WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — Pro-life activist Terrisa Bukovinac on Wednesday confronted the notorious late-term abortionist Cesare Santangelo for leaving babies born alive to die, calling on Congress to hold him accountable for these crimes.
“This man has killed thousands of preborn children. Many of them have been born alive and left to die,” Bukovinac exclaimed in front of Santangelo as he walked with assistance from his car to Washington-Surgi Clinic, where he commits late-term abortions.
Santangelo shot to notoriety in 2013 when he was caught on tape by an undercover investigator with Live Action saying “we would not help” a baby if he or she was born alive.
“We are calling on Congress,” continued Bukovinac, as she was filmed by fellow pro-life activist Randall Terry, founder of Operation Rescue. “Congress, I’m asking you please, begging you please, to hold this man to account. He is committing crimes against humanity and it is going completely unchecked.”
“We will get justice for these babies. And you will be held to account for what you have done to them,” she went on. “I held those babies in my hands. I saw the faces of the babies that you murdered.”
Bukovinac was referring to late-term aborted babies from his facility she found in 2022 along with fellow activist Lauren Handy, when the driver of a waste services truck agreed to hand them the bodies of aborted babies from Santangelo’s mill. In the box they were given, they found over 115 unborn children, five of whom were “extremely late term.”
Bukovinac previously explained to LifeSiteNews that they “know from undercover footage that’s been released by Live Action” that the facility’s abortionist, Cesare Santangelo, “does not use feticide when doing abortions,” which “means that the likelihood of a late-term baby being born alive is extremely high.”
She continued, “We knew right away that there was evidence here of federal crimes, like [against] the Born-Alive Infant Protection Act. Also, one of the late-term babies seemed very obviously a victim of partial-birth abortion, and so we were concerned from that moment on [about] preserving this evidence and of attempting to get justice for them, and to hopefully bring accountability to Santangelo.”
They “made arrangements through an attorney to hand them over to the medical examiner to make this determination about whether or not federal crimes had been committed.”
Only a day later, Handy and eight other pro-lifers were arrested for blocking the entrances to the same D.C. abortion facility about two years prior, in an effort to save babies’ lives.
“It definitely seems like a wild coincidence,” Bukovianc told John-Henry Westen at the time. Handy was later sentenced to four years in prison for violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act and “conspiracy against rights.”
Bukovianc noted, “Regrettably, though, the D.C. police has already made a statement saying they don’t believe any crimes have been committed here, that the babies were aborted according to D.C. law, and that they are not pursuing an investigation as to how these babies died, and how we acquired the fetuses.”
Republican lawmakers thereafter wrote to the Biden Department of Justice and Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, urging them to investigate the abortions of the five late-term recovered babies.
In light of the refusal of the D.C. police to investigate potential violations of federal law, the Republican lawmakers wrote in their letter, according to The Daily Wire, that they “demand that a thorough investigation is conducted into the death of each child.” They added that “in order to accomplish such [an] investigation, we request and fully expect the city to preserve all of the children’s remains as evidence and conduct autopsies.”
Bowser and the DOJ never took action to investigate Santangelo’s abortions.
On Wednesday, Bukovinac pointed out that Santangelo had a full-arm cast and questioned who in his office is currently committing abortions.
“Make him testify in front of America as to why and how he kills these babies,” she exhorted, as Santangelo closed elevator doors on his way to his facility.
