Five of those babies that appear to be of late-term gestation are now in the possession of Washington, D.C. Metro Police, which retrieved the remains Friday from members of Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising (PAAU).

Along with other pro-life groups, PAAU has called on the D.C. Medical Examiner to autopsy the babies’ remains to determine their manner of death in order to assess whether they died after being born, in possible violation of federal laws.

Terrisa Bukovinac, PAAU’s founder, described the processing of opening the box and examining its contents as a tearful, “completely soul-crushing experience.” She said the box was full of small turquoise-colored plastic containers, each with a small, first-trimester fetus in it, 110 in total.

There was also an inner plastic bag with five larger plastic containers. In the largest one, the aborted baby, whom the activists named Christopher X, was “whole” and appeared to be large enough to be born alive, in the women’s view.

“We often carry around a fetal model that is 22 weeks … this baby was huge,” Bukovinac recalled.