The following comes partly from a Jan. 14 story on LifeSiteNews.
Planned Parenthood has filed a lawsuit against the organization that exposed their practice of receiving financial remuneration for collecting the body parts and tissues of aborted babies.
Planned Parenthood sued the Center for Medical Progress today, accusing the group of violating numerous state and federal laws, including the Federal Racketeering and Corrupt Organization (RICO) Act – a law intended to prosecute the Mafia.
Its legal brief describes the center as a “complex criminal enterprise conceived and executed by anti-abortion extremists” that engaged in “large-scale illegal taping” intended “to demonize Planned Parenthood, harass and intimidate its dedicated staff, and interrupt its operations, all with the ultimate goal of interfering with women’s access to legal abortion.”
The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court in Irvine, California, seeks compensatory and punitive damages against the Center for Medical Progress as an organization, as well as its lead investigator David Daleiden, board members Troy Newman, Albin Rhomberg, Philip Cronin, Sandra Merritt, and Gerardo Lopez individually.
They claim that the group used false identification and misrepresented the true nature of the front group BioMax to gain access to Planned Parenthood officials, then record and publicize its conversations.
Those videos, which began to trickle out last July, had an explosive impact on the political landscape beginning with the first video, showing Dr. Deborah Nucatola casually eating salad and sipping wine as she described her plan “to crush” a baby’s body in a way to preserve the organs its benefactors requested – to “try to get it all intact,” in her words….
“These videos were heavily manipulated,” the legal brief states.
Daleiden is dismissing the lawsuit as a “frivolous” attempt to divert attention from its own criminal wrongdoing.
Daleiden and parental notification petitions at the Walk for Life
The following comes from a Jan. 15 item on the website of Californians for Parental Rights, which is gathering signatures for parental notification.
On Saturday, January 23, at 12:30 pm tens of thousands of pro-lifers will gather in San Francisco’s Civic Center Plaza to hear speakers including David Daleiden whose videos inspired the U.S. Congress’ de-funding of Planned Parenthood this month (vetoed by President Obama). There will be tables for handing out and signing parental notification petitions in the plaza. And bus captains on the buses taking participants to the Walk for Life will be bringing petition packets for bus riders to hand out packets and take home to their local churches.
David Daleiden—heroic in the face of the beast!!!!
This very young, , intelligent Catholic man could teach our bishops something about courage.
Whatever David says at the March will be exceptional!!!!!
Mike M.– I agree! This wonderful young Catholic man, David Daleiden– is an EXTRAORDINARILY STUNNING HERO!! He has done the work of hundreds of priests, bishops, cardinals– and all of the recent Popes, since the close of the Second Vatican Council! He has practically RISKED HIS LIFE, to help end the CRIME of ABORTION– whereas, the consecrated clergy leaders of our Church, have not!
To Mike M.– It is such an unbelievable HORROR, that all the crazy liberal politicians of our Nation, do not shed even ONE TEAR, when viewing these SHOCKING videos, of David Daleiden! In Congress, they all still want to fund and support Planned Parenthood! A HORROR!! NO MORAL CONSCIENCE– and NO HEART!! WORSE THAN COLD-BLOODED SHARKS!!
It was just HORRIBLE– to watch President Obama’s State of the Union Speech, and see him enthusiastically pledge America’s support for many types of suffering and disadvantaged people. Yet, this strangely IMMORAL, COLD-BLOODED, COLD-HEARTED President, vetoed the bill passed by Congress, to defund Planned Parenthood! So-called “doctors” like Nucatola, belong BEHIND BARS!! Politicians like Obama and Rep. Nancy Pelosi, only want to DESTROY TRUE MARRIAGE and DESTROY THE AMERICAN FAMIY AND HOME– while giving immoral “Sandra Fluke” liberals, a free (birth control) pass to promiscuity– and upholding this FILTH, as a “NORM,” for our Nation!
The liberal Democratic politicians, and liberal “doctors,” have all SOLD THEIR SOULS COMPLETELY TO THE DEVIL!! God Himself will have the final word, someday– on this FAKE, DIABOLIC TRIAL!! Like David and Goliath– God’s favor is completely with David Daleiden, and God will win, in the end, someday!! I know that He hears the pitiful, sad cries, of His poor, little, aborted (MURDERED!!) children, and HE WILL DEFEND THEM!!
David Daleiden is to be commended for pulling back the curtain of secrecy on the atrocities committed at Planned Parenthood. No other journalist has made such an enormous contribution to the public good.
Catholic media needs to recommend him for a Pulitzer prize in journalism.
I agree!
How about Spotlight of the Boston Globe? They actually did win a Pulitzer. I’ll bet Cardinal Law wishes they had never existed.
Actually, mike m, although the Boston Globe (a good, fashionably leftist fishwrap) got the Pulitzer glory for so-called “Spotlight”, the real investigative journalist that unraveled the whole story was a woman named Kristen Lombardi of the Boston Phoenix alternative newspaper, who at least a year before the BG took up the now-cool take-down of Bernard Law and the Boston Arch, was investigating leads she had received about the devastating pattern of relocating of abusive priests in the diocese.
Also, never forget that “Fr” Paul Shanley, now doing prison-time, was a powerfully connected lefty “street-priest” who abused scores of minors—but the lefty press didn’t want to take him down for a long time.
Mike, no one exposed it better than some of our own Priest and Bella Dodd. They told the REAL true story how the Monasteries were infiltrated since 1930. No one listened and it exploded. You may want to know who the REAL players were…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNzoVYNa8Zw ….https://catholicism.org/bella-dodd-%E2%80%94-from-communist-to-catholic.html and today…https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2013/02/fr-dariusz-okos-major-article-with-pope.html …I leave you this if you really want to know the truth. Careful lots of murder around this.
Very good links, Anonymous (1/16/16, 409pm).
In Phoenix diocese, we had a now-deceased monsignor, the right-hand man of the then-bishop, a man originally from Chicago, whose every social-action newsletter was pure communist-theory. One of his positions was that private property did not exist (when he passed, he owned a very nice home and had a fair cash estate value.) He also was the chief KGB man, snoop, for the Bishop, and literally chilled people when he showed up, because he,was on spy patrol. To this day, we could never figure out how he got incardinated in Phoenix: until I read AA-1025 by Marie Carre—-and it was him, through and through, had entered the seminary in the late 40’s-50’s, a man who seemed to believe in…
..In nothing, until socialist and re-distribution came up as a topic—then he came alive! Of course, he won Catholic Charity’s “Vision Award”, virtual proof of his CCCP membership.
We have paid the price for ignoring the warnings.
This defines the preferred means of the Progressive Movement’s modern political destruction, AKA the Left’s “Lawfare” (in place of warfare), on its ideological opponents. They will mercilessly grind Daleiden into a thousand fragments, allied of course with their friends, the corrupt pre-selected US judiciary, paid for by US taxpayers, that is, you and me.
Steve Phoenix, I agree. But are WE the Catholic Church and other Christian organizations WILLING to help pay for his defense? Where do I make my donation? WE SHOULD NOT KEEP SILENT!!!
We need to start a Gofundme! It is SO worth the fight for these innocent babes!
Yes. How can we help!
Generally – ‘RICO’ tends to apply to those who themselves dismember other human beings, like the Mafia and related ‘free enterprise’ outfits, and Not to those who Expose such goings on..
What They (as opposed to the entrepreneurs at PP) do with the parts is probably best left unsaid, although the often fiercely Anti-Catholic ‘godfather’ movies used the term ‘sleeps with the fishes’ for those given a watery departure.
No matter – Junkyard Dog Attorneys are usually enough to silence any Conscience, but something makes me doubt Daleiden will buckle. I would offer my own services Pro-Bono, save for lack of transport to Irvine and of course – my own great fear of the Gaystapo Thought Police.
Ahem.
Thank you young man — David Daleiden — for all you did. God bless, and keep you and vindicate your work. In the end the truth will triumph.
“They [PP] claim that the group used false identification and misrepresented the true nature of the front group BioMax to gain access to Planned Parenthood officials, then record and publicize its conversations.” Well, don’t investigators often make us of “false identification” to bring down criminal acts? Keep this in prayer, Church! Have NO FEAR, GOD IS WITH US!!!!
https://www.mrctv.org/blog/pro-life-group-responds-planned-parenthood-lawsuit
The group, headed up by pro-life activist David Daleiden, issued the following statement in response to Planned Parenthood’s lawsuit.
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…