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Supreme Court Refuses to Help Pro-Life Advocate Forced to Pay Planned Parenthood $18 Million
Life News ^ | October 3, 2023 | Anne Reed

Posted on 10/03/2023 4:10:04 PM PDT by Morgana

In an act of injustice and failure to protect independent citizen journalism, the United States Supreme Court refused to provide certiorari in several related appeals filed by pro-life activists, including Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue. This decision ends the defendants’ efforts to obtain justice after Planned Parenthood’s use of lawfare resulted in a judgment and fees totaling more than $18 million.

The activists were wrongly convicted in a San Francisco Federal Court under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) after Planned Parenthood sued them for the 2015 release of a series of undercover videos detailing the Abortion Cartel’s secret participation in what appeared to be illegal profit-taking from the trafficking of tissue and organs harvested from the bodies of babies aborted at Planned Parenthood facilities.

Troy Newman, the lead defendant in Newman vs. Planned Parenthood, said, “This injustice is years in the making. Planned Parenthood has gamed the system to cover up their crimes and punish those of us who came forward to expose the heinous nature of what really happens behind the closed doors of America’s Abortion Cartel. However, in the end, Planned Parenthood has lost, because no matter what is levied against me, I will never stop speaking the truth to the American people about the barbarity of abortion and corruption that exists within the abortion industry, the current government, and the legal system that aids, abets, and protects the vicious shedding of innocent blood.”

The undercover video series showed clear evidence of Planned Parenthood officials admitting they harvested and sold aborted baby remains. The videos also contained eyewitness claims that many babies survived abortions, only to have their organs cut from their bodies as they struggled for life. This was done for the purpose of supplying the freshest samples, which could obtain the highest price from middle-man procurement companies and so-called “research” labs world-wide.

However, despite the evidence and two Congressional investigations that both resulted in Planned Parenthood’s criminal referrals to the U.S. Department of Justice, the corrupt FBI refused to investigate, and the DOJ declined to prosecute.

During Newman’s trial, a federal judge’s refusal to allow key evidence unduly influenced the trial’s outcome. An “unpublished” decision from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals essentially guaranteed that the Supreme Court would not take the case.

Yesterday’s decision permanently saddles Newman and the other defendants with a judgment of millions of dollars now owed to Planned Parenthood. RICO does not allow the defendants to discharge the judgment in bankruptcy, so they will be forever in debt, unable to own any personal property.

“In the end, the real losers are the women and babies who have been criminally exploited by the Abortion Cartel, the First Amendment that is meant to provide protections to journalistic free speech, and the American people who have been lied to and prevented from hearing a narrative that is critical of the pro-abortion ideology and actions supported by corrupt forces within our government,” said Newman.


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abortion; prolife
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To: Morgana

Sadly, I harbor doubts as to whether He will answer the door with a direct effort as you propose.


21 posted on 10/03/2023 5:37:36 PM PDT by Spacetrucker (George Washington didn't use his freedom of speech to defeat the British - HE SHOT THEM .. WITH GUNS)
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To: Morgana

So Troy got in trouble because he exposed the fact that PP butchers babies and rips out their organs while they’re still alive and then sells those “fresh” parts?

He gets punished but nothing happens to PP?

What happened to all the pro-lifers on the court?


22 posted on 10/03/2023 5:39:43 PM PDT by bimboeruption (Trump = The best President since Washington. )
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To: napscoordinator

Also, I assume that Elena Kagan may have had a say in refusing to hear the appeal.

Circuit Assignments:

https://www.supremecourt.gov/about/circuitAssignments.aspx


23 posted on 10/03/2023 5:50:56 PM PDT by Mr. N. Wolfe
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To: Mr. N. Wolfe

I’m pretty sure she’d be against it for sure.


24 posted on 10/03/2023 6:08:25 PM PDT by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: Morgana

File Bankruptcy on them..join the new growing trend..


25 posted on 10/03/2023 6:09:20 PM PDT by dpetty121263
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To: napscoordinator

SCOTUS are lazy wrt the number of cases they take.


26 posted on 10/03/2023 6:09:53 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Morgana

Heysus hangs out with Elvis at a local 7-11?


27 posted on 10/03/2023 6:11:16 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: napscoordinator

“It’s a shame but they have a full docket. Huge cases coming up”

Boo fucking hoo. They have a lot of work to do my ass. If they worked like most of America they wouldn’t have to pick and choose from a back log. Everybody would have their day in court.


28 posted on 10/03/2023 6:12:51 PM PDT by chuckb87
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To: Morgana

Our ‘legal system’ is a joke, on a good day. I have incredibly little faith in it. The ONLY things that have ever made it work were the integrity and honesty of citizen jurors. Unfortunately, having integrity and being honest are no longer all that important in our society. They have become subservient to what now passes as ‘winning’. As long as your ideological beliefs are served, it doesn’t matter what the truth is. America is in limbo. It truly is. Maybe we can make our way back.


29 posted on 10/03/2023 6:20:20 PM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: chuckb87

Take it up with them. A strongly worded letter may do the trick.


30 posted on 10/03/2023 6:22:57 PM PDT by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: Mr. N. Wolfe
Our country is fighting for its life and SCOTUS is passively watching it happen.

Just giving them the same treatment they gave Trump. Grateful bunch there huh.

31 posted on 10/03/2023 6:36:52 PM PDT by itsahoot (Many Republicans are secretly Democrats, no Democrats are secretly Republicans. Dan Bongino.)
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To: Reverend Wright

We need to declare the rights to the one we own.


32 posted on 10/03/2023 6:49:59 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: Paladin2

Yep they get the summer off paid.


33 posted on 10/04/2023 7:24:04 AM PDT by Engedi
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To: Morgana

I’m like if Jesus don’t come soon I’m going to get in the car and go get him!!
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I sure wish you could.


34 posted on 10/04/2023 10:24:16 AM PDT by KittyKares
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