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INTERVIEW FROM ALEXANDRIA DETENTION CENTER: Lauren Handy, Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising Director 

A statement from Emily Erin Davis, vice president of communications for SBA Pro-Life America: 

 “The DC 5 babies were victims of violence. The DC 5 babies are the symbols of late-term abortion in America. Once you see the pictures of their faces and brutalized bodies, the images are seared in your mind. These children were at a gestational age where they would’ve felt the excruciating pain of this procedure. While the Biden Administration travels the country touting all-trimester abortions, we have a real-life example and possible crime in their backyard. A true symbol of their late-term abortion platform, that happened just doors from the White House.  

Some serious questions remain about the circumstances of these children’s deaths and the situation demands congressional oversight. Why did the Biden Administration instruct the Medical Examiner they had no use for their bodies, not allowing for any investigation or autopsy?  

We call on Mayor Bowser, the D.C. Police Department, the D.C. Medical Examiner and the Biden Administration to not destroy the bodies of these five children. They deserve an investigation, an autopsy and ultimately, justice.” 

TRANSCRIPT – EXPOSED: ABORTION IN AMERICA 

SERIES: THE DC FIVE 

EPISODE 1: BABIES IN A BOX 

INTERVIEW FROM ALEXANDRIA DETENTION CENTER, LAUREN HANDY 

0:03 – Emily Erin Davis: This week, 35 pro-life groups joined forces to write a letter to Congress addressed to the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson. 

0:15 – Emily Erin Davis: Why did they write him? 

0:18 – Emily Erin Davis: Because despite two years of delays, the Department of Justice and DC Chief of Police have not provided information on any investigation into the DC five. 

0:35 – Emily Erin Davis: And just last week, hopes for any autopsies or investigation were dashed. When reports came through that President Biden’s administration instructed the DC medical examiner that they had no use for the bodies of the DC five. 

0:57 – Emily Erin Davis: So who are the DC Five? To answer that question, we have to talk to the woman who found them. Progressive Anti-abortion Uprising Director, Lauren Handy. 

1:14 – Emily Erin Davis: This is episode one of Exposed: Abortion in America. The DC Five: Babies in a Box. 

1:30 – Emily Erin Davis: Could you just share where you are now and talk about why you’re still fighting for the five?   

1:37 – Lauren Handy: Yeah. Right now, I’m at the Alexandria Detention Center. I’ve been here for the past I think six months now.   

1:44 – Emily Erin Davis: Lauren, can you share with me how, how we got to where we are now with the five? Just take me back to that day. 

1:53 – Lauren Handy: Yes. So I’m a full-time sidewalk counselor. I work as the Director of Activism at the Progressive Anti-abortion Uprising. And every Friday we do normal cyber counseling outside the DC Planned Parenthood, for some reason, it was closed that day. They weren’t performing abortion. So there are 22 abortion facilities on the DC metro line. And so we decided, ok, well, since the Planned Parenthood is closed, we’ll go to another location. 

2:26 – Lauren Handy: So myself and Terrisa Bukovinac, the Founder of PAUU, we went to Washington Surgi Center and they do abortions past 30 weeks for elective reasons, meaning healthy, mother, healthy, parent, healthy baby. Non-medical emergencies reasons. Abortion through these later, later stages of pregnancy. 

2:49 – Lauren Handy: We went there, we went, we had roses with us and you know, passed out resources to these people who are facing these crisis pregnancies. And, when we pulled up to this late term abortion facility, we saw there was a medical waste provider, picking up the medical waste what we assumed of Washington Surgi Center. 

3:16 – Lauren Handy: So we got out of the car and we immediately went up to him, asked him, you know, where are these boxes? You know what’s in these boxes? 

3:23 – Lauren Handy: He didn’t know what was in these boxes and he double checked, they were from Washington Surgi Center. There’s a big sticker on there that said Washington Surgi Center and you know, myself and Terrisa were talking to him. We were like there’s babies in there, there’s dead babies in there. 

3:38 – Lauren Handy: And he said, well, what are you gonna do with this? And I said, a funeral and a burial. And he agreed to it and I took the box and we went back to my apartment, we didn’t realize what we were truly gonna be about to be headed to. 

3:54 – Lauren Handy: And when we opened the box and there’s video of it that has been posted. And you can hear me say it’s just babies, it’s just babies, you know, and that’s when I was first introduced to these perfectly formed human babies. Well, well advanced in their age, mingled bodies ripped the shreds, their skin ripped off their bodies, her one eye open, her skull crushed or in their amniotic sac and like perfectly formed and you see their foot from the outside of the sack and it’s just, it was so haunting and, you know, we spent five days trying to look for, someone to do an autopsy for these children because the wound patterns for the advanced stage. Wound patterns suggest partial birth, abortion being born less alive and we needed to have that autopsy. 

5:00 – Lauren Handy: When we exhausted our options, we realized that we have to call them the DC medical examiner, DC police. And through lawyers, we ourselves arranged for those children to be picked up by the DC medical examiner. We were told that the DC medical examiner was coming to the house and to leave the door unlocked and myself and Terrisa were staying at her apartment because we were not eating or sleeping at my apartment while the children were in my apartment. 

5:29 – Lauren Handy: To be, to be as respectful as possible to the situation that morning. On March 30th, we went there, see if the medical examiner picked up his children like they said they were. But I was arrested out in front of the sidewalk by the FBI. 

5:47 – Lauren Handy: So then the medical examiner came and they took everything. It was very solemn. People were very clearly disturbed. I mean, when you’re seeing fully formed babies, like what you would traditionally think of as a child. 

6:00 – Lauren Handy: It, it, it, it is very disturbing and it’s further shown when you see the picture, things progressed quickly. People got involved, started sending letters, calls for justice and, and very quickly, an international movement around the issue formed. Calls for justice, justice for the five, justice for these children because it was the face of elective all term, late term abortion. The abortion industry wants to paint all-term abortions as tragic cases. But we know that it is less than 1% of all abortions in America and I sidewalk counselor, do sidewalk advocacy outside these places. And it’s people who can’t pay their rent. It’s people who are, who are in intimate kind of violence and here we are. We’re seeing the face of the reality of the abortion industry of what they’re trying to hide and it, it shocked everyone and, but you know, time fades as we’re waiting for justice trying to get people to keep remembering. 

7:11 – Lauren Handy: Keep remembering an initial feeling that initial response of that calls for justice and… 

7:12 – Emily Erin Davis: Lauren, can I ask you something when I was reading the media coverage, the mainstream media coverage of this, what struck me the most was they kept reporting that there were “fetuses in a box” in your house, but they never asked how they got in the box. It’s stunning to me that they didn’t dig into the facts of the case. And it’s stunning to me that the focus was there are these children in a box and no question about how these deceased children are in this box. 

8:03 – Lauren Handy: It was easier to go after me as an individual and face the pictures and face. Like what does it mean, why are these children? Why are these fetal human remains in a box? And so it’s easier to paint me as someone wrong or creepy or a “fetus hoarder” and using like lots of pejorative language, the use of misinformation to try to go after my character when instead of this reality of like we’re talking about grave, grave people and it’s easier to paint me as a villain than face of how the media is complicit. 

8:53 – Lauren Handy: You know, I had a lot of reporters and you know, they went in very negative who trying to disprove what I was saying. And you know, they met me, they talked with me, they saw the pictures and suddenly these pro-abortion news reporters were now pro-life. 

9:15 – Emily Erin Davis: Representative Luna, she had a very stunning hearing in which she had the photos of the Five. In fact, that’s how I first learned about it. And you could have heard a pin drop in that room. What is your message to people in Congress who can advocate for this? 

9:37 – Lauren Handy: Each of us are called to love and be to love the other. Love those on the most marginalized, love those in the margins, the most vulnerable. And you know, it is scary to step out and sacrifice for these Children. I am asking to use your voice to be brave. You have the ability and the power and the influence to try to protect five children so they can be given a proper burial.  

10:13 – Emily Erin Davis: And you know, I hear Lauren, I hear Democrats say that late term abortion like this does not happen, it just doesn’t happen, but we’re confronted with it right now. And it seems to me this would be a really strong moment of bipartisanship to get to the bottom of this, to do the autopsy and to understand what do you think about that? 

10:36 – Lauren Handy: You know, I myself am progressive and, you know, I, I am very sad about how the Democrat Party is beholden to pro-abortion money. And it’s like you follow the money and it goes back to the pro-abortion lobby, Planned Parenthood Federation and it’s just like, shake free of that evil money and stand up for what is good and for what is right, you can do that. We can, it’s not about who’s what political party line is. It is what is good and what is what, how justice needs to prevail, prevail it surpasses party lines throughout your neighbor as yourself surpasses party line. That when we love boldly, hope will follow. 

11:30 – Lauren Handy: And I, I truly have hope that another world is possible and that’s why even at Alexandria Detention Center, I can have joy and I can have peace because I have a radical hope that justice will prevail. 

11:48 – Emily Erin Davis: Last year, Lauren Handy was convicted in a Washington DC court for blocking the entrance to an abortion center. She awaits sentencing, but it’s possible this DC court could sentence her to 11 years in jail with a fine of $350,000.  

12:19 – Emily Erin Davis: Exposed: Abortion in America. The DC five. This is episode one : babies in a box. 

12:25 – Emily Erin Davis: Join us for our next episode as we explore why this is a suspected federal abortion crime. We’ll hear from doctors on why their analysis points to possible infanticide through partial or born alive abortions. What a D and X procedure is and what about the children’s bodily wounds leads them to believe those procedures led to their early deaths. 

12:56 – Time is critical as the bodies of these children, the DC Five could be sent to the incinerator any day if you like us want an investigation and an autopsy done to confirm the truth of the children’s untimely demise. 

13:13 – Please contact Mayor Muriel Bowser and the DC chief of police. Please tell them that you demand justice and to not destroy the bodies of the DC five.