Jeanine Pirro by Gage Skidmore
A coalition of nine prominent pro-life organizations is calling on interim US Attorney Jeanine Pirro to investigate the suspected infanticide of five late-term aborted babies discovered at a Washington, D.C., abortion facility.
In a letter sent Tuesday, the coalition — led by Advancing American Freedom and co-signed by CatholicVote — said that “the Biden Administration worked to sweep the allegations under the rug and silence the individuals involved by prosecuting them.”
The deceased babies, known as the “D.C. Five,” were recovered in 2022 by members of Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising (PAAU) from a D.C. facility operated by late-term abortionist Cesare Santangelo. The pro-life groups allege that the babies’ deaths violated both the Partial-Birth Abortion Act and the Born-Alive Infant Protection Act.
Instead of launching a federal investigation, the Biden administration targeted the pro-life activists, sentencing some to up to 11 years in prison under the controversial Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act.
PAAU Director of Activism Lauren Handy, a Catholic, was sentenced to 57 months in federal prison last May, while nine other pro-life advocates faced similar sentences.
The letter also adds that “President Biden’s Department of Justice allegedly ordered the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department to incinerate the evidence,” citing a Daily Signal exclusive.
“Thankfully, Members of Congress took shrewd steps to protect the evidence through preservation of evidence requests,” the coalition continued.
At the start of his second term, President Donald Trump pardoned Handy and 22 other pro-life activists, framing the move as a correction of the Biden administration’s unfair prosecution of pro-lifers.
“They should not have been prosecuted,” Trump said several times during the signing. “Many of them are elderly… This is a great honor to sign.”
CatholicVote Director of Government Affairs Tom McClusky praised the decision Wednesday, saying, “Of all the great things President Trump has done since being re-elected, freeing the pro-lifers who were wrongfully persecuted and challenged is at the top.”
As one of the cosigners of the May 27 letter, McClusky added, “What happened in DC was atrocious; a group of pro-lifers exposed the illegal activities of a DC abortion facility, and the DC government instead protected the criminals and attacked the pro-lifers. It is well past time that the abortion facility is investigated for its crimes and that they are brought to justice.”
The letter builds upon a request made by Reps. Chip Roy, R-Texas, and Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., last month, pressing the FBI to investigate.
“[W]e remain concerned about the Biden-Harris Administration’s refusal to investigate the circumstances of the case of five aborted children, also known as the D.C. Five, whose remains were allegedly discovered at the Washington Surgi-Clinic in March 2022 by a pro-life advocacy group,” the legislators’ said in a letter to the FBI.
Concluding their letter, the pro-life groups called on Pirro to act decisively: “As the Interim United States Attorney for Washington, D.C., it is your responsibility to follow the facts where they may lead and enforce federal law to protect those most vulnerable in our nation’s capital: the unborn.”
The letter was also co-signed by Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, Students for Life of America, Family Research Council, Live Action, Concerned Women for America, Human Coalition, and the American Family Association.
