The White House hasannounced its support for a federal investigation into the gruesome discoveryof over 2,000 corpses of aborted babies in the home of the recently deceasedabortionist Ulrich Klopfer.

Klopfer said he andhis family fled East Germany when he was a child and immigrated to the U.S. Hewent to medical school for obstetrics and gynecology and decided to become anabortionist. Klopfer performed an estimated 50,000abortions over his career in Indiana in facilities in South Bend, Gary, andFort Wayne. Klopfer’s medical license was suspended by the state licensingboard in 2016 after he admitted to failing to report child sexual abuse andnumerous health code violations were found.

Klopfer, who lived in Will County, Ill., near the Indiana border, died on Sept. 3 at age 75. His family reported to the county coroner’s office that while sifting through Klopfer’s personal property they found “what appeared to be fetal remains and requested that the Will County Coroner’s Office provide proper removal.” The Will County Sheriff’s Office found and removed the remains of 2,246 fetuses from Klopfer’s house. Importantly, the sheriff’s office said the remains appeared to have been transported across state lines from Indiana to Illinois, possibly making them subject to federal jurisdiction.

White House DeputyCommunications Director Judd Deere announced the White House’s support for afederal investigation, saying, “Murdering thousands of innocent babies is onething, but preserving and hoarding their bodies like trophies is a new level ofsickness.” Vice President Mike Pence, former Governor of Indiana, took the newsmore personally:

The horrific discovery of 2,246 fetal remains in abortionist Dr. Klopfer’s Illinois home is appalling & should shock the conscience of every American. While I was Governor of Indiana we took his medical license away & passed a law requiring fetal remains be treated with dignity.

— Vice President Mike Pence (@VP) September 16, 2019

Another Indiana politician, Pete Buttigieg — mayor of South Bend, where Klopfer operated one of his facilities — refused to comment on the news for days until Thursday, when he finally said he found the “news out of Illinois extremely disturbing” but said he “also hope[s] it doesn’t get caught up in politics at a time when women need access to healthcare.”

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