The DC Metropolitan Police Department made the shocking discovery after responding to a tip for “potentially biohazardous material” at a home in southeast DC shortly after noon Thursday. Lauren Handy, a 28-year-old activism director for the Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising anti-abortion group, stayed home, according to WUSA9. He was one of nine people charged in an indictment opened Wednesday by a federal high court that accuses the group of traveling to the capital to block access to a reproductive health center. Murder detectives and forensic services have been seen removing evidence in red biohazard bags and coolers from the home, video from the store shows. Handy told reporters that “people would be shocked to hear” what was stored in refrigerators and said she was waiting for the raid “sooner or later”. Assistant DC Police Officer. Police Chief Ashan M. Benedict said Thursday that the embryos appear to have been legally aborted under DC law. Police responded shortly after noon to a house on the 400 block of 6th Street SE to investigate information about possible biohazard materials in the home. WUSA9The five embryos were legally aborted under DC law. WUSA9Lauren Handy is an activism director for the Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising team. Reuters / Sarah Silbiger “There does not seem to be anything criminal in it – other than how they got into this house,” Benedict said. Benedict said the search of Haddy’s home was separate from the federal investigation that led to the indictment. The five embryos were collected by a medical examiner in Washington and the investigation is ongoing, police said. According to the indictment, Handy had telephoned the clinic pretending to be a prospective patient named “Hazel Jenkins” and had scheduled an appointment in October 2020. As soon as he arrived, eight others were forced into the clinic and began blocking the doors, prosecutors said. Capitol police arrest Handy outside speaker John Boehner’s office to protest a canceled vote in Parliament that would ban abortions after 20 weeks on March 25, 2015. CQ-Roll Call, Inc through Getty ImagesHandy he expected that the raid on the house would take place sooner or later. Facebook / Lauren.handy.52 Five of them were chained to chairs to block the treatment area, while others closed the entrance of the employees to prevent other patients from entering, the indictment states. Another suspect prevented people from entering the waiting room, prosecutors allege. Handy, along with eight others, was charged with conspiracy to commit a crime and violating the Freedom of Access Act or the FACE Act, which prohibits physical harassment, intimidation or interference with a person seeking reproductive health services. With postal cables
