The California Superior
Court has issued a narrow temporary restraining order preventing the pro-life group
– Center for Medical Progress (CMP) – from releasing further undercover video
footage taken of three top-level staff of StemExpress (SE). The series of 3-videos released over the month
exposed the alleged harvesting and sale of body parts from aborted babies by
Planned Parenthood (PP) — body parts purchased by SE … which violate federal
law prohibiting the sale and trafficking of human tissue.
While PP has claimed
that the fees paid to them by SE merely cover their costs, and fall within the
bounds of the law, the video footage released (so far) has appeared to show PP
employees seeking profit as part of the transaction. In the most recent video, a PP affiliate vice
president was caught on video describing how the abortion organization can
maximize profit. “I think a per-item
thing works a little better, just because we can see how much we can get out of
it,” Dr. Savita Sinde said of the aborted baby.
The Associated Press, which broke the news about the court order,
reports that the undercover videos of the SE staff were filmed at a restaurant in
May.
It is unclear just how
significant an impact the court order will have on the release of subsequent
videos in the series. David Daleiden,
the lead researcher with CMP, has said that at least nine more videos are
slated for release.
The restraining order
reportedly only pertains to the footage of the SE employees – meaning that any
other footage, including that featuring PP employees, can still be released as
planned.
In an exclusive comment
to LifeSiteNews after the release of
the court order, Daleiden said that, at the end of the day, what happened in
the courtroom may actually be a victory for the pro-life group. “The ruling is very narrow, concerning only
one specific meeting, and it is temporary and contingent pending further
litigation,” he said. “The judge
actually threw out completely the part of StemExpress' case where they were
asking to suppress the documents on their baby parts sales. It was a much better day for us than it was
for them and Planned Parenthood.”
In a statement released
after the ruling, SE stated that they sought the restraining order “on the
grounds that CMP and Daleiden violated California’s anti-wiretapping law under
Penal Code § 632 (Invasion of Privacy Act).”
The spokesman for SE said, “We will continue to pursue all available
legal remedies against CMP and Daleiden.” However, Daleiden told LifeSiteNews that SEs’ complaints are groundless. “The recordings in California complied with
the California law,” he said. “The California
law only applies to ‘confidential communications’ and does not include
conversations held in public that anyone can overhear. There is significant case law on this point as
well.”
In a separate statement
released after the court ruling, CMP accused SE of using “meritless litigation”
to “cover-up this illegal baby parts trade, suppress free speech, and silence
the citizen press reporting on issues of burning concern to the American
public.”
The AP reports that the restraining order will remain in place until a
hearing on August 19.
The videos released by
CMP to date have amassed millions of views, and have been featured in countless
media nationally and internationally.
Perhaps even more striking than the footage appearing to demonstrate
that PP is profiting from the sale of the aborted baby body parts, has been the
footage showing the cavalier manner in which the PP employees have spoken about
the aborted babies.
In an interview with LifeSiteNews, Fr. Frank Pavone (one of
the pro-life leaders behind the release of the video series) said, “When an
abortionist dehumanizes the baby that he or she is about to kill, the
abortionist also dehumanizes himself. And
this is what we are seeing in these people. We see it in Deborah Nucatola sipping the wine
and eating the salad and talking about the body parts.” Pavone said one of the main objectives of the
video series was to humanize the unborn baby. “When people see and hear terms like eyes,
livers, hearts it’s like – What are we talking about here? This is ghoulish disgusting activity.”
Since the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court Decision in
1973, many of us have known there is blood on the hands of PP. Now, thank God, they have been caught
‘red-handed.’ For years, the media has
kept the American people from seeing the brutality of abortion. Maybe, just maybe, this nation will come to
recognize that our tax-dollars is blood money in the hands of barbaric Planned
‘Murderhood’! This is not a war on
women’s healthcare, but a rescue of innocent lives.
Rev.
Dr. Kenneth L. Beale, Jr.
Chaplain
(Colonel-Ret), U.S. Army
Pastor, Ft. Snelling Memorial Chapel
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