“I think that there’s something very wrong with this”.
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“We all know the two people who were behind that smear campaign have been indicted by the State of Texas and Planned Parenthood has been cleared of any wrongdoing and so ultimately these pieces of bills are reactionary”, Eskamani said. Daleiden also was indicted on a misdemeanor count related to purchasing human organs that carries up to a year in prison. She posted bail Wednesday.
Daleiden’s attorney compared undercover tactics used by Daleiden’s anti-abortion group, the California-based Center for Medical Progress, to investigations done by the CBS news show 60 Minutes.
At the same time, there are also very, very strong First Amendment concerns which have been raised by law professors who are pro-choice who said if we are going to be prosecuting whistleblowers, if we are going to be prosecuting undercover journalists, we are sending ourselves down a very, very dark path. None of us want to live in a country where journalists can be thrown in jail for decades merely for doing their job.
The chief prosecutor, Britni Cooper, said that District Attorney Devon Anderson has offered Merritt a type of probation.
Kentucky’s newly-elected Gov. Matt Bevin, a staunch opponent of abortion rights, has questioned the legality of abortion services at the Louisville clinic. And the fact that he is here today is a miscarriage of justice …
“We expect when a DA office looks at what this grand jury has rendered in terms of indictment, they won’t go forward”, he said. It’s unclear whether Merritt has accepted or rejected the deal.
California residents David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt created a fake company, BioMax, for a visit to the Houston affiliate of Planned Parenthood a year ago.
“20 percent of women who had previously relied on Planned Parenthood for their Depo Provera injections failed to return for their follow-up injections.”
Nicole Abreo, a 43-year-old Catholic, brought five of her nine kids and urged them to unfurl two banners that read “PP Sells Baby Body Parts”, as the paper whipped in the biting wind.
“Like we say in Texas, they’re all hat and no cattle”, Yates added. “We had it worded as “per consent” because the consent process was the administrative part that we had to do, then we had an overall “administrative fee” for basically working it into the [Planned Parenthood] clinics themselves”.
In case you haven’t heard, Texas officials really do not like Planned Parenthood.
Echoing PP by describing the Center for Medical Progress’ undercover videos as “inflammatory”, a “smear”, “a scam”, and “highly edited”, Ms. Rutgers seems blissfully unaware that the unedited versions are also on the Internet for all to see, and that several independent analysts have determined that the edits didn’t change the content. PP doesn’t deny that the taped conversations did involve their employees. Lawmakers at the state and national level have worked to defund the organization. Daleiden closed his two-minute speech with a statement that jived with the revered standing he seems to have among anti-abortion advocates.
The video features Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast Director of Research Melissa Farrell outlining how the organization creatively receives reimbursement specifically for the babies themselves, above and beyond any administrative costs.
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Dawn Laguens is Executive Vice President and Chief Experience Officer for Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Kelli Stargel, R-Lakeland, Anna Eskamani of Planned Parenthood said the requirements in HB 1411 and SB 1722 are “medically unnecessary” and could close health care clinics that now provide abortion services. “We’re glad they’re being held accountable, and we hope other law enforcement agencies pursue criminal charges as well”.
