CV NEWS FEED // Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) recently called on Washington, D.C. officials to uphold their investigative obligations and preserve the bodies of the five aborted children who were discovered outside an abortion clinic two years ago.
According to a February 16 press release, Cruz sent this request through a letter to D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, Chief Medical Examiner Francisco J. Diaz, MD, and Metropolitan Police Department Chief Pamela A. Smith.
Two years ago, pro-life activists discovered the bodies of five infants outside of an abortion clinic in Washington, D.C. Reports in early February of 2024 indicated that the D.C. Medical Examiner’s office intended to discard the infants’ remains because there was reportedly “no further use” of them in an investigation of the potentially-illegal abortions.
On February 6, 2024, CatholicVote signed a letter with other pro-life groups, calling “on House Republican leadership to put an end to the reported discarding of aborted babies’ body parts in Washington D.C.”
In his recent letter, Cruz emphasized the recipients’ responsibility and “obligations to preserve evidence for future Congressional oversight hearings.” He highlighted that this letter is his “second and final preservation demand.”
He continued:
Recent news indicates that the Department of Justice reportedly advised the D.C. Chief Medical Examiner to dispose of the remains of five aborted preemie-sized babies, as disclosed by attorney Martin Cannon, who is representing pro-life activists currently being prosecuted by the Department of Justice.
“This news comes almost two years after Lauren Handy and her colleague Terrisa Bukovinac made a chilling discovery outside a Foggy Bottom-based abortion facility known as Washington Surgi-Clinic,” Cruz wrote,
which is operated by Dr. Cesare Santangelo, an abortionist who is known for conducting late-term abortions. There, these two pro-life activists encountered the mutilated bodies of five preemie-sized aborted babies, babies that, given their size and maturity, might very well have been aborted in violation of federal law.
Accordingly, this evidence warrants an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the deaths of the unusually-mature fetal remains, particularly regarding whether ‘the Five’ were born alive and left to die, subjected to partial-birth abortion procedures, or were otherwise murdered following botched abortion attempts.
Cruz criticized the D.C. police for providing “no meaningful progress or updates in over sixteen months” since the initial investigation began.
“Despite the grotesque evidence of potentially illegal abortion procedures, the District of Columbia and Department of Justice authorities have consistently stonewalled inquiries into the deaths of the five aborted babies,” Cruz wrote.
He also criticized the D.C. mayor’s office for repeated refusal to comment on the case, and the Medical Examiner’s Office for the “concrete plans to destroy all evidence before justice can be achieved.”
“To do so,” Cruz wrote, “would deny these five innocent victims justice and assume the cause and nature of these children’s deaths without conducting any investigation, without performing any autopsies, and without even affording these children a proper, respectful burial.”
Cruz is currently a Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on the Constitution, United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary.
In his letter, Cruz added that after the November elections it is “highly likely” that “control of the Senate will shift to the Republican Party.”
Cruz noted that in this case, when he becomes the Chairman of the Subcommittee on the Constitution, he “will schedule hearings on likely violations, like those at issue with these five children, of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 and the Born Alive Infants Protection Act.”
“These hearings will also no doubt scrutinize the behavior of those who obstructed Senate investigatory efforts by willfully destroying evidence despite not one, but two, demands to preserve evidence,” he concluded:
Should the D.C. Medical Examiner’s office decide not to conduct timely autopsies, or preserve the bodies of these babies for outside examination, the Senate Judiciary Committee will have no choice but to expand this issue into a full hearing featuring the Department of Justice and the Office of the D.C. Medical Examiner as witnesses before the American public.
