An anti-abortion activist has made the absurd claim Washington DC's electricity is being powered by burning fetuses at a House Judiciary Committee hearing.
Americans United for Life President Catherine Foster said: "Bodies [are] thrown in medical waste bins, and in places like Washington, DC burned to power the lights of the cities’ homes and streets."
The Huff Post reported the woman continued with her outlandish claim by saying, "the next time you turn on the light, think of the incinerators, think of what we’re doing to ourselves so callously and so numbly," she told Congress whilst under oath.
The president of the anti-choice group accused people who support the right to bodily autonomy of being "devasting to the fabric of American democracy," The Huff Post reported.
As of October 2021, according to the US Energy Information Administration, (EIA), nearly 93 percent of the District's power was generated from natural gas, coal and nuclear power plants.
DC Policy Centre debunked the claim by proving the remaining 7 percent of the power used was generated by wind and other renewable energy sources, not burning fetuses.
