Associated Press

JOLIET, Ill. – More than 2,200 medically preserved fetal remains have been found at the Illinois home of a former Indiana abortion clinic doctor who died last week.

The Will County Sheriff's Office said in a news release that an attorney for Dr. Ulrich Klopfer's family contacted the coroner's office Thursday about possible fetal remains found at the home in an unincorporated part of Will County in northeastern Illinois.

The sheriff's office said that authorities found 2,246 preserved fetal remains but that there was no evidence medical procedures were performed at the home.

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The coroner's office took possession of the remains. An investigation is underway.

Klopfer, who died Sept. 3, was a longtime doctor at an abortion clinic in South Bend, Indiana. It closed after the state revoked his license in 2015. The Indiana State Department of Health had issued complaints against the clinic, accusing it of lacking a registry of patients, policies regarding medical abortion and a governing body to determine policies. The agency also accused the clinic of failing to document that patients get state-required education at least 18 hours before an abortion.