Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is urging Washington, DC authorities to preserve the remains of five unborn fetuses recently discovered by police in a house a few blocks from the U.S. Capitol. Cruz sent a letter to DC Mayor Muriel Bowser and Metropolitan Police Chief Robert Contee III on Friday stating that the fetuses “may have been murdered or expelled in violation of federal law.” He wants to keep track of a possible criminal investigation and oversight by Congress. WASHINGTON DC MEN WORKING AS FEDERATED AS FEDERAL AGENTS HAD WEAPON STOCKS, NEW EVENTS “It seems that the Metropolitan Police Department has assumed the cause and nature of the deaths of these children without investigation,” Cruz wrote in his letter. “It has recently come to my notice that the DC government can incinerate the bodies of these five children without conducting an investigation, without conducting an autopsy and without allowing these children a proper, respectful burial.” Senator Ted Cruz, R-Texas (Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images) Cruz is on the Senate Judiciary Committee. He also called on police and the mayor to “direct the medical examiner of DC to conduct an autopsy on each of these five child bodies, according to the type of method and detail that would be carried out in a homicide investigation.” The request comes after DC found five embryos in a house in the Capitol on March 31, where an anti-abortion activist was staying. Authorities at the time found that the fetuses had been aborted under DC law, according to Fox 5 DC. HHS BECERRA SECRETARY REFUSES TO ACCEPT PART-BIRTH ABORTIONS ARE ILLEGAL AT HOME TESTIMONY The discovery came the same day investigators were at home and arrested anti-abortion activist Lauren Handy as part of a federal indictment alleging that Handy and eight others tried to prevent patients from entering an abortion clinic in DC on October 22, 2020. reported the news station. An anti-abortion protester protests in front of the Supreme Court building on the day of the hearing in the Mississippi abortion rights case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, Washington, USA, December 1, 2021. (REUTERS / Jonathan Ernst) Handy and Terrisa Bukovinac, members of the Progressive Abortion Uprising, told a news conference on Tuesday that the five fetuses were among a total of 115 fetuses obtained by the Washington DC Medical waste team, according to USA Today. They said they asked the medical waste company driver if they could take one of the biohazard boxes loaded onto his truck. The company denied these allegations. Anti-abortion activists take part in the 49th Annual Life March as they march in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on January 21, 2022 in Washington, DC. The rally draws activists from across the country who are calling on the US Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade’s decision to legalize abortions nationwide. (Win McNamee / Getty Images) The Progressive Abortion Uprising has asked police to investigate the remains for evidence of federal illegal abortions in the final stages. Already 23 Republicans in the House and Senate have sent a similar letter calling on DC authorities to investigate how the unborn children died. CLICK HERE TO RECEIVE THE FOX NEWS APPLICATION “Based on data collected at the time of recovery and photos released to the public, all five of these children appear to have developed far beyond the viability point and may have undergone severely painful abortion procedures, although without an autopsy. “It is not known how each child died,” the letter said. DC police and the mayor’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
