#PPact Sues Over #BabyParts Videos

by Kim D.

Last year The Center for Medical Progress released a series of undercover investigative videos which showed Planned Parenthood doctors and executives discuss the harvesting and potential sale of fetal tissue from performed abortions. The result was damning for the organization in regard to public perception and potential loss of congressional funding as Planned Parenthood underwent investigation for possible illegal activity, namely profiting from the sale of aborted baby parts.

This week, Planned Parenthood struck back, officially targeting The Center for Medical Progress in court.

Planned Parenthood's initial filing in the case asserts that Dalaiden and other CMP operatives fraudulently got access to Planned Parenthood facilities by using fake IDs and hiding behind corporations that didn't exist. In California, Washington state and Maryland, Planned Parenthood claims, the filming of the videos themselves was illegal, because those states require two-party consent to record a conversation. CMP personnel also created a fake tissue procurement company, BioMax, to get access to Planned Parenthood conferences, according to documents included with the lawsuit. Planned Parenthood claims that the fake IDs, surreptitious filming and fake tissue procurement company amounts to an illegal conspiracy.

So . . . the subject of the videos isn't the problem, only the method through which the videos were recorded. The Center for Medical Progress released a counter statement and another video:

"Planned Parenthood is under investigation by the United States Congress and multiple law enforcement agencies, while their business is drying up and the public is turning against their barbaric abortion for baby parts trade. Now they are filing a frivolous lawsuit in retaliation for CMP’s First Amendment investigative journalism that has done nothing more than tell the truth about Planned Parenthood’s lawless operations. This last-ditch move of desperation is going to expose all of the sordid dealings of the California Planned Parenthood affiliates to the light of the legal system and the public will see them for the corrupt abortion and baby body parts profiteers that they really are."