A federal judge has ordered the removal from YouTube and elsewhere of the latest undercover video by the pro-life group Center for Medical Progress (CMP), showing abortionists and Planned Parenthood executives in grisly conversation about aborted babies, including frank comments about selling the tissue and body parts of their murdered pre-born victims.
The New American included the video in its May 25 report on CMP’s ongoing campaign to expose the activities of Planned Parenthood, and found the YouTube video quickly blocked from publication later the same day.
In issuing his latest order, U.S. District Judge William Orrick claimed publication of the video violates an earlier preliminary injunction he handed down blocking CMP from releasing undercover video footage its investigators captured at 2014 and 2015 conferences of the National Abortion Federation, the abortion industry’s main trade organization. NAF had argued that public access to the videos could endanger its members, which includes Planned Parenthood officials and abortionists. CMP is currently appealing the injunction.
On May 25 Steve Cooley and Brentford Ferreira, attorneys representing CMP founder and lead investigator David Daleiden in his multiple felony indictments from the case, released what they called a “preview” of the video footage under injunction. Immediately afterward Orrick ordered Cooley, Ferreira, and Daleiden to appear at a June 14 hearing to consider holding them in contempt of court.
Daleiden is under 15 felony indictments by the California attorney general’s office over previously released undercover videos. Included in the dozen or so CMP videos published since 2015 is footage showing:
• Dr. Deborah Nucatola, Planned Parenthood’s senior director of medical services, saying that “we’ve been very good at getting heart, lung, liver, because we know that, so I’m not gonna crush that part, I’m gonna basically crush below, I’m gonna crush above, and I’m gonna see if I can get it all intact.”
• Planned Parenthood’s Dr. Mary Gatter joking that “I want a Lamborghini” as she negotiates the sale of baby parts.
• Planned Parenthood’s Dr. Savita Ginde stating that “we don’t want to do just a flat fee [per baby] of like, $200. A per-item thing works a little better, just because we can see how much we can get out of it.”
• A Texas Planned Parenthood abortionist describing a partial-birth abortion to kill late-term unborn babies for the harvesting of brain material.
• A Planned Parenthood medical director conceding that babies born alive during an abortion are sometimes killed.
Attorney Brentford Ferreira, a former Former Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney, argued that the charges against Daleiden amount to little more than a “witch hunt.” He pointed out that “every video recording for which the attorney general is charging [Daleiden] was obviously and unquestionably made in a public place where it could not possibly be considered ‘confidential.’ The only difference between [Daleiden’s] conduct and that of undercover video journalists every day in the state of California is the fact that he recorded the political backers of the state’s top prosecutor.”
