Trump Pardons Anti-Abortion Activist Who Blockaded Clinic And Had Fetuses In Her Home

LOADING ERROR LOADING An anti-abortion leader who made headlines in 2022 after Washington, D.C., authorities discovered fetal remains inside her apartment was one of several activists pardoned by President Donald Trump on Thursday. She addressed the police findings in an April press conference, saying that a medical waste worker had allowed her and Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising founder Terrisa Bukovinac to seize 115 fetuses from a medical waste collector. She said she believed that 110 of the fetuses were aborted during the first trimester of pregnancy, and that the five fetal remains police found were “late-term” or “nearly full-term.” The medical waste company, Curtis Bay Medical Services, denied the women’s account in a statement to The New York Times, saying the driver delivered all of the packages to an incineration facility. Handy’s pardon comes days after attorneys for the Thomas More Society, a conservative Catholic legal group, submitted a formal request to the Trump administration earlier this month to pardon 21 “peaceful pro-life Americans.” In a statement posted on their website following the pardon, Peter Breen, the organization’s vice president and head of litigation, urged Congress to repeal the FACE Act.