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Daleiden stated he has more footage to release, in an effort to expose Planned Parenthood as the "real criminals." He continued: We look forward to showing the entire world what is on our yet-unreleased videotapes of Planned Parenthood's criminal baby body parts enterprise, in vindication of the First Amendment rights of all. We look forward to justice being served.ĭaleiden countered with a statement of his own early Wednesday morning, via his organization's website, The Center for Medical Progress.
The California Attorney General filing criminal charges sends a clear message that you cannot target women and you cannot target health care providers without consequences. Planned Parenthood's Interim Vice President of Communications Mary Alice Carter said the following in a statement after the felony charges against Daleiden and Merritt were announced Tuesday, according to an email press release: As we have said from the beginning, and as more than a dozen different state investigations have made clear: Planned Parenthood has done nothing wrong, and the only people who broke the law are those behind the fraudulent tapes. We will not tolerate the criminal recording of confidential conversations.
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On the charges, Becerra said Tuesday, The right to privacy is a cornerstone of California's constitution, and a right that is foundational in a free democratic society. The 15th felony charge is for "conspiracy to invade privacy," according to The Los Angeles Times.Ĭalifornia is a two-party consent state, meaning that Daleiden and Merritt allegedly broke the law when they filmed private conversations without their subjects's consent. Daleiden and Merritt have each been charged with " unlawfully recording people without their permission," with one count assigned for each of the 14 people they recorded. Between October 2014 and July 2015, the pair allegedly secretly filmed 14 different abortion providers in their undercover film project, claiming to represent a fake biomedical research company.
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A trial date has not yet been set.ĭaleiden and Merritt run The Center for Medical Progress, an anti-choice organization founded by Deleiden in 2013. Planned Parenthood, the Center for Medical Progress, and attorneys for Daleiden and Merritt didn't immediately returned Romper's request for further comments. Could the doctored Planned Parenthood video makers go to prison? With 15 felony charges made against Daleiden and Merritt, it's a very real possibility. The video, which Planned Parenthood asserted was "heavily edited to deceive the public," appeared to show that abortion providers sold fetal tissue for profit to medical researchers. On Tuesday, California State Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced felony charges for anti-choice activists David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt for their roles in surreptitiously filming Planned Parenthood health care providers in 2015.