Posted on 10/15/2015 2:47:10 PM PDT by NYer
Coverage of issues surrounding abortion in the mainstream media is seldom dispassionate or objective. Reporters are people, and it’s the rare person who can keep his or her true feelings under wraps to get the job done.
But, David Daleiden is one of those people. For years, the passionate 26-year-old pro-life activist — a Catholic based in Southern California’s Orange County, who describes himself as an “investigative journalist” — put his own emotions on a shelf. He then immersed himself in the business of trafficking in the body parts of aborted fetuses, and especially Planned Parenthood’s key role in the trade.
His series of undercover, hidden-camera videos, focusing on both Planned Parenthood and labs that acquire the baby body parts, have proven explosive, triggering much news coverage and Congressional hearings.
Considering Planned Parenthood’s role as a reliable funder of Democrat candidates, it’s unlikely that the organization will disappear. But, on Oct. 13, PP head Cecile Richards announced that the group would no longer accept “reimbursements” for supplying researchers with the brains and organs of slain unborn infants.
From The Los Angeles Times:
David Daleiden, founder of the Center for Medical Progress, called the policy change “an admission of guilt.”
“If the money Planned Parenthood has been receiving for baby body parts were truly legitimate ‘reimbursement,’ why cancel it?” Daleiden asked in a statement. “This proves what CMP has been saying all along — Planned Parenthood incurs no actual costs, and the payments for harvested fetal parts have always been an extra profit margin.”
As might be expected, PP has hit back at Daleiden’s group, claiming the videos were obtained by fraud and are deceptively edited (apparently that’s not true).
This has brought about a case of strange bedfellows, as, in August, Nathan Runkle, the founder and president of Mercy for Animals, penned a USA Today column defending the practice of making undercover videos. His group used them to expose inhumane farming practices.
He wrote:
Undercover investigations, it turns out, are not just effective tools for exposing and ending animal abuse, they fall squarely within our fundamental First Amendment rights. In the case of the videos we have produced, the only people who have a problem with that are those with something to hide.
Then today, The Washington Post put out a surprisingly even-handed and detailed profile of Daleiden (good for the WaPo and writer Sandhya Somashekhar!).
Click here to read the whole thing, but here are a couple of excerpts:
While on an assignment for a professor, Daleiden wound up at a conference on stem cell research where a presenter mentioned that the results of her work had been drawn from the brains of aborted fetuses.
“I thought, wait, did I hear that right?” he recalled.
His horror stuck with him for years, as did what he sees as a cruel paradox — that when it comes to a fetus, “its humanity isn’t considered valid, yet it’s precisely that same humanity that makes it valuable for experimentation.”
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Whatever the outcome, Daleiden’s project has already exceeded the wildest expectations of antiabortion activists. He has released 10 videos from clinic visits, Planned Parenthood meetings and lunches with executives, and put the abortion issue back on the front burner in Washington and on the presidential campaign trail.
Image: Fox News screenshot
Catholic ping!
I love this man!!!
Note they DO NOT deny that this was occurring at all!!!
Rather, they turn it back on the “accuser” and claim he “got the film: insert one of many excuses here...
This is Lib Speak 101 and it takes a logical person off track when trying to help them understand your side...
Yeah But they did xxxx
Ah, A But Sandwich...
Bread crumbs from a Liar
They don’t care, they know better and we will agree down the road...
Trust Me...
My Jewish friends agree this is just another way of saying F*** you
America can still produce heroes.
This kid has a target on his back.
At the very least, I hope he has a concealed carry.
Finally, a MAN who is repulsed by abortion and standing up to fight it in a very public arena.
I still find the description of PP as a ‘womens health organization’ totally incongruous. Pregnancy is not a disease - it is the result of sexual activity.
Sexually active women need to take the pill, or say ‘no’ and before casual sex, men should consider the potential of being an accomplice to the murder of an innocent son or daughter.
26 years old. 26. This good man is not only doing God's work, he serves as an example to all of us. The echoes of the many times throughout my life that I've said to myself, "But what can I, one person, do?" today haunts me.
God bless you, David Daleidin.
May God Bless this young man!
A man of GOD!!
There’s a guy who deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.
He will only get to heaven by God’s mercy, but my o my, these works must demonstrate a true faith presence!
What a brave Christian man!
Did anyone hear that the head of Planned Parenthood, Ceci whoever, announced this week, perhaps on the Demo “Debate” night for cover, that PP would no longer sell the parts of aborted babies?
Yes, I read it somewhere. Maybe they are giving them away now.
Again, here's the LINK to the WashingtonPost article on Daleiden (LINK). It is terrific. I am dumbfounded that WaPo printed it!
PP announced that it would stop taking payment for body parts. However, they still intend to charge their customers $1500 for an entire dead fetus. Source
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