Yeah, these people are definitely the problem, not the soulless organization they exposed for harvesting & selling fetal organs. https://t.co/NxhRsDAQlw
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) March 29, 2017
Breaking news overnight out of California where prosecutors announced charges against David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt of the Center for Medical Progress over their videos exposing Planned Parenthood and the selling of baby parts:
BREAKING: Anti-abortion activists who made undercover videos of Planned Parenthood talks charged with 15 felonies in California.
— The Associated Press (@AP) March 29, 2017
From the AP:
LOS ANGELES (AP) — California prosecutors on Tuesday charged two anti-abortion activists who made undercover videos of themselves trying to buy fetal tissue from Planned Parenthood with 15 felonies, saying they invaded the privacy of medical providers by filming without consent.
The charges against David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt of the Center for Medical Progress come eight months after similar charges were dropped in Texas.
State Attorney General Xavier Becerra, a longtime Congressional Democrat who took over the investigation in January, said in a statement that the state “will not tolerate the criminal recording of conversations.”
Prosecutors say Daleiden, of Davis, California, and Merritt, of San Jose, filmed 14 people without permission between October 2013 and July 2015 in Los Angeles, San Francisco and El Dorado counties. One felony count was filed for each person. The 15th was for criminal conspiracy to invade privacy.
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Needless to say, CMP and the filmmakers will fight the charges. “BRING IT ON!!”:
The last time @PPact colluded with political cronies to persecute citizen journalists, both charges AND corrupt DA thrown out! BRING IT ON!!
— David Daleiden (@daviddaleiden) March 29, 2017
Bogus charges. @PPact @CecileRichards said under oath, taped convos NOT "confidential"…we call her as 1st witness?https://t.co/0Sfd1zkCEK
— David Daleiden (@daviddaleiden) March 29, 2017
CMP released this statement:
The bogus charges from Planned Parenthood’s political cronies are fake news. They tried the same collusion with corrupt officials in Houston, TX and failed: both the charges and the DA were thrown out. 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. We look forward to showing the entire world what is on our yet-unreleased video tapes of Planned Parenthood’s criminal baby body parts enterprise, in vindication of the First Amendment rights of all.
And keep an eye on how the media doesn’t cover this today:
https://twitter.com/SethAMandel/status/846921737417699330
https://twitter.com/SethAMandel/status/846923167453122560
https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/846924898211692546
It’s only journalism when it’s an issue they care about.
And here’s Ben Shapiro with an explanation of the “legal nonsense” behind California’s decision to prosecute:
Here's what you need to know about the legal nonsense CA just dumped on the undercover reporters who exposed @PPact. https://t.co/Ljrf2DILnH
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) March 29, 2017
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