Posted on 07/30/2015 6:32:22 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross
A California court has ordered the pro-life Center for Medical Progress, the group behind a series of videos exposing Planned Parenthood for haggling over the price of aborted baby parts, to desist from released any new footage exposing the practice.
According to a report by Fox News, officials from a company that purchases baby parts from Planned Parenthood were granted a restraining order against CMP, restricting them from releasing new undercover video. At this point, CMP has released three videos showing a series of conversations about how much money Planned Parenthood receives for certain parts of a baby's aborted body. CMP reportedly has a dozen videos showing something similar. More (bolding is mine):
A temporary restraining order has been issued preventing an anti-abortion group from releasing any video of leaders of a California company that provides fetal tissue to researchers. The group is the same one that previously released three covertly shot videos of a Planned Parenthood leader discussing the sale of aborted fetuses for research.
The Los Angeles Superior Court order issued Tuesday prohibits the Center for Medical Progress from releasing any video of three high-ranking StemExpress officials taken at a restaurant in May. It appears to be the first legal action prohibiting the release of a video from the organization.
In the first video released by the Center for Medical Progress, Dr. Deborah Nucatola, Planned Parenthood's senior director of medical services, describes techniques for obtaining fetal body parts for researchers to activists posing as potential buyers from a human biologics company over lunch. When asked about partnering with Planned Parenthood directly rather than through its affiliates, Nucatola mentioned StemExpress as one company that had approached them.
In another previously released video, a woman identified as a former StemExpress phlebotomist describes drawing blood and dissecting dead fetuses.
"I thought I was going to be just drawing blood, not procuring tissue from aborted fetuses," the employee, Holly O'Donnell, said.
According to attorney and law school professor Hugh Hewitt, this doesn't happen often:
Oh gosh, a prior restraint. I tell my law students they never will see one, but of course for PP all law must bend.
"StemExpress, a for-profit company partnered with over 30 abortion clinics, including Planned Parenthood, to harvest and sell aborted baby parts and provide a “financial benefit” to Planned Parenthood clinics, is attempting to use meritless litigation to cover-up this illegal baby parts trade, suppress free speech, and silence the citizen press reporting on issues of burning concern to the American public," CMP said in a statement in response to the lawsuit and restraining order. "They are not succeeding—their initial petition was rejected by the court, and their second petition was eviscerated to a narrow and contingent order about an alleged recording pending CMP’s opportunity to respond. The Center for Medical Progress follows all applicable laws in the course of our investigative journalism work and will contest all attempts from Planned Parenthood and their allies to silence our First Amendment rights and suppress investigative journalism."
Yesterday as Guy wrote, Planned Parenthood is desperately pleaded with the media to stop covering its baby parts scandal as lawmakers on Capitol Hill get read to vote on defunding the abortion giant. They've also allocated a significant amount of resources for damage control.
Besieged by negative headlines and a horrified public, Planned Parenthood has hired a crisis PR firm, which is attempting to mitigate the damage via the application of heavy pressure on media outlets (many of which are dominated by abortion supporters) to to ignore or soft-pedal the story.
CMP may be delayed for now on the release of new videos, but they have nearly a dozen of them which will eventually be produced for public viewing. Planned Parenthood and the companies who pay them for aborted body parts won't be able to hide behind lawsuits forever. Not to mention, even Hillary Clinton finds the videos "disturbing," which means at least some of her pro-choice, Democrat supporters do too.
Fmr. Planned Parenthood Director: Biz Is Making $100 to $200 Off Each Fetal Body Part
Why Planned Parenthood Can’t Donate Tissue Harvested From Babies
http://thefederalist.com/2015/07/29/why-planned-parenthood-cant-donate-tissue-from-harvested-babies/
Third Under cover Video released
http://www.progressivestoday.com/third-planned-parenthood-undercover-video-released/
OUTRAGE: Obama Admin Balks At Doing This For Servicemen Slaughtered By Chattanooga Muslim NO PURPLE HEART UNLESS FBI declares that the shooter — identified as Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez — had specific ties to a terror organization such as ISIS,
http://www.westernjournalism.com/outrage-obama-admin-balks-at-doing-this-for-servicemen-slaughtered-by-chattanooga-musli/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=WesternJournalism&utm_content=2015-07-28
Body Parts for Profit: How Abortion Clinics Supply Stem Cell Research (2012 flashback)
http://occupycorporatism.com/body-parts-for-profit-how-abortion-clinics-supply-stem-cell-research/
Planned Parenthood Tries To Silence Undercover Videos By Sending Threatening Letters To TV
http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/planned-parenthood-tries-silence-undercover-videos-sending-threatening-letters-tv-stations
Civil disobedience for the makers of those videos is the right recommendation. Our support of them as the bleep hits the fan is our duty as well
Planned Infanticide is a human chop shop.
How DARE you insult the Jewish faith like this. The only candle of light is that the ruling was in CA. I may be wrong, but can anyone get a hold of or remember, that, in at least a few of the CA districts, new desks in schools will not have seats, because the “educators” think the kids learn more standing up????
Yeah, it's a darn shame.......I'm actually all broke up about it.
I guess Planned Parenthood was too busy picking over aborted babies for body parts....or maybe they were over at the Lamborghini dealer.....so they stupidly sued the wrong person.
In this day of www.com pushing out information or videos can not be controlled by a court. A court order in, say, California has no standing in, say, Florida. Or even any destination outside the US. And once on the web it never dies. All this does is draw more attention to the whole debacle.....
Wow, they bought a judge AND the media. there must be mucho dinero in dead baby parts.
SUBJECT: Collusion, conspiracy, bribery
IN RE: financial irregularities
REFERENCE: govt fraud, falsified documents, wire transfers, accounting fraud, etc.
NARRATIVE Taxpayers demand to know the scope and dimension of multiple conspiracies to collude in sub rosa deals to personally profit and/or to facilitate illegal sales of baby body parts.
OF INTEREST TO LAW ENFORCEMENT The FBI should interrogate individuals at Stem Express and its affiliated companies and Planned Parenthood for evidence of multiple schemes to falsify official documents to further fraudulent schemes, and the filing of official documents that were falsified. The FBI should investigate any and all official documents submitted for falsified entries.
Crimes might include--govt fraud, conspiracy, collusion, falsifying official documents (a felony), filing falsified documents, money laundering, tax evasion, extortion, theft, misuse of public facilities.
Examine tax returns of Stem Express and its affiliates and Planned Parenthood... particularly entries for "interest income."
Taxpayers demand investigation by the following agencies commence at once:
<><> FBI -- Wire Fraud Division
<><> IRS-Fraud Unit
<><> Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General,
<><> Department of Commerce’s Office of Inspector General.
<><> DOJ's Criminal Division-- Public Integrity Section
<><> DOJ Criminal Division--Organized Crime and Gang Section.
<><> Title 18 U.S.C. §1341, Mail Fraud, 18 U.S.C.§1001, Presenting a False Document to an Agent of the US Government (involves several felonies and could include forgery);
<><> 18 U.S.C.§1027 False statements and concealment of facts in relation to documents required by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and other possible offenses including civiland/or criminal RICO violations.
<><> 18 U.S.C. §§1961-68 (RICO Act)18 U.S.C. §1001 (making false Statements to Agents of the US Government),
<><> 18 U.S.C. §241(Conspiracies Against Civil Rights).
Possibly full investigations crentering on RICO conspiracies under 18 U.S.C. §1962(c) could be warranted because (1) the persons (2) were employed by or associated with an enterprise (3) that engaged in or affected interstate commerce and that (4) the persons operated or managed the enterprise (5) through a "pattern" (6) of racketeering activity, and (7) the taxpayers were injured by reason of the "pattern" of racketeering activity.
Alleged Offenses could include Violation of Title 18 U.S.C. §241 – Conspiracy Against Constitutional Rights – which prohibits in relevant part, “two or more persons (from conspiring) to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same . . .” See, 18 U.S.C. §241.
The only good aspect of this has been the flood of outrage we’ve heard from the news media and pundits on “censorship” and “prior restraint.”
Oh, never mind... nothing but silence.
Really.
Time to start playing the game the way the dems play.
Give a different video to a different person non of which are connected to CMP in any way.
Let them release the video.
Get a court order stopping that person from releasing any more videos is no big deal because they have no more to release.
To screw the pooch even further have the people you give the video to pass the video to someone else unknown which passes it to someone else.
Run the SOBs in circles trying to stop the release of the videos.
Goodbye freedom of speech.
Goodbye Constitution.
I don’t think the authorities are going to like the result of getting rid of the rule of law.
LOL!!
In California the Law is what is convenient for the ruling party.
Supposedly this group had already posted 400 hours of video on the internet uncut.
They are dismantling the rule of law.
OKAY
FINE
Game on.
I don’t think they are going to like the result but oh well.
That court/judge needs freeped,can anyone disclose contact information?
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