Federal Judge ADMITS: 1st Amendment Stops Planned Parenthood and NAF From Censoring New Undercover Footage
This is a Great Victory for the 1st Amendment
I got this email from the Center for Medical Progress this morning, and just had to pass it on. It’s been a long, painful, 9 year struggle for David Daleiden against the dark forces of evil, but he’s finally gaining some traction. Thanks to Marco Rubio for having the courage to ask the DOJ to investigate Planned Parenthood's sale of aborted baby body parts, and for the HHS-Office of Inspector General to expand their existing investigation of Planned Parenthood. I made a copy of the whole email with no revisions. David Daleiden needs our support to go on to victory. Planned Parenthood’s totally biased California judge had no choice but to ADMIT the 1st Amendment protects CMP’s reporting! Their undercover videos caught leaders in Planned Parenthood red-handed, and now the videos are available to the public, after being squelched and buried by PP and that biased judge for 9 whole years.
"I would agree with the defendants that I can't and shouldn't stop Mr. Daleiden or The Center for Medical Progress from doing what they're doing without violating the First Amendment."
—Judge William H. Orrick III, April 15, 2024
Dear Alan,
I almost couldn't believe it when I heard the news after the court hearing last week.
The federal judge from Planned Parenthood San Francisco ADMITTED on the record last week that he does not have the authority under the First Amendment to let Planned Parenthood and their "National Abortion Federation" trade group censor our new undercover footage, released at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's Congressional hearing last month, of Planned Parenthood leaders selling aborted baby body parts.
THIS IS A HUGE VICTORY!
We are still waiting for Judge Orrick's final written ruling. But the Judge's statements at the hearing were pretty clear.
We had to go to back to federal court in San Francisco on Monday, April 15 to fight Planned Parenthood and their "National Abortion Federation" trade group's attempt to have Judge Orrick—who opened, ran, and funded a Planned Parenthood clinic in San Francisco—hold me in CONTEMPT of court for re-posting the new undercover video clips Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene released at her Congressional hearing last month!
It's completely outrageous and obviously unconstitutional. But my First Amendment attorneys at Harmeet Dhillon's highly skilled Dhillon Law Group mounted a top-notch response to PPFA and NAF's outrageous attempt at censoring this new damning and incriminating information (released by Congress into the public record!) about their trafficking and sale of aborted baby body parts.
And the Judge took notice. We could not have deployed this rapid response without your help!
It's clear what Planned Parenthood and NAF are afraid of.
This undercover footage—which they relied on Judge Orrick, their judge from Planned Parenthood San Francisco, to censor for years—implicates PPFA and NAF leadership in selling aborted baby organs for valuable consideration against the law, and using criminal partial-birth abortions to do so.
Selling aborted baby body parts is a federal felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison or a fine of up to $500,000 (42 U.S.C. 289g-2).
The timing of Planned Parenthood's and NAF's demand to Judge Orrick—who opened, operated, and funded a Planned Parenthood clinic and has censored this footage for them for years—to hold me and CMP in contempt of court, could not be clearer.
They didn't move for contempt or takedown of the videos when the Congressional hearing took place on March 19. They know Judge Orrick APPROVED the Congressional subpoena of the undercover footage years ago.
Only after news broke last week that Sen. Marco Rubio has requested the DOJ to investigate Planned Parenthood's sale of aborted baby body parts, and for the HHS-Office of Inspector General to expand their existing investigation, did PPFA and NAF react.
HHS-OIG launched a federal law enforcement investigation of the Planned Parenthood and NAF-supplied fetal tissue bank at the University of Pittsburgh, after CMP reported on FOIA documents where Pitt advertised to the NIH its organ harvesting from babies aborted alive.
Last month, CMP reported on new public records documents we obtained from the University of California that show Planned Parenthood explicitly contracting with the University to sell its "proprietary" aborted fetuses in exchange for the "valuable consideration" of owning the intellectual property the University develops from experimenting on them.
The facts in the documents we uncovered, combined with our chilling new undercover footage, are irrefutable evidence that Planned Parenthood sells baby parts and must face justice under the law.
Your support of our investigative reporting is having a big national impact!
After CMP's undercover videos were released in 2015, two Congressional investigations confirmed the "systemic violations" at Planned Parenthood, a southern California prosecutor shut down two of Planned Parenthood's business partners in a $7.8 million settlement with an admission of guilt, and the U.S. Department of Justice has an ongoing active investigation of Planned Parenthood's baby parts trafficking. In 2021, Planned Parenthood SURRENDERED in federal court in Texas to their termination from state Medicaid based on their wrongdoing found in my undercover video reporting. This spring, Planned Parenthood will face a $1.8 BILLION trial in Texas federal court for selling aborted baby body parts and committing Medicaid fraud.
Instead of coming clean and reforming, Planned Parenthood and their allies have tried to bury the evidence with retaliatory lawsuits to attack the First Amendment and silence anyone who challenges them.
CMP's team of legal experts are working hard to make sure our First Amendment rights and those of all citizen journalists are vindicated, and that those who traffick aborted baby body parts are held equally accountable under the law.
The Center for Medical Progress is a 501(c)3 non-profit and we rely on your generous support to continue producing and releasing video and other evidence from our 30-month-long investigative journalism study on Planned Parenthood’s sale of baby parts. Please consider making a tax-deductible gift of any amount by clicking the button below:
Thank you for being involved, together in the fight,
David Daleiden
Founder & Project Lead
The Center for Medical Progress
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