JOLIET, Ill. (AP) – A northern Indiana prosecutor said Thursday that authorities have found no fetal remains at a shuttered abortion clinic once operated by a late abortion doctor whose Illinois property was found to contain more than 2,200 medically preserved fetal remains.
St. Joseph County Prosecutor Ken Cotter said police, prosecutors and members of the Indiana attorney general’s office served a search warrant Thursday morning at the former South Bend abortion clinic where Dr. Ulrich Klopfer had performed abortions.
He said that boxes of medical records were found inside, but that “based on what we have seen so far there are no fetal remains here.”
“At this point I can tell you that there are no fetal remains here. They’re still investigating, they’re still looking, but there does not appear to be any fetal remains here,” Cotter said during a news conference outside the building.
He made his announcement shortly before officials in Illinois who are investigating the discovery of the fetal remains at Klopfer’s home were set to speak at a news conference to discuss the case.