Will Americans see the truth?

The youngest age for a baby to survive preterm birth is 21 weeks and 2 days, at least for now. That baby’s name is Richard Hutchinson, and today he is almost 2 years old.

Meanwhile, the bodies of five babies are now in possession of the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia. Those babies were either aborted or murdered shortly after birth and were potentially at close to 32 weeks of gestation when they died—up to 11 weeks past the date of a baby’s ability to survive outside a mother’s womb.

What is the difference between Richard Hutchinson, who was given lifesaving care in the neonatal intensive care unit, and these babies whose bodies were uncovered at the Washington Surgi-Clinic in Washington, D.C., in October 2021? One baby was wanted and thus offered all the legal protection and medical care necessary to save his life, while the others were not.

A governmental system that forbids the murder of infants but allows abortion is intellectually and morally inconsistent. U.S. law protects babies who are born, but not the unborn, in most cases, regardless of their gestational age or level of development. The only difference between the two murders is the location of the baby—one outside the mother’s womb, the other inside. It’s legal, according to U.S. law, to dismember, decapitate, poison, or slice a child’s throat inside of the mother’s womb. But the same acts would be illegal if the baby is outside the womb—then, you’ll be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

Unless, of course, you are abortionist Cesare Santangelo of the Washington Surgi-Clinic. Santangelo was captured on video talking about what he does when babies are born alive inside his abortion center: “It will expire shortly after birth. … It’s all about how vigorously you do things to help a fetus survive at this point. We would not help it.” Not helping a baby born alive, even after an attempted abortion, directly violates federal law and amounts to criminal infanticide.

The District of Columbia does not protect unborn babies from late-term abortions, but abortion centers in the district are still bound by federal law, which restricts abortion methods and requires care to be given to babies born alive during a failed attempt at an abortion. Based upon the size and nature of the bodies found (one even still inside the amniotic sac), experts suspect the Washington Surgi-Clinic violated the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act and the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act.

But D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department not only refuse to investigate Santangelo or his abortion center but also won’t even order the examination of the dead bodies of the five babies in their custody. This, even though examining “deaths due to criminal abortion” falls first within the statutes and regulations that govern the D.C. chief medical examiner.

On April 5, 23 U.S. senators and representatives sent a letter to Mayor Bowser and Chief of Police Robert J. Contee III demanding that the chief medical examiner conduct a thorough investigation into the death of each child, including an autopsy, as well as to allow an independent, licensed pathologist to confirm the findings.

Instead of meeting those demands, Mayor Bowser completely turned the tables: She said the district would not conduct an autopsy on the bodies but promised to investigate the pro-life activists who obtained the dead bodies and turned them over to the police. Meanwhile, the U.S. Department of Justice used the FBI to raid the homes and arrest the nine pro-life activists, but not Santangelo, nor did authorities close his abortion center, which is likely in violation of federal law.

The Justice Department is failing in its self-professed mission to “ensure fair and impartial administration of justice for all Americans” when it consistently picks whom to seek justice against and whom it will offer to look the other way. Moreover, when our government prioritizes punishing pro-life Americans over investigating or punishing potential murderers of the worst type—those who commit infanticide—we must wonder exactly how just our so-called justice system actually is.

As our nation prepares to receive the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, which could reverse nearly five decades of abortion on demand throughout the country, we continue to see the illogical, inhumane, and evil effects of abortion on our nation. When local and federal officials are willing to close their eyes to potential infanticide and states continue to push for extreme allowances for abortion until and after birth, it’s clear that the moral reasoning of many Americans is deficient, if not downright depraved.

“Even if all of these babies were aborted ‘legally,’ it is without question and crystal clear to see that this practice is neither ethical nor empowering to women,” neonatologist Dr. Kendra Kolb told Live Action News. “This is the American horror story that we call ‘choice’ on full display for all to see.” But will Americans refuse to see it?