In 2019, the death of abortionist Ulrich Klopfer revealed a horrific secret. For years, Klopfer had been saving and cataloging the bodies of babies he had killed in abortion. Klopfer’s family discovered thousands of bodies hidden in boxes stacked in his garage and called authorities. The investigation revealed a total of 2,246 baby bodies. Days later, more bodies were found in an old Mercedes that belonged to Klopfer bringing the total number of bodies to 2,411.
After 16 months, the investigation was closed without charges or answers. A local news station, CBS 2, submitted a Freedom of Information Act request to obtain photos of the boxes in which the bodies of so many babies were held for years. The never-before-seen images are haunting. The remains of innocent children slaughtered in the womb were left to decay in cardboard boxes, Styrofoam coolers, and other bins.
CBS 2 reports, “Among the normal garage staples of the recently deceased Dr. Ulrich Klopfer of recycle bins, tires and ladders, were boxes. Boxes behind luggage as high as the windows. Boxes stacked amongst buckets and tools up to the ceiling. Some were wilting and rotting. All of them numbered and cataloged. All of them containing fetal remains: 2,246 in all.”
“In the 31 years I’ve been in this job, I’ve never seen anything like this. Ever,” said Sheriff Mike Kelley, speaking at a press conference. He added, “Hundreds and hundreds of boxes,” said Kelley. “We had to go through to make sure there were no more fetal remains.”
According to the news report, 50 people worked together to go through the mountain of boxes and investigate the scene.
“Probably, one of the most unusual cases in our careers,” was the way the former Will County Coroner Patrick O’Neil described the experience.
Although the anti-Life media have painted Klopfer as an outlier, the reality is that the question of what to do with the bodies is one that perennially plagues the abortion industry. As Texas Right to Life previously reported:
…many abortion businesses struggle to manage the piling carnage of abortion. Finding a reliable way to dispose of the mutilated is not easy, and abortion mills have been caught dumping babies in landfills, putting the bodies of aborted babies down garbage disposals, and stockpiling freezers full of dead bodies without a plan of how to bury or cremate the remains. Properly burying the remains cuts into the profits of the abortion business, and many medical waste companies refuse to work with abortion mills.
We will never know why Klopfer kept the bodies of so many babies on his property, but knowing how the abortion industry operates, Klopfer is not an outlier.
The basic fact revealed in the horrific scenes of Klopfer’s garage and old car is that in every abortion, a child with a body and beating heart is killed. There is no escaping the reality of the bodies and the human Life represented by those bodies.
While people were rightly horrified by the discovery of the more than 2,000 babies’ bodies after Klopfer’s death, people estimate that over his career Klopfer killed as many as 50,000 preborn babies through abortion.
The 2,411 bodies were buried in February of last year. Sadly, the tens of thousands of other victims will never be laid to rest in the dignified manner they deserve. Even more tragically, legal elective abortion has rendered the killing of such innocent preborn Life a fact of our culture. Although unjust and unsound laws have allowed the killing of innocent human Life, we cannot escape the clear humanity of these children. Their bodies are the proof that these are people with the Right to Life.