It’s been three years since pro-life activists discovered the bodies of over 100 aborted children in a medical waste box headed to an energy plant to be burned as fuel. Among them were five babies who had been aborted so late in pregnancy that experts believed they could have survived had they been born alive.
While the younger babies were given a proper burial, the activists attempted to bring justice to all of them, but especially the five older children. D.C. police did nothing other than begin rounding up pro-life activists. Since that day in March 2022, countless innocent babies have met their deaths in that same Washington, D.C., abortion business — but it remains unknown what became of their broken bodies.
Pro-life activists worked to get “Justice for the Five” babies — justice long delayed. The activists named the five babies and respected them. And on March 25, they remembered them.
WARNING: Disturbing images of abortion victims.
“Today marks 3 years since two anti-abortion activists discovered a box of 115 aborted babies in a box outside the Washington Surgi Abortion Center,” wrote Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust on Instagram. The group noted that after burying the 110 first-trimester babies, the activists attempted to have an investigation carried out into the deaths of the five older babies.
“The DC Metropolitan Police arrived at the apartment to pick up the remains,” wrote the organization. “The babies were taken to the Medical Examiner’s Office and since then no [autopsies] have been done and no investigation has been conducted. We continue to demand Justice for the Five!!”
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Babies Holly, Harriet, Christopher X, Angel, and Phoenix were ignored, despite the questions that loomed around their deaths. Killing them was completely legal as long as they were inside the womb, but there were questions raised that at least one of them may have died after that point. Yet, the case was buried and the investigation was never initiated.
Baby Holly was dismembered during the D&E abortion carried out to end her young life. Her body was torn in half and she was decapitated in the name of ‘freedom.’ Holly was named in honor of the late Holly O’Donnell, a former tissue procurement specialist who came forward to expose Planned Parenthood and others for participating in the trafficking of the body parts of aborted children.
Baby Holly was dismembered by a D&E abortion in a Washington DC abortion facility. Photo courtesy of Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising.
Baby Harriet was discovered nearly intact with puncture wounds at the back of her neck. Her skull was collapsed, leading experts to raise alarms that she may have been killed by the federally banned D&X abortion procedure commonly called “partial-birth abortion.”
During this procedure, a baby is brought into the breech position and mostly delivered — up to the base of her skull. At that point, she dies a horrific death when the abortionist uses scissors to cut a hole below the base of her skull and then suctions out her brain.
Baby Harriet found in medical waste bin outside DC abortion facility. Photo courtesy of Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising.
Terrisa Bukovinac, founder and executive director of Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising, found the bodies with activist Lauren Handy. Bukovinac called the discovery of Christopher X “the most devastating and soul-crushing experience of our lives.” Christopher’s body was intact; he was potentially killed by lethal injection or may have been born alive during an abortion attempt and then left to die.
Christopher was found in a medical waste box outside a DC abortion facility.
Like Holly, Baby Angel was dismembered in a D&E abortion. He had been tortured to death with his arms and legs torn off in a violent and inhuman act at some point between 14 and 22 weeks of pregnancy.
Baby Angel was found in a medical waste bin. Experts believe he was possibly exsanguinated and dismembered alive.
Baby Phoenix was born ‘en caul,’ which means he or she was still in the amniotic sac. It is possible that Phoenix was born alive and left to die, but it is still unknown, because authorities refused to investigate.
“When we think of a phoenix, we think about rising from the ashes. We know that Phoenix’s life mattered, and their story will influence a culture of life where children like them will no longer be brutalized,” said Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising.
Baby Phoenix was found still in the amniotic sac in a medical waste bin outside a DC abortion business. Photo courtesy of Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising.
Though Roe v. Wade was overturned just three months after the babies were discovered, D.C. still has no restrictions on abortion. Induced abortion — the direct and intentional killing of children in the womb — remains legal at any time for any reason through all 40 weeks of pregnancy in D.C. Women at the Washington Surgi-Clinic abortion facility are even warned that they may give birth to living babies in their hotel rooms during their two to three-day abortion procedures.
Nothing can undo the horror done to these five children and the 110 first-trimester babies killed alongside them in that facility. But in their honor, more work must be done to end abortion in the United States.
