John R. Houk
© March 30, 2017
About a half-a-year ago, the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) under the
auspices David Daleiden and Sandra
Merritt exposed Planned Parenthood not only as a baby-killing
factory but also as an agent for selling murdered baby parts to a research
organization illegally. The thing that makes Planned Parenthood heinous is that
babies had to be born intact for the most precious baby parts. Intact means
born alive then killed.
Even though Planned Parenthood committed the crimes, it was
Daleiden and Merritt that were charged – first in Texas and now in California.
The Texas charges were dropped after it became obvious
pro-Dem Party prosecutors tainted a Grand Jury to indict them. NOW, under
similar corrupt circumstances, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra (who
replaced another corrupt CA AG that went after CMP undercover operators) is
another corrupt AG with ties to Planned Parenthood.
Evidently California has made it easy for criminals to
commit crimes by passing privacy laws that mandate a citizen cannot be recorded
with prior authorization. HENCE, a private citizen cannot get the goods on a
criminal or criminals for breaking the law.
If you trust more in Biblical Morality than Secular Humanism
then you understand Planned Parenthood and all people that believe a woman has
a greater right to choose baby-killing more than an unborn person has a right
to life, then you should tune into the Sixth Commandment:
13 “You
shall not murder. (Exodus 20: 13 NKJV)
When governments enforce the laws of man over God’s
Commandments, you know there is a cultural degradation in America.
Who is responsible for this cultural degradation? Left Wing
Democrats that first fundamentally transformed America in stealth via activist
Judges then down right out in the open under eight years of the Obama
Administration.
Below is a press releases I received by email from Operation
Rescue. Then I have some information from Legal
Insurrection and The Blaze.
Get informed. Get annoyed. DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!
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California AG Files Politically Motivated Charges Against
Daleiden and Merritt
From Operation Rescue
Sent March 29, 2017 8:40 AM
Sacramento, CA - Late yesterday, California Attorney General
Xavier Becerra charged pro-life investigative journalists David Daleiden and
Sandra Merritt of the Center for Medical Progress with 15 felony counts related
to secret recordings they made that provided evidence of Planned Parenthood's
participation in the illegal trafficking of aborted baby remains.
In 2016, Daleiden and Merritt were indicted by a tainted
grand jury on similar charges, which were later dismissed after evidence
surfaced that the Harris County District
Attorney's office had colluded with Planned Parenthood for
political reasons to turn the grand jury against the pro-life activists.
"Just as corruption was involved in the last attempt to
falsely charge David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt, I predict that corruption is
at the heart of these California charges as well. It is despicable that the
California Attorney General charged innocent whistleblowers with felonies
instead of the career criminals at Planned Parenthood. This is the ultimate
abuse of power and tyranny. The Planned Parenthood butchers have committed tens
of thousands of felonies by illegally selling baby's body parts for profit,"
said Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue who also served as a founding
member of the board for the Center for Medical Progress.
Newman was not mentioned in the charging documents.
It is believed that the California charges are in
retaliation to criminal referrals of several Planned Parenthood organizations
to the U.S. Department of Justice by the Senate Judiciary
Committee and the House Select
Investigative Panel on Infant Lives.
"We call on U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions to
aggressively prosecute Planned Parenthood and their partners in the illegal
aborted baby parts trade," said Cheryl Sullenger, Senior Vice President of
Operation Rescue. "We ask that Attorney General Sessions resist any
intimidation by California authorities who are simply acting as Democratic
operatives on a political agenda to thwart any prosecution of Planned
Parenthood."
In response to the charges, Daleiden has released a new video
that features Planned Parenthood executives making statements that further
illustrate their involvement in the illicit trade of aborted baby remains.
VIDEO: Planned
Parenthood Abortionist: "Pay Attention to Who's In the Room" to Deal
With Infants Born Alive
Posted by The Center for Medical Progress
Published
on Mar 29, 2017
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California’s AG
Charges Undercover Reporters Who Exposed Planned Parenthood Baby Part Selling
March 29, 2017 at
1:30pm
Late Tuesday night,
California’s Attorney General charged David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt with a whopping fifteen felonies.
Daleiden and
Merritt, by way of the Center for Medical Progress (CMP), released several
horrifying undercover videos exposing Planned Parenthood officials negotiating
the price of aborted baby parts.
California is a
two-party consent state, meaning both parties in any recording must consent to be
recorded. 14 of the 15 charges are for recording confidential conversations
without consent. The last is for conspiracy to commit a felony by recording
private conversations at a conference.
Placing the
two-party consent nonsense on hold for a moment, Daleiden and Merritt made two
errors through the course of their investigation, one of which was omitted from
the charges levied against them.
1) creating and using fake IDs
2) using an expired employee ID to login to Stem Expresses system
The former was not
included, the latter was cited in the 15th felony charge.
Pretending to be a
fictitious person is not a crime. Neither is creating a fake organization. The
sale or purchase of fetal tissue, though (should it interfere with interstate
commerce), that’s a federal felony. We’re not holding our breath for any AG to
file charges against those who were captured on video discussing the sale of
dismembered babies.
CMP’s series of
undercover videos lead to a Congressional investigation in which Cecile
Richards, Planned Parenthood President, referred to the conversations as
“non-confidential.”
Posted by benalvino1860
Published on Sep 30,
2015
Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH) got into a heated debate with Planned
Parenthood president Cecile Richards during a Congressional hearing earlier
this week.
Jordan wanted to know why Richards, just a few days after watching one of the Planned Parenthood videos which showed high-ranking officials bartering over baby parts, issued an apology.
Jordan repeatedly asked “Why did you apologize?”
Jordan wanted to know why Richards, just a few days after watching one of the Planned Parenthood videos which showed high-ranking officials bartering over baby parts, issued an apology.
Jordan repeatedly asked “Why did you apologize?”
Bogus charges. @PPact @CecileRichards
said under oath, taped convos NOT "confidential"...we call her as 1st
witness?
The media should be
rushing to defend Daldeiden [sic] and Merritt against these clearly politically
wrought charges. And yet…
Some of the best
reporting from the last century has been done undercover. Shows like Dateline and To
Catch a Predator were predicated on using undercover tactics and ruses
to either expose wrongdoing or bait would-be wrong doers.
In what seems like a
lifetime ago, I worked with James O’Keefe and his undercover investigative
outfit, Project Veritas. I recruited and coached undercover vidoegraphers
across the country. One of our biggest considerations in every investigation
was “is this legal?” I worked extensively with our attornies and videographers
on the legal boundaries of recording and investigating. A case that came up
regularly in our guidance was Medical
Laboratory Consultants vs. American Broadcasting Companies (2002).
In this case, the 9th circuit held that undercover, hidden camera
investigations in medical labs were not an invasion of
privacy.
As to the conference
Daleiden and Merritt attended and recorded, we worked on several different
investigations in two-party consent states where attending a conference was either
part of the investigation or was the investigation. Guidance
was always the same — if there is an announcement, either written or oral at a
conference that sessions and general conference going would be recorded, then
there is no expectation of privacy and hidden camera reporting would likely
pass legal scrutiny.
The last time @PPact colluded with political cronies to persecute citizen
journalists, both charges AND corrupt DA thrown out! BRING IT ON!!
Daleiden further
responded to the charges by releasing yet another undercover video, and
arguably the most sickening one to date, showing Planned Parenthood officials
discussing dismemberment abortions and killing newborns:
At a networking reception at a Planned Parenthood conference, CMP
investigators posing as buyers from a biotech company are introduced to Dr.
Taylor by Dr. Deborah Nucatola, Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s
Senior Director of Medical Services.
Dr. Taylor confirms she does elective abortions on healthy fetuses and
pregnant women up to 24 weeks. When the investigators ask her about obtaining
intact fetal organs, Dr. Taylor replies, “It’s not a matter of how I
feel about it coming out intact, but I gotta worry about my staff and people’s
feelings about it coming out looking like a baby.”
She continues, “We have the people who do our paperwork for the
fetal death certificates, they email us calling them ‘babies’. Baby this, baby
that, baby so-and-so, and I’m like, that’s creepy!”
Dr. Taylor explains to the investigators, “In Arizona, if the fetus
comes out with any signs of life, we’re supposed to transport it. To the
hospital.” When one investigator then asks, “Is there any standard
procedure for verifying signs of of life?” Dr. Taylor replies, “Well,
the thing is, I mean the key is, you need to pay attention to who’s in the
room, right?”
Dr. Taylor then laughs as she repeats what the Arizona law requires, and
says, “It’s a mess. It’s a mess.”
Dr. Taylor acknowledges that the feticidal chemical digoxin cannot be
used in an abortion where fetal body parts will be harvested for sale, but she
remarks that in a standard dismemberment dilation and evacuation abortion, “My
biceps appreciate when the dig[oxin] works,” to kill the fetus before
the procedure. “I remember when I was a [Family Planning] Fellow and I was
training, I was like, Oh, I have to hit the gym for this,” she says,
describing the force she feels in her biceps when performing a dismemberment abortion
with forceps.
Charges filed
against Daldeiden for in Texas were dropped last summer.
Shortly after
Daleiden released the latest undercover video, the 9th circuit granted the
National Abortion Federation a preliminary injunction, “prohibiting Biomax
Procurement Services LLC, the Center for Medical Progress (CMP), David
Daleiden, and Troy Newman from releasing recordings and materials they
illegally obtained at NAF’s educational meetings.”
CMP will fight unconstitutional gag order on the remaining damning and
incriminating videos of @PPact @NatAbortionFed
#PeskyFirstAmendment
California’s AG may
hope to punish Daleiden and Merritt for exposing the disgusting underbelly of
Planned Parenthood, but ultimately, it will embolden life and speech advocates
nationwide.
Follow Kemberlee
on Twitter @kemberleekaye
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California AG who
charged pro-life filmmakers accepted thousands of dollars from Planned
Parenthood
By Kate Scanlon
Mar 29, 2017 5:13 pm
California Attorney
General Xavier Becerra, a Democrat who filed 15 felony charges against pro-life
filmmakers Tuesday, previously accepted thousands of dollars in campaign
contributions from Planned Parenthood during his congressional campaigns.
Becerra announced
Tuesday that the state had filed charges against
David Daleiden, the founder of The Center for Medical Progress, and his
associate, Sandra Merritt, for their roles in the release of a series of
undercover videos that showed Planned Parenthood employees appearing to
negotiate the price of aborted fetal body parts.
Profiting from the
sale of human body parts — including those of the unborn — is illegal under
federal law. Planned Parenthood denied illegal conduct and applauded the
indictment of the pro-life filmmakers.
…
According to the
Washington Examiner,
Becerra, who previously served in the House of Representatives,
received campaign contributions from Planned Parenthood during his
congressional campaigns. Data from the Center for Responsive Politics shows
that Becerra received $2,000 from
Planned Parenthood during his 2012 campaign, and $1,000 in 2014.
When Becerra was appointed to
be California’s attorney general by the state’s Gov. Jerry Brown (D) late last
year, Planned Parenthood released a statement praising
him as “a long-time champion for women’s reproductive rights and health.”
Becerra’s
predecessor, Kamala Harris, who now represents California as a Democrat in the
U.S. Senate, received $2,600 from Planned Parenthood during her 2016 Senate
campaign, according to data from
the Center for Responsive Politics.
Harris had a history
of working on behalf of Planned Parenthood’s agenda.
As attorney general,
she spearheaded an investigation into The Center for Medical Progress.
Daleiden said last April that Harris’ office raided his home and seized his
video footage.
Emails obtained by
the Washington Times in September showed that Harris’ office also collaborated with Planned
Parenthood to draft legislation criminalizing the recording or
distribution of a private conversation with a health care provider, targeting
The Center for Medical Progress. The emails showed a Harris staffer asking Beth
Parker, chief legal counsel for Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California, to
review the text of the bill.
The bill was signed into law by
Brown.
Harris vowed to
defend Planned Parenthood as a senator and urged supporters to sign a petition
in defense of the group on her campaign website.
The Washington Free
Beacon reported that
both attorneys general received thousands of additional funds from other
pro-choice groups allied with Planned Parenthood during their congressional
campaigns.
Becerra’s office did
not immediately respond to TheBlaze’s request for comment about the campaign
contributions.
Daleiden’s attorney,
Tom Brejcha, who is also president and chief counsel of the Thomas More
Society, said in a statement provided to TheBlaze, “When it comes to felony
charges against our client, David Daleiden, history is on our side.”
“When David Daleiden
and Sandra Merritt were falsely charged in Texas, after they mounted a vigorous
defense, the charges were abruptly dropped. We expect that the same will prove
true in California,” Brejcha said.
Lila Rose, the
president and founder of the pro-life group Live Action, which has also
released undercover footage of
Planned Parenthood employees, said in a statement that “using state power to
attack citizen journalists who expose crimes against the defenseless is a
severe miscarriage of justice”:
The real criminal is Planned Parenthood, not David Daleiden and Sandra
Merritt. The Center for Medical Progress did a tremendous service by exposing
the barbaric baby parts trafficking that Planned Parenthood had kept hidden
behind closed doors. They should be lauded for their brave work, not punished.
California’s last two pro-abortion attorneys general have yet to
investigate Planned Parenthood after two congressional committees found
significant evidence that it may have broken the law with its baby parts
trafficking scheme. Similar charges against David and Sandra were dropped in
Texas months ago, yet Mr. Becerra insists on punishing them and putting his
political agenda ahead of the laws that he was sworn to uphold.
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California: Privacy Trumps
Human Life
John R. Houk
© March 30, 2017
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California AG Files
Politically Motivated Charges Against Daleiden and Merritt
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