Lauren Handy

The discovery came a day after Lauren Handy and eight others were indicted for allegedly forcing their way into an abortion clinic.

Before the clinic opened, Handy then walked up to a receptionist outside, according to the indictment, and gave her false name for the appointment. In her Facebook profile, Handy has made multiple anti-abortion posts and described actions that she and others have taken. Terry could be heard in the background passing his contact information to Bukovinac to give this reporter. Handy allegedly called the clinic days in advance, giving them a false name and making an appointment for 9 a.m. that day. We're going to lay out a timeline." When the clinic doors opened, seven other defendants allegedly forced their way inside.

Lauren Handy claims she gained access to organ bank at university in Seattle but authorities haven't disclosed source of fetuses.

The university cold room contained brown bags, in which donated fetal remains dating back to the 1960s were stored inside new containers. She and eight co-defendants could face up to 11 years in prison and $350,000 in fines if found guilty. Handy was separately indicted on Wednesday for forcing entry into a Washington DC abortion clinic in 2020 October.

Police in Washington confirmed the discovery of five fetuses in the home of anti-abortion activist Lauren Handy, currently accused of blockading a clinic.

At Handy’s direction, members of the group allegedly moved chairs in the waiting room to block a door to the clinic’s treatment area. “Handy directed conspirators on what to do.” Shortly before the clinic opened, Handy and eight of her co-defendants—Jay Smith, Paulette Harlow, Jean Marshall, John Hinshaw, Heather Idoni, William Goodman, and Joan Bell—allegedly gathered in the hallway and stairwell outside the clinic. When Handy arrived, she presented herself to a medical specialist at the clinic, again claiming the false identity. They are also accused of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act. “Upon further investigation, MPD located five fetuses inside a residence at the location,” the statement said.

The police said they had gone to a home in Washington to investigate a tip about “potential biohazard material” when officers found the fetuses inside.

The police said they had gone to the home around 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday to investigate a tip about “potential biohazard material” when officers found the fetuses inside. She dropped out of college and started working in the anti-abortion movement full time and eventually converted to Catholicism, EWTN reported. Ms. Handy declined to say what was in the coolers but said that “people would freak out when they heard,” WUSA reported. The group said they were in “their late gestational ages” and in a condition that showed possible violations of the federal Partial Birth Abortion Act, which bans certain medical procedures late in a pregnancy. She described handing out fliers outside abortion clinics and seeking to persuade women not to go inside. Wade decision, which established a constitutional right to abortion. The group also said a funeral Mass and “naming ceremony” were held. Terrisa Bukovinac, the founder and executive director of Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising, confirmed that the home belonged to Lauren Handy, 28, the group’s director of activism, who was arrested and charged with federal civil rights offenses this week. The fetuses were collected by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, the police said, and an investigation was continuing. In a two-count indictment announced by the Justice Department on Wednesday, Ms. Handy was charged with directing eight other people who used their bodies, furniture, chains and ropes to block the doors of an abortion clinic in Washington on Oct. 22, 2020 — an action that one of them livestreamed on Facebook. The police said they had gone to a home in Washington to investigate a tip about “potential biohazard material” when officers found the fetuses inside. “It is her apartment,” Ms. Bukovinac said, adding that the group would have more to say at a news conference on Tuesday. “We are definitely going to reveal all the details on Tuesday, and they are explosive,” Ms. Bukovinac said.

Five fetuses were found in the Washington DC home of an anti-abortion activist who was indicted this week on federal charges for allegedly blocking access ...

Another suspect blocked people from coming into the waiting room, prosecutors charge. Benedict said the investigation into Handy’s home was separate from the federal investigation that led to her indictment. She was one of nine people charged in an indictment unsealed Wednesday by a federal grand jury that accuses the group of traveling to the capital to block access to the reproductive health center.