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Pair Whose Videos Exposed Planned Parenthood Get Plea Deal
NewsMax ^ | January 27, 2025 | Michael Katz

Posted on 01/28/2025 11:07:42 AM PST by Red Badger

Prosecutors in California have reached a plea deal to end a nearly decade-long court fight with an anti-abortion activist and journalist who together exposed Planned Parenthood for allegedly trafficking fetal body parts.

David Daleiden, founder of the Center for Medical Progress, and journalist Sandra Merritt, said Monday the criminal cases against them have ended, with the California Attorney General’s office agreeing to a plea deal that includes no prison time or fines, Live Action reported Monday.

Videos taken by Daleiden and Merritt exposed the scandal after they went undercover at various locations, including the National Abortion Federation’s 2014 and 2015 convention and trade shows. The videos, some of which were also taken from inside Planned Parenthood offices, showed executives discussing price negotiations and sales of human body parts.

The videos showed Planned Parenthood executives “haggling” with companies like StemExpress over the prices of organs and tissues taken from aborted children, some of whom were allegedly born alive before their hearts were harvested.

After some videos were released, former Vice President Kamala Harris, then California’s Democrat attorney general, met with Planned Parenthood officials in 2016, Live Action reported, after which she ordered criminal investigations into Merritt and Daleiden, including a search of Daleiden’s home.

Harris’ successor as attorney general, Democrat Xavier Becerra, who would become Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services under President Joe Biden, charged them both with violating California’s recording law. The state had never criminally prosecuted undercover journalists for recordings made in the public interest, according to Liberty Counsel, a Christian legal group that represented Merritt.

Merritt and Daleiden were each charged with 14 felony counts of unlawfully recording a conversation and one felony count of criminal conspiracy.

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; History; Politics
KEYWORDS: abortion; babyparts; california; harassment; persecution; plannedparenthood; prolife; stemexpress; trafficking

1 posted on 01/28/2025 11:07:42 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: Morgana

Ping....................


2 posted on 01/28/2025 11:08:25 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

Good news, but are they able to sue now for 10 years of hell?


3 posted on 01/28/2025 11:12:03 AM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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To: Red Badger

Read my tagline.

Of course when exposed Kamala Harris arrests the people who reported it.


4 posted on 01/28/2025 11:20:53 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: All

Videos taken byDavid Daleiden of the Center for Medical Progress, and journo Sandra Merritt:
<><>exposed the horrific PP scandal
<><>the two went undercover at various locations,
<><>including the Natl Abortion Federation’s 2014 and 2015 convention
<><>and taped inside Planned Parenthood offices,
<><>conniving PP executives discussed price negotiations and sales of human body parts.
<><>PP “haggled” w/ StemExpress over the prices of organs and tissues taken from aborted children,
<><>some of the children were allegedly born alive before their hearts were harvested.


5 posted on 01/28/2025 11:26:29 AM PST by Liz ((This then is how we should pray: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. ))
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To: Red Badger
Arrested the wrong people....

They should have gotten Whistle Blower status and been protected.

6 posted on 01/28/2025 11:32:25 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Red Badger

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7 posted on 01/29/2025 2:14:27 PM PST by sauropod (Make sure Satan has to climb over a lot of Scripture to get to you. John MacArthur Ne supra crepidam)
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