Lost or Sold? Aborted Babies Have Gone Missing and Laurent Delli-Bovi is Right in the Middle of It 

By Sarah Neely

Boston, MA — Abortionist Laurent Delli-Bovi, the same abortionist who once studied the brains of aborted babies collected without the mother’s consent, is now embroiled in a lawsuit surrounding the “misplacement” of a baby’s aborted body requested for burial by the parents. 

According to a lawsuit filed earlier this year, Kelly and David Omu made the regretful decision to abort their baby in 2022 after being told that their child would have “severe, life-limiting disabilities if she were delivered to term and survived outside of the womb.”

Delli-Bovi was their OB/GYN at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), a known abortion clinic contained within Mass General Brigham Hospital. According to the lawsuit, after consulting with Delli-Bovi and “other healthcare providers,” the parents tragically chose to kill their child.

“It’s no surprise that Delli-Bovi – an abortionist who participated in dissecting the brains of babies aborted for being diagnosed with down syndrome – would encourage a couple to abort a child that might have disabilities,” says Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue. “Delli-Bovi is the last person I would want consulting in that situation. She has no respect for human life, evidenced by her personal involvement with collecting fetal tissue without consent.”

Delli-Bovi Dissecting Brains Without Consent

In 2011, Delli-Bovi co-authored a paper that studied the brains of 22 aborted babies, aged 14-22 weeks, and explored why those with Down syndrome experience mental retardation and early onset of Alzheimer’s Disease. The study was funded with public money from the National Institutes of Health.

Of the 22 brains of aborted babies used for experimentation, none of the mothers consented to the donation of their child’s brain. The study stated that the brains of these 22 babies were considered “discarded tissue,” therefore no consent from the mothers was ever obtained.

The study also cataloged how soon the brains were dissected after the abortion, all within 2-4 hours after the baby’s death. This means that the brains were rushed to researchers who were standing by and had likely been notified that the brains were going to be available.

“And who better to collect all that brain tissue than Delli-Bovi, an abortionist with her own clinic, located in a state that is radically pro-abortion and treats abortionists as a privileged class of doctors who are above the law,” says Newman.

In the shocking videos released by Center for Medical Progress in 2015, detailing the gruesome criminal enterprise of selling aborted babies’ bodies in the abortion industry, Deborah Nucatola, a high-ranking abortionist within Planned Parenthood, was caught on video casually explaining how abortionists intentionally change the abortion procedure to obtain fully intact heads and brains – the more intact, the more lucrative. 

Where is Baby Mariposa?

Despite BWH performing abortions in the first and second trimester, the lawsuit alleges that Kelly and David Omu traveled to “a women’s facility in Brookline, Massachusetts” – undoubtedly Women’s Health Services, founded by Delli-Bovi and willing to commit abortions up to 24 weeks. 

Due to the baby’s gestational age of 18 and a half weeks, the procedure would take two days. The lawsuit does not specify what type of abortion Kelly Omu underwent, however, the website for Women’s Health Services only lists one type of abortion for a baby at 18 weeks: Dilation and Evacuation. During a D&E, cervical dilators would have been inserted on day one. On day two, the dilators would have been removed and Kelly Omu’s baby would have been torn from the uterus, piece by piece, using suction and special tongs with teeth that can grab onto hands, legs or other body parts. 

Kelly and David Omu had already named their child Mariposa, and despite choosing to end her life unnaturally with a brutal procedure, they still requested receiving her “remains” after the abortion in order to give her a burial.

“It’s devastating to see two parents recognize the need to treat their baby’s body with dignity, but only after they’ve chosen to ignore her natural right to life and deny her whatever short time on this earth she might have had,” says Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue. “How different might their memories of this precious baby be today if they had sought care at a life-affirming hospital willing to treat Mariposa with dignity from the moment of conception until the moment of natural death?”

After the abortion, Mariposa’s body was supposedly sent to the pathology department at BWH, which had been informed which funeral home to contact once the testing was done. The Omus heard nothing for six weeks, then, suddenly, the results for Mariposa’s genetic testing showed up in Kelly Omu’s online portal. However, these results said testing had been completed a month previous. Confused, Omu first contacted the funeral home which, in turn, contacted BWH. What followed was a flurry of calls and emails between the parents, BWH, and the funeral home. No one could find Mariposa’s remains. 

Eventually, Delli-Bovi, the person ultimately responsible for ensuring her patient’s wishes were respected, offered this hollow sympathy in an email (not even a phone call): “I know Brigham Pathology is taking steps to prevent this from happening again.” 

Shortly after that, the pathologist who supposedly performed the genetic testing on Mariposa finally contacted the Omus and told them their daughter’s body had been “misplaced.” No more specific information was ever given and Baby Mariposa was never found. 

Even more alarming, Baby Mariposa is not the first aborted baby to be “misplaced” by the hospital-based abortion clinic where Delli-Bovi is employed. 

Other Aborted Babies Are Missing

In an even darker twist, the Omus’ lawsuit details the disappearance of three other aborted babies from August 2020 until early 2022. In each case, genetic testing or an autopsy was allegedly done, and the parents communicated they would assume responsibility of their baby’s remains for cremation or burial:

Baby Oliver Bothe – Aborted at 22-weeks (induction abortion) at BWH in November 2020. Testing predicted Baby Oliver, like Baby Mariposa, would have “severe, life-limiting disability.” By December 7, BWH could not locate Baby Oliver’s body. Eventually, BWH claimed that because it had been more than 14 days, the hospital had followed policy and made “other arrangements,” which were never specified. The parents claimed in their lawsuit that BWH had told them the morgue would keep Baby Oliver up to six months. Baby Oliver is still missing. 

Baby Katherine Noel – Aborted in the fifth month of pregnancy (D&E) at BWH in December 2020. Baby Katherine was diagnosed with “hypoplastic left heart syndrome” and her parents were told she would not survive outside the uterus. The parents alleged in their lawsuit that when they contacted BWH weeks later, the BWH employee unexpectedly told them, “I don’t know if we can track that down, it’s usually two weeks and then no recourse.” 

When the parents contacted a social worker at BWH to help resolve the problem, she simply said, “That’s a story I’ve heard multiple times before. This isn’t an isolated incident.” Baby Katherine is still missing. 

Baby Kaylee Emery – Aborted at 24-weeks (induction abortion) at BWH in March 2021. Testing revealed a spot on Baby Kaylee’s brain. In the days that followed, Baby Kaylee was diagnosed with severe brain abnormalities. In this case, hospital staff at BWH requested permission to perform an autopsy and genetic testing on Baby Kaylee to “research the ‘rare disease’” that the hospital told the parents their child suffered from. 

The parents not only never received any documentation of the autopsy, but their lawsuit alleged the BWH social worker told them she would “take care of everything,” including contacting the funeral home they’d chosen. One week after the abortion, the parents contacted BWH with no response. In mid-April, after more than ten phone calls, the parents received a call from a “Dr. Reimers” informing them that BWH did not have Baby Kaylee’s remains because it had been more than 14 days, even though the parents had originally contacted BWH after just seven days. Baby Kaylee is still missing. 

Newman states, “This is an abortion clinic that employs at least one abortionist we already know is involved with ‘research’ on aborted babies, and who has likely provided tissue for experiments herself. This is also a clinic that requested permission to perform an autopsy on an aborted baby diagnosed with a rare disease and then ‘lost’ the body in a matter of days.

“There are some serious red flags here. Are we to believe that all four of these disappearances were due to incompetence, or is this abortion clinic collecting and selling fetal tissue out the back door? Delli-Bovi and her lackeys say these bodies were lost, misplaced, discarded. Were they really lost, or were they quietly sold? If we know anything about the abortion industry, it’s that no deal is too dirty – they’d sell baby body parts on Facebook Market if they thought they could get away with it. Out the back door of a morgue would be business as usual.”

This report may be republished with inclusion of the following acknowledgement: “This article was originally published by Operation Rescue, a leading pro-life, Christian activist organization dedicated to exposing abortion abuses, demanding enforcement, saving innocent lives, and building an abortion-free America. The author, Sarah Neely, is Chief Operating Officer for Operation Rescue.”