Over 2,200 fetal remains found at home of ‘prolific’ US abortion doctor
- Police says there is no evidence to indicate that medical procedures were performed at the doctor’s home, and his family is cooperating with the investigation
More than 2,000 medically preserved fetal remains have been found at the Illinois home of a former Indiana abortion clinic doctor who died.
The Will County Sheriff’s Office said that a lawyer for Dr Ulrich Klopfer’s family contacted the coroner’s office last week about possible fetal remains being found at the home in an unincorporated part of Will County in northeastern Illinois.
The sheriff’s office said authorities found 2,246 preserved fetal remains but there’s no evidence medical procedures were performed at the home, and the doctor’s family is cooperating fully with this investigation,
The coroner’s office took possession of the remains. An investigation is underway.
Klopfer, who died September 3, is considered Indiana’s “most prolific” abortion doctor, with tens of thousands of procedures performed, the South Bend Tribune reported.
His abortion clinic was closed after the state revoked the clinic’s license in 2015.
The Indiana State Department of Health had previously issued complaints against the clinic, accusing it of lacking a registry of patients, policies regarding medical abortion, and a governing body to determine policies.