Posted on 09/10/2019 10:54:33 PM PDT by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Planned Parenthood Harvested Organs of Babies Born Alive After Abortion, Court May Hide That Evidence
Undercover journalist David Daleiden and his lawyers are juggling two separate cases this week that attack him for exposing Planned Parenthood’s aborted baby body parts trade.
One is a criminal trial that began with former pro-abortion California Attorney General Kamala Harris. A preliminary hearing in the case began last week with a witness for the abortion industry admitting that the undercover videos were “not altered.”
The second, a civil lawsuit filed by Planned Parenthood, moved forward with a pre-trial conference Monday with U.S. District Judge William Orrick, Courthouse News reports.
The civil lawsuit accuses Daleiden, Sandra Merritt and Albin Rhomberg of the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) of damaging Planned Parenthood’s reputation through their investigation. The abortion chain also claims it had to increase security because of threats and violence after CMP released the undercover videos. However, Orrick dismissed most of Planned Parenthood’s security claims in July.
On Monday, attorney Charles LiMandri, who represents CMP, told Orrick that he plans to present evidence of babies being born alive in abortion facilities and of their organs being harvested and sold for a profit to researchers, according to Courthouse News.
“If Planned Parenthood was violating the law with regard to the four affiliates, that shows there was a profit motive for why babies would be born alive,” LiMandri said, arguing for the inclusion of the evidence.
Data from state health departments and the Centers for Disease Control prove that babies do survive abortions. Whether LiMandri’s argument will succeed in convincing the judge, however, is uncertain.
Here’s more from the report:
Orrick said he will likely exclude that evidence as irrelevant.
“There’s no evidence I’ve seen so far that babies were born alive at Planned Parenthood facilities,” he said.
“The motive of the project is not as important – or is not important at all – except for what was actually done. And whether the strategy that was taken, whether it was for a great reason or not, is not relevant. It is really more – were the defendants allowed to do the things they actually did,” he added.
LiMandri persisted, arguing that experts would be able to infer that this was the case as biomedical research facilities received fetal hearts from Planned Parenthood affiliates.
“I’m not sure experts can draw inferences, and there’s not actual evidence of a baby being born alive during an abortion procedure,” Orrick said.
But the judge said he would not stop LiMandri from putting on a defense.
The civil trial is scheduled to begin Oct. 2 with jury selection, and continue through Nov. 8 in California, the report states.
Planned Parenthood initially sought more than $20 million in damages, but Orrick ruled against most of the abortion chain’s claims. Now, the alleged damages sought by the lawsuit amount to less than $100,000.
According to a CMP statement to LifeNews, Orrick’s ruling in July “affirms that citizen journalists exercising their First Amendment rights to speak and publish cannot be held liable for any bad actions taken by others in the free marketplace of ideas, absent a clear showing of defamation or intent to incite imminent lawless action. Planned Parenthood could provide no evidence or testimony in the case to back up either accusation, and so a lawsuit that was once an avalanche of charges has been reduced to essentially a trespassing dispute.”
Daleiden has been defending himself in court for years after he exposed gruesome baby body parts harvesting practices at Planned Parenthood in 2015. Many of the charges against him have been dropped, but the California cases continue.
The Center for Medical Progress investigation exposed numerous atrocities inside Planned Parenthood abortion facilities across the U.S. Its findings prompted investigations by the U.S. House and Senate, as well as a number of states.
The committees concluded by recommending that the Department of Justice investigate Planned Parenthood. Both said they found strong evidence that the abortion chain broke the law. The Department of Justice is investigating.
Planned Parenthood repeatedly has denied all allegations of wrong-doing, and many news outlets now parrot its talking points that the undercover videos were deceptively edited or debunked, even though that is not true. An independent forensics investigation verified that the videos were authentic, and witnesses from the abortion industry have been forced to admit under sworn testimony that they were “not altered.”
Some undercover videos show how Planned Parenthood employees callously and flippantly negotiated the price of tiny baby hearts, lungs, livers and brains. Other evidence indicates the abortion giant may have broken HIPAA patient privacy laws.
The Nazis are still butchering babies for profit in USA. Still!!! WTH?
Oh, and they may have violated HIPPA.
How Kamala Harris and PPFA, PP Global and PPIF reacted to the publishing of the damning evidence, should be the millstone we hang around their necks as they’re tossed into the waters of their public, political and/or professional futures. Excluding Harris, they are a 501 (c) (3) and should lose that status.
Government sanctioned, incredible! How is this any different than dr mengele
It is abnormal and 100% against human nature to do this! Why do these people hate babies? why do they worship abortion?
Planned Parenthood = Childrens’ Genocide
Special prices for women, Blacks and the poor (as nutty Joe would say)
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