Journalists Charged With 15 Felonies For Undercover Videos Exposing Planned Parenthood

[caddo kid]

THE DAILYWIRE ^ | May 21, 2019

David Daleiden

Journalists David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt, who exposed suspect dealings at taxpayer-funded abortion mill Planned Parenthood via undercover videos, were denied a request to halt criminal prosecution, a press release from The Thomas More Society said on Friday.

Ocasio-Cortez: There'd Be 'As Many Planned Parenthood Clinics' As Post Offices If Male Politicians Could Get Pregnant

(See video in link at source)

Last month, the California Supreme Court issued a stay in the high-profile case based on "political bias and selective prosecution." But now the case is moving forward.

Daleiden and Merritt were hit with 15 felony charges in March of 2017 for their undercover work. The charges were widely decried for their threat to journalists, including by the left-wing Los Angeles Times. "Felony charges are a disturbing overreach for the duo behind the Planned Parenthood sting videos," a headline for the outlet warned.

Vice President and Senior Counsel at the Thomas More Society Peter Breen, who is part of Mr. Daleiden’s legal team, blasted the denial to cease prosecution.

"This decision to deny David Daleiden’s Petition for Review means that [California Attorney General] Xavier Becerra, as Planned Parenthood's prosecutor-in-chief, will be able to continue his unconstitutional harassment of David, bringing charges against him that don't pass the 'red face test,'" said Breen.

AG Becerra is an ally of Planned Parenthood; he took over for now-presidential contender Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA). Live Action reports on the potential conflict of interest:

Becerra has publicly promised to “stand with Planned Parenthood,” and both he and his predecessor, now Senator Kamala Harris, have received thousands of dollars in campaign donations from the pro-abortion organization. Both Harris and Becerra maintained their close relationship with Planned Parenthood and its entities even after proceeding with the investigation against Daleiden and Merritt. According to Daleiden’s representation, the Thomas More Society, Planned Parenthood even sponsored and hosted Becerra’s election night victory party.

---snip ---

Videos from Daleiden and Merritt, then working for the Center for Medical Progress, shook the country in 2015. Americans saw parts of unborn babies killed by abortion and witnessed Planned Parenthood executives appear to haggle over prices of said body parts. Planned Parenthood, however, claimed they are merely being reimbursed for the costs of prepping and transferring the body parts.

"Daleiden, along with co-conspirator Sandra Merritt, used manufactured identities and a fictitious bioresearch company to meet women's healthcare providers and covertly record the private discussions they initiated," Becerra alleged, according to the Christian Post.

"The right to privacy is a cornerstone of California's Constitution, and a right that is foundational in a free democratic society … We will not tolerate the criminal recording of confidential conversations," he added.

"The public knows the real criminals are Planned Parenthood and their business partners like StemExpress and DV Biologics — currently being prosecuted in California — who have harvested and sold aborted baby body parts for profit for years in direct violation of state and federal law," Daleiden contended after charges were handed down.

It has also been determined by a federal appellate court that videos from the Center for Medical Progress were not "deceptively edited," as claimed by the pro-abortion Left.

As noted by Live Action, "The court will now reschedule a preliminary hearing as the case against Merritt moves forward. During this hearing, Becerra will present evidence to try and convince the judge that Merritt and Daleiden should stand trial before a jury on fifteen felony charges related to their undercover videos."

---------------

Let's say a crisis pregnancy center was coercing women to give birth so they could make a profit through black market adoption or something equally horrible. And some pro-choice journalists exposed this through secret recordings.

Does anyone believe those journalists would have been anything but heroes? Would they have even been charged at all, let alone with 15 felonies?

Just like all the emails that showed how Hillary and the DNC conspired to give her the nomination. The only thing the DemonRATS were angry about was who released the emails.

The purpose of this lawsuit is to wear down the journalists who exposed PP and to bankrupt them so that nobody else dares to expose PP as the traffickers in death that they are.

journalist have a tuff job; at least he didn't get assassinated by the Saudis with Trump's blessing

assassination is a from of abortion; right?

 

[Dana7360]

No one is violating a woman's sovereignty over her body. She is free to not get pregnant all day long.

An individual is free to exercise his or her sovereignty over his or her body at all times, with or without a pregnancy occurring within it. Can you force someone to be circumcised or have a vasectomy? No. You cannot.

The baby can live outside her body as early as 18 weeks...it is a science fact!

Great, show one time in history where that's ever happened.

I guess that person doesn't realize that 18 weeks is only about 4 and a half months of a 9 month pregnancy. Which means it's only half through gestation.

There are no recorded events of a 18 week fetus surviving outside the womb. The earliest a fetus has ever survived is birth at 22 weeks.

An 18 week fetus is only about 5 inches long and around 5 oz in weight. All of the organs aren't even fully working yet.

For anyone to say an 18 week fetus can survive outside the womb is ridiculous and nothing but a liar. One who expects everyone to be as stupid about the human gestation process as they are.

We're debating idiots, so what do you expect?

True.

They seem to just make things up as they go along. No matter how ridiculous their lies are.

18 weeks is the second trimester. About a month an a half into the second trimester.

These people should stop lying. All their lies do is turn more people away from them.

 

[bullwinkle]

No one is violating a woman's sovereignty over her body. She is free to not get pregnant all day long.

An individual is free to exercise his or her sovereignty over his or her body at all times, with or without a pregnancy occurring within it. Can you force someone to be circumcised or have a vasectomy? No. You cannot.

The baby can live outside her body as early as 18 weeks...it is a science fact!

Great, show one time in history where that's ever happened.

I guess that person doesn't realize that 18 weeks is only about 4 and a half months of a 9 month pregnancy. Which means it's only half through gestation.

There are no recorded events of a 18 week fetus surviving outside the womb. The earliest a fetus has ever survived is birth at 22 weeks.

An 18 week fetus is only about 5 inches long and around 5 oz in weight. All of the organs aren't even fully working yet.

For anyone to say an 18 week fetus can survive outside the womb is ridiculous and nothing but a liar. One who expects everyone to be as stupid about the human gestation process as they are.

You've completely missed the point -- intentionally.

You have no respect for innocent human life

Death Angel, I DO have respect for human life. A child born early as 18 or 21 weeks will spend its lifetime disabled due to being undeveloped at birth. Parents of children born underdeveloped are heroes IMHO when their kids can't sit up alone or feed themselves or speak their whole lifelong. But the irony is, these kids are born with pre-existing conditions, and since their parents have no choice but to lobby for outside help with medical bills, they become 'welfare queens' and scorned. Even as we post there are 7 or 8 Republican States that are suing to restore the right to deny or charge usury for pre-existing medical conditions.

I do not understand this reverence for pre-birth that changes to scorn for that very same individual if it needs medical help or food, shelter, clothing, education after birth.....

 

[Dana7360]

No one is violating a woman's sovereignty over her body. She is free to not get pregnant all day long.

An individual is free to exercise his or her sovereignty over his or her body at all times, with or without a pregnancy occurring within it. Can you force someone to be circumcised or have a vasectomy? No. You cannot.

The baby can live outside her body as early as 18 weeks...it is a science fact!

Great, show one time in history where that's ever happened.

I guess that person doesn't realize that 18 weeks is only about 4 and a half months of a 9 month pregnancy. Which means it's only half through gestation.

There are no recorded events of a 18 week fetus surviving outside the womb. The earliest a fetus has ever survived is birth at 22 weeks.

An 18 week fetus is only about 5 inches long and around 5 oz in weight. All of the organs aren't even fully working yet.

For anyone to say an 18 week fetus can survive outside the womb is ridiculous and nothing but a liar. One who expects everyone to be as stupid about the human gestation process as they are.

You've completely missed the point -- intentionally.

You have no respect for innocent human life

If you have to lie how valid is your point and why should anyone pay any attention to what you say?

The reality is that when people realize they're being lied to they totally ignore what the person is saying.

People aren't as stupid as you are. They know when they're being lied to and they're insulted that you think they're that stupid to actually believe your lies.

But then the truth isn't on your side so all you have left is lies.

 

[Dana7360]

An individual is free to exercise his or her sovereignty over his or her body at all times, with or without a pregnancy occurring within it. Can you force someone to be circumcised or have a vasectomy? No. You cannot.

The baby can live outside her body as early as 18 weeks...it is a science fact!

Great, show one time in history where that's ever happened.

I guess that person doesn't realize that 18 weeks is only about 4 and a half months of a 9 month pregnancy. Which means it's only half through gestation.

There are no recorded events of a 18 week fetus surviving outside the womb. The earliest a fetus has ever survived is birth at 22 weeks.

An 18 week fetus is only about 5 inches long and around 5 oz in weight. All of the organs aren't even fully working yet.

For anyone to say an 18 week fetus can survive outside the womb is ridiculous and nothing but a liar. One who expects everyone to be as stupid about the human gestation process as they are.

You've completely missed the point -- intentionally.

You have no respect for innocent human life

Death Angel, I DO have respect for human life. A child born early as 18 or 21 weeks will spend its lifetime disabled due to being undeveloped at birth. Parents of children born underdeveloped are heroes IMHO when their kids can't sit up alone or feed themselves or speak their whole lifelong. But the irony is, these kids are born with pre-existing conditions, and since their parents have no choice but to lobby for outside help with medical bills, they become 'welfare queens' and scorned. Even as we post there are 7 or 8 Republican States that are suing to restore the right to deny or charge usury for pre-existing medical conditions.

I do not understand this reverence for pre-birth that changes to scorn for that very same individual if it needs medical help or food, shelter, clothing, education after birth.....

A fetus that's born at 18 or 21 weeks doesn't live. It dies. It doesn't have a lifetime of disabilities.

It dies.

The organs aren't even fully working at 18 weeks.

The earliest a fetus has survived is 22 weeks birth. And just a couple have. 99.9% of them born that early die.

 

[Darkwind]

THE DAILYWIRE ^ | May 21, 2019

David Daleiden

Journalists David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt, who exposed suspect dealings at taxpayer-funded abortion mill Planned Parenthood via undercover videos, were denied a request to halt criminal prosecution, a press release from The Thomas More Society said on Friday.

Ocasio-Cortez: There'd Be 'As Many Planned Parenthood Clinics' As Post Offices If Male Politicians Could Get Pregnant

(See video in link at source)

Last month, the California Supreme Court issued a stay in the high-profile case based on "political bias and selective prosecution." But now the case is moving forward.

Daleiden and Merritt were hit with 15 felony charges in March of 2017 for their undercover work. The charges were widely decried for their threat to journalists, including by the left-wing Los Angeles Times. "Felony charges are a disturbing overreach for the duo behind the Planned Parenthood sting videos," a headline for the outlet warned.

Vice President and Senior Counsel at the Thomas More Society Peter Breen, who is part of Mr. Daleiden’s legal team, blasted the denial to cease prosecution.

"This decision to deny David Daleiden’s Petition for Review means that [California Attorney General] Xavier Becerra, as Planned Parenthood's prosecutor-in-chief, will be able to continue his unconstitutional harassment of David, bringing charges against him that don't pass the 'red face test,'" said Breen.

AG Becerra is an ally of Planned Parenthood; he took over for now-presidential contender Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA). Live Action reports on the potential conflict of interest:

Becerra has publicly promised to “stand with Planned Parenthood,” and both he and his predecessor, now Senator Kamala Harris, have received thousands of dollars in campaign donations from the pro-abortion organization. Both Harris and Becerra maintained their close relationship with Planned Parenthood and its entities even after proceeding with the investigation against Daleiden and Merritt. According to Daleiden’s representation, the Thomas More Society, Planned Parenthood even sponsored and hosted Becerra’s election night victory party.

---snip ---

Videos from Daleiden and Merritt, then working for the Center for Medical Progress, shook the country in 2015. Americans saw parts of unborn babies killed by abortion and witnessed Planned Parenthood executives appear to haggle over prices of said body parts. Planned Parenthood, however, claimed they are merely being reimbursed for the costs of prepping and transferring the body parts.

"Daleiden, along with co-conspirator Sandra Merritt, used manufactured identities and a fictitious bioresearch company to meet women's healthcare providers and covertly record the private discussions they initiated," Becerra alleged, according to the Christian Post.

"The right to privacy is a cornerstone of California's Constitution, and a right that is foundational in a free democratic society … We will not tolerate the criminal recording of confidential conversations," he added.

"The public knows the real criminals are Planned Parenthood and their business partners like StemExpress and DV Biologics — currently being prosecuted in California — who have harvested and sold aborted baby body parts for profit for years in direct violation of state and federal law," Daleiden contended after charges were handed down.

It has also been determined by a federal appellate court that videos from the Center for Medical Progress were not "deceptively edited," as claimed by the pro-abortion Left.

As noted by Live Action, "The court will now reschedule a preliminary hearing as the case against Merritt moves forward. During this hearing, Becerra will present evidence to try and convince the judge that Merritt and Daleiden should stand trial before a jury on fifteen felony charges related to their undercover videos."

---------------

Let's say a crisis pregnancy center was coercing women to give birth so they could make a profit through black market adoption or something equally horrible. And some pro-choice journalists exposed this through secret recordings.

Does anyone believe those journalists would have been anything but heroes? Would they have even been charged at all, let alone with 15 felonies?

Just like all the emails that showed how Hillary and the DNC conspired to give her the nomination. The only thing the DemonRATS were angry about was who released the emails.

The purpose of this lawsuit is to wear down the journalists who exposed PP and to bankrupt them so that nobody else dares to expose PP as the traffickers in death that they are.

Some of the replies to this thread are precise examples of cats and dogs recursively ad infinitum chasing their own tales. The radical left indoctrinates, on one hand on this issue, claim moral high ground on the basis of ultimate women's rights while attempting to scream down the evil of Alabama's new law and encourage women and that state's employees not to follow it because: it's a bad law, according to them. Here those same voices would scream down any who would consider defiance of what is clearly a bad (anti-first amendment) law--for the cause of journalism and truth, one based on inane technicality and semantic fine print. Predictably, these posters care only about laws which protect, justify or advance their ideology. Yet another fine, contemporary example of justification (for any crime or insanity against the human race) being the fundamental ethos of the American Left.

Yet you defend laws that require individuals to yield their sovereignty over their own bodies to outside groups that have a specific ideology, an ideology that this individual does not subscribe to. A person who is pregnant still has freedom of choice as to her religion and what ideology she makes the decision to adopt.. Does she not?

No one is violating a woman's sovereignty over her body. She is free to not get pregnant all day long.

An individual is free to exercise his or her sovereignty over his or her body at all times, with or without a pregnancy occurring within it. Can you force someone to be circumcised or have a vasectomy? No. You cannot.

A man's foreskin or testicles are not independent life.

I have sovereignty over My body and that control does NOT mean that I can use My body to kill another human being. We have laws for that, they are called murder.

 

[satrebil]

An individual is free to exercise his or her sovereignty over his or her body at all times, with or without a pregnancy occurring within it.

Bullshit. Why can't I sell a kidney? And why can't someone buy it from me?

 

[Faun]

An individual is free to exercise his or her sovereignty over his or her body at all times, with or without a pregnancy occurring within it.

Bullshit. Why can't I sell a kidney? And why can't someone buy it from me?

Because the law doesn't want to encourage others to cut you up and sell off your body parts.

 

[Lysistrata]

THE DAILYWIRE ^ | May 21, 2019

David Daleiden

Journalists David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt, who exposed suspect dealings at taxpayer-funded abortion mill Planned Parenthood via undercover videos, were denied a request to halt criminal prosecution, a press release from The Thomas More Society said on Friday.

Ocasio-Cortez: There'd Be 'As Many Planned Parenthood Clinics' As Post Offices If Male Politicians Could Get Pregnant

(See video in link at source)

Last month, the California Supreme Court issued a stay in the high-profile case based on "political bias and selective prosecution." But now the case is moving forward.

Daleiden and Merritt were hit with 15 felony charges in March of 2017 for their undercover work. The charges were widely decried for their threat to journalists, including by the left-wing Los Angeles Times. "Felony charges are a disturbing overreach for the duo behind the Planned Parenthood sting videos," a headline for the outlet warned.

Vice President and Senior Counsel at the Thomas More Society Peter Breen, who is part of Mr. Daleiden’s legal team, blasted the denial to cease prosecution.

"This decision to deny David Daleiden’s Petition for Review means that [California Attorney General] Xavier Becerra, as Planned Parenthood's prosecutor-in-chief, will be able to continue his unconstitutional harassment of David, bringing charges against him that don't pass the 'red face test,'" said Breen.

AG Becerra is an ally of Planned Parenthood; he took over for now-presidential contender Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA). Live Action reports on the potential conflict of interest:

Becerra has publicly promised to “stand with Planned Parenthood,” and both he and his predecessor, now Senator Kamala Harris, have received thousands of dollars in campaign donations from the pro-abortion organization. Both Harris and Becerra maintained their close relationship with Planned Parenthood and its entities even after proceeding with the investigation against Daleiden and Merritt. According to Daleiden’s representation, the Thomas More Society, Planned Parenthood even sponsored and hosted Becerra’s election night victory party.

---snip ---

Videos from Daleiden and Merritt, then working for the Center for Medical Progress, shook the country in 2015. Americans saw parts of unborn babies killed by abortion and witnessed Planned Parenthood executives appear to haggle over prices of said body parts. Planned Parenthood, however, claimed they are merely being reimbursed for the costs of prepping and transferring the body parts.

"Daleiden, along with co-conspirator Sandra Merritt, used manufactured identities and a fictitious bioresearch company to meet women's healthcare providers and covertly record the private discussions they initiated," Becerra alleged, according to the Christian Post.

"The right to privacy is a cornerstone of California's Constitution, and a right that is foundational in a free democratic society … We will not tolerate the criminal recording of confidential conversations," he added.

"The public knows the real criminals are Planned Parenthood and their business partners like StemExpress and DV Biologics — currently being prosecuted in California — who have harvested and sold aborted baby body parts for profit for years in direct violation of state and federal law," Daleiden contended after charges were handed down.

It has also been determined by a federal appellate court that videos from the Center for Medical Progress were not "deceptively edited," as claimed by the pro-abortion Left.

As noted by Live Action, "The court will now reschedule a preliminary hearing as the case against Merritt moves forward. During this hearing, Becerra will present evidence to try and convince the judge that Merritt and Daleiden should stand trial before a jury on fifteen felony charges related to their undercover videos."

---------------

Let's say a crisis pregnancy center was coercing women to give birth so they could make a profit through black market adoption or something equally horrible. And some pro-choice journalists exposed this through secret recordings.

Does anyone believe those journalists would have been anything but heroes? Would they have even been charged at all, let alone with 15 felonies?

Just like all the emails that showed how Hillary and the DNC conspired to give her the nomination. The only thing the DemonRATS were angry about was who released the emails.

The purpose of this lawsuit is to wear down the journalists who exposed PP and to bankrupt them so that nobody else dares to expose PP as the traffickers in death that they are.

Some of the replies to this thread are precise examples of cats and dogs recursively ad infinitum chasing their own tales. The radical left indoctrinates, on one hand on this issue, claim moral high ground on the basis of ultimate women's rights while attempting to scream down the evil of Alabama's new law and encourage women and that state's employees not to follow it because: it's a bad law, according to them. Here those same voices would scream down any who would consider defiance of what is clearly a bad (anti-first amendment) law--for the cause of journalism and truth, one based on inane technicality and semantic fine print. Predictably, these posters care only about laws which protect, justify or advance their ideology. Yet another fine, contemporary example of justification (for any crime or insanity against the human race) being the fundamental ethos of the American Left.

Yet you defend laws that require individuals to yield their sovereignty over their own bodies to outside groups that have a specific ideology, an ideology that this individual does not subscribe to. A person who is pregnant still has freedom of choice as to her religion and what ideology she makes the decision to adopt.. Does she not?

No one is violating a woman's sovereignty over her body. She is free to not get pregnant all day long.

An individual is free to exercise his or her sovereignty over his or her body at all times, with or without a pregnancy occurring within it. Can you force someone to be circumcised or have a vasectomy? No. You cannot.

A man's foreskin or testicles are not independent life.

I have sovereignty over My body and that control does NOT mean that I can use My body to kill another human being. We have laws for that, they are called murder.

A human being does not have to live inside another's body. I see no one willing and able to take an embryo or fetus away and develop it and raise it into a human being if its owner does not want it. Get your laboratories together so that the embryo or fetus can be safely transferred, or maybe a standby uterus could take them.

Even with infants brought full-term in the uterus of women who do not want them and go through labor to deliver them, no one seems to offer a clue as to where these infants will go and who is going to care for them and raise them to adulthood. I've asked this question several times on USMB, and I have never gotten an answer.

But this all begs the question of what these two 'journalists" did. Let their case go forward in court and the evidence be presented to the public as to whether they committed the felonies for which they are charged or they did not.

 

[satrebil]

An individual is free to exercise his or her sovereignty over his or her body at all times, with or without a pregnancy occurring within it.

Bullshit. Why can't I sell a kidney? And why can't someone buy it from me?

Because the law doesn't want to encourage others to cut you up and sell off your body parts.

And suddenly "my body, my choice" goes right out the window.

There is no consistency in your arguments whatsoever. Tool.

 

[Faun]

An individual is free to exercise his or her sovereignty over his or her body at all times, with or without a pregnancy occurring within it.

Bullshit. Why can't I sell a kidney? And why can't someone buy it from me?

Because the law doesn't want to encourage others to cut you up and sell off your body parts.

And suddenly "my body, my choice" goes right out the window.

There is no consistency in your arguments whatsoever. Tool.

WTF? A woman terminating her pregnancy is not cutting off part of her body. So how does that compare with your body parts being cut off?

 

[satrebil]

An individual is free to exercise his or her sovereignty over his or her body at all times, with or without a pregnancy occurring within it.

Bullshit. Why can't I sell a kidney? And why can't someone buy it from me?

Because the law doesn't want to encourage others to cut you up and sell off your body parts.

And suddenly "my body, my choice" goes right out the window.

There is no consistency in your arguments whatsoever. Tool.

WTF? A woman terminating her pregnancy is not cutting off part of her body. So how does that compare with your body parts being cut off?

As promised: Moron.

 

[Faun]

An individual is free to exercise his or her sovereignty over his or her body at all times, with or without a pregnancy occurring within it.

Bullshit. Why can't I sell a kidney? And why can't someone buy it from me?

Because the law doesn't want to encourage others to cut you up and sell off your body parts.

And suddenly "my body, my choice" goes right out the window.

There is no consistency in your arguments whatsoever. Tool.

WTF? A woman terminating her pregnancy is not cutting off part of her body. So how does that compare with your body parts being cut off?

As promised: Moron.

Your concession is graciously accepted.

 

[satrebil]

Bullshit. Why can't I sell a kidney? And why can't someone buy it from me?

Because the law doesn't want to encourage others to cut you up and sell off your body parts.

And suddenly "my body, my choice" goes right out the window.

There is no consistency in your arguments whatsoever. Tool.

WTF? A woman terminating her pregnancy is not cutting off part of her body. So how does that compare with your body parts being cut off?

As promised: Moron.

Your concession is graciously accepted.

Moron.

 

[EGR one]

Wow this is too much to read.
There’s a difference between journalism and trying to set people up.

So, in your humble opinion, gottcha questions at presidential news conferences are not journalism?

 

[EGR one]

THE DAILYWIRE ^ | May 21, 2019

David Daleiden

Journalists David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt, who exposed suspect dealings at taxpayer-funded abortion mill Planned Parenthood via undercover videos, were denied a request to halt criminal prosecution, a press release from The Thomas More Society said on Friday.

Ocasio-Cortez: There'd Be 'As Many Planned Parenthood Clinics' As Post Offices If Male Politicians Could Get Pregnant

(See video in link at source)

Last month, the California Supreme Court issued a stay in the high-profile case based on "political bias and selective prosecution." But now the case is moving forward.

Daleiden and Merritt were hit with 15 felony charges in March of 2017 for their undercover work. The charges were widely decried for their threat to journalists, including by the left-wing Los Angeles Times. "Felony charges are a disturbing overreach for the duo behind the Planned Parenthood sting videos," a headline for the outlet warned.

Vice President and Senior Counsel at the Thomas More Society Peter Breen, who is part of Mr. Daleiden’s legal team, blasted the denial to cease prosecution.

"This decision to deny David Daleiden’s Petition for Review means that [California Attorney General] Xavier Becerra, as Planned Parenthood's prosecutor-in-chief, will be able to continue his unconstitutional harassment of David, bringing charges against him that don't pass the 'red face test,'" said Breen.

AG Becerra is an ally of Planned Parenthood; he took over for now-presidential contender Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA). Live Action reports on the potential conflict of interest:

Becerra has publicly promised to “stand with Planned Parenthood,” and both he and his predecessor, now Senator Kamala Harris, have received thousands of dollars in campaign donations from the pro-abortion organization. Both Harris and Becerra maintained their close relationship with Planned Parenthood and its entities even after proceeding with the investigation against Daleiden and Merritt. According to Daleiden’s representation, the Thomas More Society, Planned Parenthood even sponsored and hosted Becerra’s election night victory party.

---snip ---

Videos from Daleiden and Merritt, then working for the Center for Medical Progress, shook the country in 2015. Americans saw parts of unborn babies killed by abortion and witnessed Planned Parenthood executives appear to haggle over prices of said body parts. Planned Parenthood, however, claimed they are merely being reimbursed for the costs of prepping and transferring the body parts.

"Daleiden, along with co-conspirator Sandra Merritt, used manufactured identities and a fictitious bioresearch company to meet women's healthcare providers and covertly record the private discussions they initiated," Becerra alleged, according to the Christian Post.

"The right to privacy is a cornerstone of California's Constitution, and a right that is foundational in a free democratic society … We will not tolerate the criminal recording of confidential conversations," he added.

"The public knows the real criminals are Planned Parenthood and their business partners like StemExpress and DV Biologics — currently being prosecuted in California — who have harvested and sold aborted baby body parts for profit for years in direct violation of state and federal law," Daleiden contended after charges were handed down.

It has also been determined by a federal appellate court that videos from the Center for Medical Progress were not "deceptively edited," as claimed by the pro-abortion Left.

As noted by Live Action, "The court will now reschedule a preliminary hearing as the case against Merritt moves forward. During this hearing, Becerra will present evidence to try and convince the judge that Merritt and Daleiden should stand trial before a jury on fifteen felony charges related to their undercover videos."

---------------

Let's say a crisis pregnancy center was coercing women to give birth so they could make a profit through black market adoption or something equally horrible. And some pro-choice journalists exposed this through secret recordings.

Does anyone believe those journalists would have been anything but heroes? Would they have even been charged at all, let alone with 15 felonies?

Just like all the emails that showed how Hillary and the DNC conspired to give her the nomination. The only thing the DemonRATS were angry about was who released the emails.

The purpose of this lawsuit is to wear down the journalists who exposed PP and to bankrupt them so that nobody else dares to expose PP as the traffickers in death that they are.

Some of the replies to this thread are precise examples of cats and dogs recursively ad infinitum chasing their own tales. The radical left indoctrinates, on one hand on this issue, claim moral high ground on the basis of ultimate women's rights while attempting to scream down the evil of Alabama's new law and encourage women and that state's employees not to follow it because: it's a bad law, according to them. Here those same voices would scream down any who would consider defiance of what is clearly a bad (anti-first amendment) law--for the cause of journalism and truth, one based on inane technicality and semantic fine print. Predictably, these posters care only about laws which protect, justify or advance their ideology. Yet another fine, contemporary example of justification (for any crime or insanity against the human race) being the fundamental ethos of the American Left.

The guy broke the law. There is no reason not to prosecute him.

What law did he break?

 

[airplanemechanic]

THE DAILYWIRE ^ | May 21, 2019

David Daleiden

Journalists David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt, who exposed suspect dealings at taxpayer-funded abortion mill Planned Parenthood via undercover videos, were denied a request to halt criminal prosecution, a press release from The Thomas More Society said on Friday.

Ocasio-Cortez: There'd Be 'As Many Planned Parenthood Clinics' As Post Offices If Male Politicians Could Get Pregnant

(See video in link at source)

Last month, the California Supreme Court issued a stay in the high-profile case based on "political bias and selective prosecution." But now the case is moving forward.

Daleiden and Merritt were hit with 15 felony charges in March of 2017 for their undercover work. The charges were widely decried for their threat to journalists, including by the left-wing Los Angeles Times. "Felony charges are a disturbing overreach for the duo behind the Planned Parenthood sting videos," a headline for the outlet warned.

Vice President and Senior Counsel at the Thomas More Society Peter Breen, who is part of Mr. Daleiden’s legal team, blasted the denial to cease prosecution.

"This decision to deny David Daleiden’s Petition for Review means that [California Attorney General] Xavier Becerra, as Planned Parenthood's prosecutor-in-chief, will be able to continue his unconstitutional harassment of David, bringing charges against him that don't pass the 'red face test,'" said Breen.

AG Becerra is an ally of Planned Parenthood; he took over for now-presidential contender Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA). Live Action reports on the potential conflict of interest:

Becerra has publicly promised to “stand with Planned Parenthood,” and both he and his predecessor, now Senator Kamala Harris, have received thousands of dollars in campaign donations from the pro-abortion organization. Both Harris and Becerra maintained their close relationship with Planned Parenthood and its entities even after proceeding with the investigation against Daleiden and Merritt. According to Daleiden’s representation, the Thomas More Society, Planned Parenthood even sponsored and hosted Becerra’s election night victory party.

---snip ---

Videos from Daleiden and Merritt, then working for the Center for Medical Progress, shook the country in 2015. Americans saw parts of unborn babies killed by abortion and witnessed Planned Parenthood executives appear to haggle over prices of said body parts. Planned Parenthood, however, claimed they are merely being reimbursed for the costs of prepping and transferring the body parts.

"Daleiden, along with co-conspirator Sandra Merritt, used manufactured identities and a fictitious bioresearch company to meet women's healthcare providers and covertly record the private discussions they initiated," Becerra alleged, according to the Christian Post.

"The right to privacy is a cornerstone of California's Constitution, and a right that is foundational in a free democratic society … We will not tolerate the criminal recording of confidential conversations," he added.

"The public knows the real criminals are Planned Parenthood and their business partners like StemExpress and DV Biologics — currently being prosecuted in California — who have harvested and sold aborted baby body parts for profit for years in direct violation of state and federal law," Daleiden contended after charges were handed down.

It has also been determined by a federal appellate court that videos from the Center for Medical Progress were not "deceptively edited," as claimed by the pro-abortion Left.

As noted by Live Action, "The court will now reschedule a preliminary hearing as the case against Merritt moves forward. During this hearing, Becerra will present evidence to try and convince the judge that Merritt and Daleiden should stand trial before a jury on fifteen felony charges related to their undercover videos."

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Let's say a crisis pregnancy center was coercing women to give birth so they could make a profit through black market adoption or something equally horrible. And some pro-choice journalists exposed this through secret recordings.

Does anyone believe those journalists would have been anything but heroes? Would they have even been charged at all, let alone with 15 felonies?

Just like all the emails that showed how Hillary and the DNC conspired to give her the nomination. The only thing the DemonRATS were angry about was who released the emails.

The purpose of this lawsuit is to wear down the journalists who exposed PP and to bankrupt them so that nobody else dares to expose PP as the traffickers in death that they are.

What's your point? That journalists are above the law and should be allowed to break it?

I don't know, do they have a D or an R after their name? That seems to determine whether you care or not.

 

[Faun]

Because the law doesn't want to encourage others to cut you up and sell off your body parts.

And suddenly "my body, my choice" goes right out the window.

There is no consistency in your arguments whatsoever. Tool.

WTF? A woman terminating her pregnancy is not cutting off part of her body. So how does that compare with your body parts being cut off?

As promised: Moron.

Your concession is graciously accepted.

Moron.

 

[Rustic]

Wow this is too much to read.
There’s a difference between journalism and trying to set people up.

...Baby butchery is too profitable to ignore by progressives//Planned parenthood

 

[Faun]

THE DAILYWIRE ^ | May 21, 2019

David Daleiden

Journalists David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt, who exposed suspect dealings at taxpayer-funded abortion mill Planned Parenthood via undercover videos, were denied a request to halt criminal prosecution, a press release from The Thomas More Society said on Friday.

Ocasio-Cortez: There'd Be 'As Many Planned Parenthood Clinics' As Post Offices If Male Politicians Could Get Pregnant

(See video in link at source)

Last month, the California Supreme Court issued a stay in the high-profile case based on "political bias and selective prosecution." But now the case is moving forward.

Daleiden and Merritt were hit with 15 felony charges in March of 2017 for their undercover work. The charges were widely decried for their threat to journalists, including by the left-wing Los Angeles Times. "Felony charges are a disturbing overreach for the duo behind the Planned Parenthood sting videos," a headline for the outlet warned.

Vice President and Senior Counsel at the Thomas More Society Peter Breen, who is part of Mr. Daleiden’s legal team, blasted the denial to cease prosecution.

"This decision to deny David Daleiden’s Petition for Review means that [California Attorney General] Xavier Becerra, as Planned Parenthood's prosecutor-in-chief, will be able to continue his unconstitutional harassment of David, bringing charges against him that don't pass the 'red face test,'" said Breen.

AG Becerra is an ally of Planned Parenthood; he took over for now-presidential contender Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA). Live Action reports on the potential conflict of interest:

Becerra has publicly promised to “stand with Planned Parenthood,” and both he and his predecessor, now Senator Kamala Harris, have received thousands of dollars in campaign donations from the pro-abortion organization. Both Harris and Becerra maintained their close relationship with Planned Parenthood and its entities even after proceeding with the investigation against Daleiden and Merritt. According to Daleiden’s representation, the Thomas More Society, Planned Parenthood even sponsored and hosted Becerra’s election night victory party.

---snip ---

Videos from Daleiden and Merritt, then working for the Center for Medical Progress, shook the country in 2015. Americans saw parts of unborn babies killed by abortion and witnessed Planned Parenthood executives appear to haggle over prices of said body parts. Planned Parenthood, however, claimed they are merely being reimbursed for the costs of prepping and transferring the body parts.

"Daleiden, along with co-conspirator Sandra Merritt, used manufactured identities and a fictitious bioresearch company to meet women's healthcare providers and covertly record the private discussions they initiated," Becerra alleged, according to the Christian Post.

"The right to privacy is a cornerstone of California's Constitution, and a right that is foundational in a free democratic society … We will not tolerate the criminal recording of confidential conversations," he added.

"The public knows the real criminals are Planned Parenthood and their business partners like StemExpress and DV Biologics — currently being prosecuted in California — who have harvested and sold aborted baby body parts for profit for years in direct violation of state and federal law," Daleiden contended after charges were handed down.

It has also been determined by a federal appellate court that videos from the Center for Medical Progress were not "deceptively edited," as claimed by the pro-abortion Left.

As noted by Live Action, "The court will now reschedule a preliminary hearing as the case against Merritt moves forward. During this hearing, Becerra will present evidence to try and convince the judge that Merritt and Daleiden should stand trial before a jury on fifteen felony charges related to their undercover videos."

---------------

Let's say a crisis pregnancy center was coercing women to give birth so they could make a profit through black market adoption or something equally horrible. And some pro-choice journalists exposed this through secret recordings.

Does anyone believe those journalists would have been anything but heroes? Would they have even been charged at all, let alone with 15 felonies?

Just like all the emails that showed how Hillary and the DNC conspired to give her the nomination. The only thing the DemonRATS were angry about was who released the emails.

The purpose of this lawsuit is to wear down the journalists who exposed PP and to bankrupt them so that nobody else dares to expose PP as the traffickers in death that they are.

Some of the replies to this thread are precise examples of cats and dogs recursively ad infinitum chasing their own tales. The radical left indoctrinates, on one hand on this issue, claim moral high ground on the basis of ultimate women's rights while attempting to scream down the evil of Alabama's new law and encourage women and that state's employees not to follow it because: it's a bad law, according to them. Here those same voices would scream down any who would consider defiance of what is clearly a bad (anti-first amendment) law--for the cause of journalism and truth, one based on inane technicality and semantic fine print. Predictably, these posters care only about laws which protect, justify or advance their ideology. Yet another fine, contemporary example of justification (for any crime or insanity against the human race) being the fundamental ethos of the American Left.

The guy broke the law. There is no reason not to prosecute him.

What law did he break?

He recorded someone without their consent in a state which legally requires all parties being recorded to consent to being recorded.

California Penal Code §632