D.C. police say their investigation is continuing.
The same day the nine were charged, D.C. police discovered five fetuses in a Capitol Hill rowhouse basement where Handy
had been staying. Police said they received a tip that a group had fetuses that it suspected came from illegal abortions, and Handy’s group, Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising, saidthat it had called police to the apartment to get the fetuses so they could be inspected. District officials said the city medical examiner has no plans at this time to perform autopsies on the fetuses because they appeared to have been aborted in accordance with D.C. law.On Monday, D.C. Police Chief Robert J.
The officials would not say whether the leaders of the D.C. clinic, where the group says the fetuses originated, are cooperating.Both officials said “everything is on the table” for investigation, including whether the clinic followed proper procedures in disposing of the fetuses, as well as the actions of Handy, who said she obtained them.Another District official said the D.C.
D.C. Medical Examiner has no plans to autopsy fetuses removed from antiabortion activist’s home, officials say D.C. and seven states do not have specific laws prohibiting abortion after a certain point in pregnancy. Randall Terry, serving as a spokesman for Handy and her group, said the activists want an investigation of whether the clinic violated federal law, which restricts when a procedure known as “intact dilation and extraction” can be performed and extends legal rights to fetuses that survive abortions.Spencer S. Hsu contributed to this report.On Dec.
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