So far, only five embryos have been recovered from police. And the story was quickly and vigorously challenged by a company trapped in the controversy that erupted after the arrest of marginal activist Lauren Handy last week for obstructing people seeking services at a DC abortion clinic. In a packed press conference on Tuesday, activists – including Randall Terry, founder of the extremist anti-abortion group Operation Rescue – said they wanted to clear the headlines of embryos that made headlines nationwide last week. “During the five days I was in custody, the 115 victims of abortion violence were buried for baptized children and 110 … were properly buried in a private cemetery,” said Handy, director of activism at Progressive Anti. -Recreation of abortions. Handy claimed that on March 25, she and Terrisa Bukovinac, the group’s founder and executive director, went to the Washington Surgi-Clinic to protest abortions. There, they said, they found a driver of a medical waste truck and asked him if they could take one of the boxes he was loading out, claiming it was full of “dead babies” and promising to make a “proper burial”. The driver’s employer, Curtis Bay Medical Waste Services, denied the group’s account, stating that the employee took three boxes from the reproductive health center and handed them over to the group’s incineration plant. “The Curtis Bay employee has never delivered any of these packages to PAAU or any other third party and any other allegation is false,” the company said in a statement. After what she described as a mass “burial” in an unknown location, Handy claimed that she finally “arranged for the medical examiner to take” the five embryos, claiming that they had injuries related to a violent crime. Both Handy and Bukovinac said they were still trying – unsuccessfully – to find a private doctor to examine the fetuses. The medical examiner’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment by The Daily Beast. The crazy turn comes after the Metropolitan Police Department told the Daily Beast that a police officer discovered five embryos while responding to a tip “on possible biohazard materials” at Handy’s home last Wednesday. Police declined to comment further on Khandi and the group’s latest allegations this week, but reiterated that the case “remains under investigation”. Assistant Chief of Police Ashan Benedict confirmed in a press conference that the embryos were “disposed of in accordance with DC law” and that the authorities “were not investigating this incident in that direction”. The DC epic was played out as far-right activists and lawmakers nationwide fought for abortion rights, successfully overcoming extreme restrictions on access to states such as Texas and Mississippi. On Tuesday, a new measure that is supposed to make it a felony to grant almost any abortion was cleared by the Oklahoma state legislature. Handy was outside her home as police removed coolers containing the embryos last week. Although he declined to comment in detail, he told WUSA9, “People will be scared when they hear that.” The discovery of the fetus came on the same day that Handy was indicted along with eight other anti-abortion protesters, after allegedly breaking into a DC health center and streaming it to Facebook in 2020. Handy pleaded not guilty to the charges this week. .
