Thread by @LilaGraceRose

BREAKING: Last night 23 members of Congress led by @SenatorLankford & @Jim_Jordan sent a letter to @MayorBowser demanding #JusticeForTheFive including full autopsies, potential referral to the Department of Justice, and dignified burial for the five infants. 1/14

https://twitter.com/LiveAction/status/1511721393725001734

The letter asked seven vital questions of the mayor, each of which were requested to be fully answered by the end of TODAY. Here are the questions in their entirety. Understanding these answers will be the beginning of achieving justice and peace. 2/14

Question 1: As you are aware partial-birth abortion is illegal and punishable by fine, imprisonment or both. How did the Metropolitan Police reach the conclusion while recovering the remains of each child that all of the children died as the result of a legal abortion? 3/14

Question 2: In order to ensure that no child was subjected to a partial birth abortion and that no child was born alive and left to die, will you commit to conducting a thorough investigation of the death of each child? 4/14

Question 3: As part of such investigation, will you commit to ensuring the preservation of each child’s remains for appropriate examination during the investigation? 5/14

Question 4: Will you direct the Chief Medical Examiner to perform an autopsy on each child to determine the method and cause of death in accordance with § 5–1405 of D.C. Code? 6/14

Question 5: Will you direct a subsequent autopsy to be completed by an independent, licensed pathologist to confirm the findings of the Chief Medical Examiner? 7/14

Question 6: If an autopsy suggests any of the children were victims of criminal activity, will you immediately refer the evidence to both the Department of Justice and the Attorney General for the District of Columbia for criminal prosecution? 8/14

Question 7: Will you commit to properly and respectfully burying each child? 9/14

We MUST get answers to these questions immediately. Remember, the only medical professionals who have commented on this case are doctors who saw the pictures and think that these children may have been subject to illegal partial-birth abortion or born alive and then killed 10/14

Shame on every member of media & government who refuse to address this atrocity. If photos of children mangled as this surfaced from a foreign war, it would lead the news @JoeBiden @SpeakerPelosi @SenSchumer @MayorBowser @FoxNews @CNN
PAY ATTENTION 11/14 liveaction.org/news/infant-bo…

Thank you to every member who signed this important letter including @SenatorLankford @Jim_Jordan @SenThomTillis @MikeCrapo @SenatorRisch @SenMikeLee @SenatorBraun @JohnBoozman @RogerMarshallMD @SenatorWicker @JimInhofe
@MarshaSays @SteveDaines @HawleyMO @JerryMoran 12/14

@CynthiaMLummis @SenSasse @SenTedCruz @SenJoniErnst @RepHartzler @RepDLesko
@RepRalphNorman EVERY member of Congress should get involved to ensure that the federal District which they oversee protects children from illegal partial-birth abortion and from infanticide. 13/14

Do your part to achieve #JusticeForTheFive by calling the mayor's office at [phone] and demanding a full investigation into the deaths of these children. 14/14