Ulrich Klopfer body count shows the need for laws regulating abortionists

Published October 29, 2019 4:00am ET



The need for limits on abortion and how it is handled by those who make a living from it will be front and center in the coming months as the Supreme Court has picked up a case out of Louisiana. But for a picture worth 2,246 words on why abortion limits are long overdue, consider the ugly surprise that the heirs of now-deceased abortionist Ulrich George Klopfer found when the preserved bodies of more than 2,000 aborted infants were discovered in his Illinois garage and in his car.

Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill recently discussed the next steps in respectfully handling the preserved bodies of these aborted babies, some of them now more than two decades old, as well as addressing thousands of abandoned patient records that were discovered when officials investigated other Klopfer properties, looking to see if other bodies had been left behind. Klopfer had moved the bodies of the infants in more than 70 boxes from Indiana to his home in Illinois.

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