Anti-abortion activist Lauren Handy speaks during a news conference in Washington, DC, on Tuesday. The anti-abortion group Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising said it took 115 fetuses from a medical waste truck.
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Anti-abortion activist Lauren Handy speaks during a news conference in Washington, DC, on Tuesday. The anti-abortion group Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising said it took 115 fetuses from a medical waste truck.
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An anti-abortion group that is facing federal charges earlier said it took 115 fetuses from a medical waste company and buried 110 of them at an undisclosed location.
Washington, DC, police, initially said they found five fetus in one of the group members’ apartments, continuing to investigate the incident.
At a news conference On Tuesday, two members of Progressive Anti-abortion Foundation, Terrisa Bukovinac and Lauren Handy, said they received fetal remains from a medical waste company employee who gave them the box from his truck.
Two women saw a truck carrying medical waste from Curtis Bay Medical Waste Services, outside Washington Surgi-Clinic, where medical procedures like abortions are performed. The women said then they brought the box to Handy’s apartment. In total, they confirmed there were 115 fetuses in the boxes.
Bukovinac said at the news conference that she asked the truck driver if he would get in trouble if they took one of the boxes. She said he was shaken when they told him what was inside the box. The two women apparently told the driver they were going to bury the fetuses.
“The driver thought for a second and he said, ‘Okay,'” Bukovinac said.
Curtis Bay Medical Waste Services told WUSA9 that it did not transport fetal remains and denied that any packages had been delivered to the anti-abortion group. The Baltimore-based company did not respond to NPR’s request for comment.
Several members of anti-abortion groups face federal charges from 2020, when they protested at an abortion clinic. They were charged with conspiracy against rights and violations The Act of Freedom of Access to Clinics.
