EXCLUSIVE: FBI Must Inves­ti­gate Biden Coverup Of Abort­ed Babies Found In DC, Law­mak­ers Say

WASHINGTON—Two Repub­li­can con­gress­men are call­ing on FBI Direc­tor Kash Patel to inves­ti­gate “the case of five abort­ed chil­dren” whose deaths were cov­ered up dur­ing Pres­i­dent Joe Biden’s admin­is­tra­tion, The Dai­ly Wire can first report.

Reps. Chip Roy of Texas and Andy Big­gs of Ari­zona argue to Patel in the Tues­day let­ter first obtained by The Dai­ly Wire that, under the Biden admin­is­tra­tion, the FBI “depart­ed from its core pub­lic safe­ty mis­sion, suf­fered from senior lead­er­ship fail­ures, and refused any real trans­paren­cy or account­abil­i­ty for its actions.”

The pre­mie-sized baby bod­ies were dis­cov­ered by pro-life activists Lau­ren Handy and Ter­risa Bukov­inac out­side a Wash­ing­ton, D.C. area abor­tion clin­ic in 2022 short­ly before the Supreme Court over­turned Roe v. Wade, as The Dai­ly Wire has exten­sive­ly report­ed. Though advo­cates and Repub­li­can law­mak­ers have sound­ed the alarm for years about these babies, warn­ing that they appear to have been bru­tal­ly and ille­gal­ly abort­ed in vio­la­tion of fed­er­al law, D.C. and the Biden admin­is­tra­tion took no steps to prop­er­ly inves­ti­gate the mat­ter, instead tar­get­ing the women who recov­ered the bod­ies.

“As Chairs of the Sub­com­mit­tee on the Con­sti­tu­tion and Lim­it­ed Gov­ern­ment and the Sub­com­mit­tee on Crime and Fed­er­al Gov­ern­ment Sur­veil­lance, we 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 con­gress­men wrote.

“As we con­tin­ue to con­duct our inves­ti­ga­tion into the Dis­trict of Columbia’s enforce­ment of the Par­tial-Birth Abor­tion Act and the Born Alive Infants Pro­tec­tion Act, seri­ous ques­tions remain sur­round­ing the deaths of these chil­dren.”

The let­ter specif­i­cal­ly requests that the FBI review the deci­sion not to move for­ward with an inves­ti­ga­tion into the baby bod­ies, as well as the Biden administration’s “appar­ent deci­sion not to enforce the Par­tial-Birth Abor­tion Act and the Born Alive Infants Pro­tec­tion Act.”

“While MPD main­tained that the unborn chil­dren were ‘abort­ed in accor­dance with the law,’ 5 pro-life advo­cates not­ed evi­dence that the chil­dren were vic­tims of par­tial-birth abor­tions,” the law­mak­ers write. “Abort­ing a child through a par­tial-birth abor­tion is a crime under fed­er­al law. The Supreme Court of the Unit­ed States upheld the fed­er­al ban on par­tial-birth abor­tions in 2007.”

The law­mak­ers note that a vio­la­tion of the Par­tial-Birth Abor­tion Ban Act is a “seri­ous accu­sa­tion,” and not one to be “tak­en light­ly.”

“Despite this sig­nif­i­cant claim, both the MPD and the Biden-Har­ris Admin­is­tra­tion chose to ignore any poten­tial evi­dence of a crime for two years,” they write. “The Biden-Har­ris Depart­ment of Jus­tice at one point alleged­ly direct­ed the D.C. Med­ical Exam­in­er to dis­pose of the bod­ies because ‘there [was] no rea­son to keep those babies any­more.’”

Roy and Big­gs empha­sized Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s com­mit­ment to “pro­tect and respect every life—born and unborn,” and argued that med­ical experts have pre­vi­ous­ly alleged that these abort­ed chil­dren “showed signs of being vic­tims of par­tial-birth abor­tions.”

Pro-life activist Lau­ren Handy lis­tens dur­ing a news con­fer­ence on the five babies she found in Wash­ing­ton, DC. (Pho­to by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

“Yet no inde­pen­dent exam­i­na­tion out­side the D.C. Med­ical Examiner’s office has been con­duct­ed,” the law­mak­ers argue. “Based on evi­dence col­lect­ed at the time of recov­ery, includ­ing the dis­turb­ing pho­tos of the chil­dren, all five of these chil­dren appear to have devel­oped well past the point of via­bil­i­ty and like­ly suf­fered severe­ly painful abor­tion pro­ce­dures. How­ev­er, with­out an inde­pen­dent and unbi­ased med­ical exam­i­na­tion, it is not known how each child died.”

“Seri­ous ques­tions remain about the cir­cum­stances of these children’s deaths,” they con­tin­ued. “If par­tial- birth abor­tions were con­duct­ed on these unborn chil­dren, that is a vio­la­tion of fed­er­al law and should be inves­ti­gat­ed accord­ing­ly.”

The law­mak­ers request that Patel and the FBI review the evi­dence relat­ed to the “D.C. Five” by 5:00 p.m., on April 29, and that Patel arrange for “appro­pri­ate FBI offi­cials to pro­vide a staff lev­el brief­ing relat­ed to the FBI’s review and poten­tial inves­ti­ga­tion regard­ing the D.C. Five.”

The call to action is con­se­quen­tial. This is the first time that Repub­li­cans have held pow­er since the baby bod­ies were dis­cov­ered — and an FBI inves­ti­ga­tion may expose that D.C. abor­tion­ist Cesare San­tan­ge­lo has been com­mit­ting grue­some crimes just miles from the White House. The Dai­ly Wire report­ed in April 2022 that pro-life med­ical pro­fes­sion­als and experts esti­mat­ed that the babies were at the end of the 2nd trimester or in the 3rd trimester when they were abort­ed.

(Warn­ing: Graph­ic and dis­turb­ing images described below.)

Pro-life activists, like those with the Pro­gres­sive Anti Abor­tion Upris­ing, believe that San­tan­ge­lo has been allow­ing babies born alive through his botched abor­tions to die in his clin­ic. Their claims stem in part from under­cov­er videos in which Live Action record­ed San­tan­ge­lo dis­cussing how he would allow babies to die if they were acci­den­tal­ly deliv­ered dur­ing abor­tions.

The activists who found the babies told The Dai­ly Wire in 2022 that San­tan­ge­lo has a his­to­ry of “slop­py,” “cheap” abor­tions. They emo­tion­al­ly described to The Dai­ly Wire how they dis­cov­ered the bod­ies, detail­ing open­ing a large buck­et in which “Baby Boy #1” was lying. They named him “Christo­pher X,” and Bukov­inac described him as “a beau­ti­ful 30+ week baby boy with hair on his head,” say­ing that she believes he was most like­ly born alive.

Handy, who was pros­e­cut­ed by the Biden Jus­tice Depart­ment for protest­ing out­side abor­tion clin­ics and jailed until Trump par­doned her in Jan­u­ary, said that the injuries that anoth­er one of the babies has are “con­sis­tent with what we’d expect from a par­tial-birth abor­tion — which is a fed­er­al crime.”

“San­tan­ge­lo has a his­to­ry of being slop­py, fac­ing wrong­ful death law­suits, and ignor­ing the law,” she said.