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Saturday, November 16, 2019

For the "Pro-Lifers"

Ran across this in the comments on this post at Joe.My.God. With thanks to commenter Hank:

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The post itself is drawn from this article in Courthouse News:

A federal jury found an anti-abortion cohort led by David Daleiden caused substantial harm to Planned Parenthood by infiltrating abortion industry conferences to secretly tape abortion doctors and staff – and awarded punitive damages of $870,000.

David Daleiden, an anti-abortion activist charged with invasion of privacy for filming attendees at National Abortion Federation conferences in California.
Daleiden, who heads the Center for Medical Progress, and his co-defendant Sandra Merritt, posed as human tissue procurers for a fake company called BioMax as part of a hidden-camera investigation into the organization.

The pair attended abortion industry conferences from 2013 to 2015 – posing as exhibitors named Robert Sarkis and Susan Tennenbaum – where they secretly recorded conversations they later posted online. Daleiden also made recordings at Planned Parenthood-affiliated clinics in Texas and Colorado.

What's interesting is that there's no mention of whether the videos and recordings were edited -- if you remember James O'Keefe and his "Project Veritas", that was an essential part of the strategy. If they were edited, it didn't work, any more than O'Keefe's attempt did:

At least three congressional committees and law enforcement officials in thirteen states launched investigations into Planned Parenthood after Daleiden and his group released the first video on July 14, 2015. Planned Parenthood was cleared of wrongdoing by the states and so far nothing has come of the federal investigation.

At any rate, it's worth reading the whole article, as well as Joe's post, which summarizes the outrage on the part of the "pro-life" side. You can almost see the spittle flying as the hysteria mounts.

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