Posted on 08/22/2015 9:25:08 AM PDT by John Semmens
Planned Parenthood's executive vice president Dawn Laguens said the organization is weighing whether to sue the Center for Medical Progress, the group behind the release of videos showing that Planned Parenthood is engaged in murdering, dismembering, and selling aborted babies.
"Since these videos were made secretly without Planned Parenthood's explicit consent they constitute an egregious invasion of privacy," Laguens maintained. "Invasion of privacy is a crime. That makes the videos the 'fruit from the poisoned tree' and inadmissible as evidence against Planned Parenthood for any alleged crimes depicted in the videos."
Laguens also contested the idea that there are any grounds for prosecuting Planned Parenthood for the acts shown in the videos. She cited a letter to Congress from Jim Esquea, Assistant Secretary for Legislation for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, asserting that "dismembering fetal tissue and selling it with or without the permission of the mother is completely legal."
Though the videos might not be admissible in any future prosecution of Planned Parenthood, Laguens contended that "they could be used as evidence in a civil suit against the Center for Medical Progress. Not only have the reputations of the well-regarded leaders of this great American institution been besmirched, but the privacy of the specimens has also been breached. Faces and naked bodies that were meant to be kept strictly private have been blandished all over the Internet. This amounts to the promulgation of child pornography—the very crime for which former Subway spokesman Jared Fogle has been convicted."
While Laguens acknowledged that "there probably isn't much money to be had in the form of court-awarded damages from the Center for Medical Progress, but making an example of them could be crucial to the financial success of Planned Parenthood going forward. On the one hand, crushing this small organization may dissuade others from pursuing similar stunts aimed at derailing Planned Parenthood's historic mission. On the other, our friends in government will be better armed to fend off attempts to cut Planned Parenthood's access to public funds if the instigators of this scandal are being sued."
In related news, Planned Parenthood has launched a series of political attack ads targeting members of Congress who voted to cut its federal funding. "Those seeking to parlay these scurrilous videos into a mechanism for advancing their anti-abortion agenda will pay a price for their sins," Laguens bragged. "We're urging voters to terminate the political careers of those pushing this war on women's reproductive rights."
if you missed any of this week's other semi-news/semi-satire posts you can find them at...
https://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Opinion/182078-2015-08-21-semi-news-semi-satire-august-23-2015-edition-by-john.htm
So maybe P/Phood can cash-in on its baby body parts business...maybe put
out a rap video---"Rubberize yo' penis, bro, or you be in da petrie dish."
You have no legal right to expose the brutal things we are doing, and if you do we will tie you up in court so you cannot function.
Another idiotic move by PP. Any litigation would fail as a matter of law. It would only serve to keep the issue in people’s minds for another year.
Right now the best PP move is to try to let / make this story run its course / go away... and they are foolishly keeping it ongoing in the minds of The Great Unwashed.
Stoooopid.
More legalize:
This is complete legal BS.
1. There was no expectation of privacy in a crowded restaurant.
2. Assuming the recordings were made in a 1-party consent state, there is no crime in recording the conversation as long as 1 party to the recording was occurring and obviously the investigators did know.
3. Since the faces and body parts were not identifyable as a specific person, no “owner” was identified, ergo, no claim.
4: If the “owners” were ever identified, they would have the claim, not PP, but the claim would generally fail, as the “victims “ would have self identified!
Finally, PP is trying to claim they were defamed because the investigators simply repeated their public comments. Stupid attempt at PR. Legal idiocy
One of Jesse Watters’s questions to Cathy Areu last night on The Factor inspired an idea.
He said offhandedle, “So you want to abort babies, but not deport them?”
I’m just waiting for this one to show up at a pro-PP rally:
DON’T DEPORT.
ABORT.
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