Woman Who Hoarded Five Fetuses Pleads Not Guilty

The Washington Post reports:

An antiabortion activist who had five fetuses removed from her home last week by police pleaded not guilty Monday to federal civil rights violations.

Lauren Handy, 28, was one of nine people indicted Wednesday for allegedly violating the federal Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act in 2020. That’s when the group used chain and rope in a blockade incident at the Washington Surgi-Clinic, an abortion clinic in Foggy Bottom.

Officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive case that remains under investigation said detectives have not conclusively pinned down the origin of the fetuses.

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Antiabortion activist who kept 5 fetuses pleads not guilty in D.C. case https://t.co/tIhRdfY4hD

— Post Local (@postlocal) April 4, 2022

When I asked anti-abortion activist Lauren Handy what homicide detectives pulled out of her house Wednesday, she only said, “people will freak out when they hear.” @DCPoliceDept now says it found 5 fetuses. @wusa9 pic.twitter.com/9Uvm7JY9dQ

— Nathan Baca (@NathanBacaTV) March 31, 2022