A legal expert argues that two
undercover pro-life citizen reporters who are facing felony charges aren’t guilty
of violating California’s privacy laws.
David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt
secretly recorded ranking officials of Planned Parenthood (PP) as well as other
abortion industry workers discussing selling limbs, organs, and tissue from
aborted babies. [read my previous blog
postings: April 27, 2016 – “Panel Proves Planned Parenthood Profited” and February
10, 2016 – “Receipts Reveal that Planned ‘Murderhood’ Sold Baby Body Parts”]
California Attorney General Xavier
Bacerra has lodged 15-felony charges against Daleiden and Merritt for violating
his state’s privacy laws. But Dr. Jenna
Ellis, an assistant professor of legal studies at Colorado Christian
University, tells OneNewsNow those
laws state that privacy is just that. “Many
of the videos not only were recorded in public, at restaurants and so forth,
but the Ninth Circuit has also said that the right to privacy is something that
belongs to an individual, not a corporation,” explains this licensed attorney
who specializes in constitutional law. “And
so Planned Parenthood cannot assert an invasion of privacy for their business practices.”
Ironically, she says, the right of
privacy under those laws would be owned by the preborn child – and
confidentiality would come into play only if the content of the conversation is
private and personal to the individual being recorded. “So this would have to be something that was
private and personal to the actual abortionists themselves rather than about
the business practices or anything else regarding Planned Parenthood,” the professor
notes. “So this shouldn’t apply at all
to David Daleiden or Sandra Merritt.”
Ellis says the charges are an over-reach
on the part of the attorney general, that California is a progressive/activist
state, and that the charges have been brought “more as an aggressive agenda
tactic rather than actually supporting what California law says.”
If any law is going to be enforced,
let it be the one that prohibits federal tax dollars being spent on abortions …
the primary function of PP. [read my
blog posting of March 31, 2017 – “Planned ‘Murderhood’ and the Myth of the 3%”]
Rev.
Dr. Kenneth L. Beale, Jr.
Chaplain
(Colonel-Ret), U.S. Army
Pastor,
Ft. Snelling Memorial Chapel
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