Ron DeSantis Signals Support For Woman Who Stole Fetal Remains From D.C. Clinic

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) confirmed help Thursday for 2 anti-abortion extremists who reportedly stole fetal stays from a Washington, D.C., abortion clinic.

Simply earlier than signing a 15-week abortion ban into regulation, the governor applauded the anti-abortion activists who claimed they’d approached and brought 115 fetuses from a driver for a waste companies enterprise exterior the Washington Surgi-Clinic final month.

“We simply noticed this horrible scandal in Washington, D.C. … They discovered all these stays of infants they usually discovered 5 who have been mainly infants, untimely, they’d have been in a position to survive exterior the womb,” DeSantis mentioned on the invoice signing at a central Florida church.

D.C. police had beforehand disputed the extremists’ declare ― repeated by DeSantis ― that the fetal stays have been the scale of “mainly infants.”

The 5 fetuses in query “have been aborted in accordance with D.C. regulation, so we’re not investigating this incident alongside these strains,” Ashan Benedict, the chief assistant chief of police, mentioned at a information convention after the stays have been found. “There doesn’t appear to be something prison in nature proper now about that, besides for the way they received into this home, and so we’ll proceed to take a look at that.”

That didn’t cease DeSantis on Thursday. He continued: “And but, Washington, D.C., is treating that identical to we might deal with the trash from our lunch or one thing like that. It’s actually horrifying to see that that would go on in our nation, however notably in our nation’s capital. So that’s callous, that’s improper. … What we’re doing as we speak, is saying that we’ll not let that occur within the state of Florida.”

The Florida governor was met with a loud spherical of applause from the gang of anti-abortion supporters. He signed an unconstitutional 15-week abortion ban into regulation that makes no exceptions for rape or incest. The abortion restriction is about to enter impact on July 1, weeks and even days after the Supreme Courtroom guidelines in a case that threatens to overturn or intestine Roe v. Wade.

Lauren Useful and Terrisa Bukovinac, the anti-abortion extremists who have been found with fetal stays, alleged {that a} medical waste employee allowed them to grab 115 fetuses from exterior the clinic final month. After allegedly burying 110 of the stays of their yard, Useful and Bukovinac mentioned, they saved the remaining 5 as a result of they seemed “almost full-term” and needed to hunt out a health care provider to verify the fetuses’ gestational ages.