for the fetuses? Him or the woman????

canetoad

(17,171 posts)
73. Apparently they're evidence
Sat Apr 2, 2022, 03:38 AM
Apr 2022

Of late term abortions. I thought they may have been on to some kind of Pet Sematary thing.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/dc-medical-examiner-has-no-plans-to-autopsy-fetuses-removed-from-antiabortion-activist-e2-80-99s-home-officials-say/ar-AAVLQX8

The city medical examiner does not plan at this time to perform autopsies on the five fetuses police removed from a Capitol Hill rowhouse earlier this week, according to two D.C. officials with knowledge of the case, even though the group involved in their discovery claims the fetuses were all late-term abortions performed illegally

The fetuses were found in a basement apartment occupied by Lauren Handy, a well-known local antiabortion protester and director of activism for Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising.

PAAU said in a statement Thursday evening that it received the fetuses from a “whistleblower” who worked at Washington Surgi-Clinic, a D.C. abortion clinic, and had arranged for police to pick them up because they believe the fetuses were aborted illegally.

The clinic declined to comment, but its website says it performs abortions up to 27 weeks of pregnancy, which is at the very end of the second trimester.

Handy and other members of her group scheduled a news conference Tuesday where they said they would share details.

malaise

(269,096 posts)
75. Not according to NPR
Sat Apr 2, 2022, 08:17 AM
Apr 2022
https://www.npr.org/2022/04/01/1090206447/dc-police-find-5-fetuses-lauren-handy

A local television station, WUSA9, captured video of police searching the home and reported that the home belonged to Lauren Handy. The 28-year-old was one of nine people charged in an indictment that was made public on Wednesday that accused the group of traveling to Washington, blocking access to the reproductive health center and streaming it on Facebook.

The station, which first reported the discovery, said Handy told a reporter that "people will freak out when they hear" what detectives found inside her house. Handy did not respond to a message sent to her Facebook profile seeking comment.

In the indictment, prosecutors said Handy had called the clinic pretending to be a prospective patient and scheduling an appointment. Once there, on Oct. 22, 2020, eight of the suspects pushed their way inside and began blocking the doors, according to the indictment. Five of them chained themselves together on chairs to block the treatment area as others blocked the employee entrance to stop other patients from coming inside, the indictment alleges. Another suspect blocked people from coming into the waiting room, prosecutors charge.

Handy and the eight others were charged with conspiracy against rights and violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act. The federal law, more commonly known as the FACE Act, prohibits physically obstructing or using the threat of force to intimidate or interfere with a person seeking reproductive health services.

FelineOverlord

(3,580 posts)
76. Lauren Handy and Monica Miller
Sat Apr 2, 2022, 03:17 PM
Apr 2022

Lauren Handy, the anarchist anti-abortion activist at the center of this story, is non-binary.

There’s also Monica Miller, best known for keeping fetal remains in her home for photographs and eventual burial.


brewens

(13,602 posts)
86. I wonder if they planned on using those fetuses for some kind of setup? Plant them in medical waste
Sat Apr 2, 2022, 05:38 PM
Apr 2022

or something and try and claim some facility was doing illegal abortions.

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