On January 22, 1973, Americans woke up to a different republic. At the will of seven unelected justices, Roe v. Wade made dramatically expanded abortion access both the policy and the law for our entire country. The opinion was an alarm bell, a warning that the moral dimension of our country had been irrevocably altered and would continue to change unless something stopped it. Speaking conservatively, 61 million babies have since been killed under this regime.
Every year since, pro-life Americans have come to Washington to express their hope and defiance at the March for Life. Two generations of pro-lifers have bent the arc of their lives toward undoing the injustice of abortion. I’m proud to be among them and to work for the most pro-life president in history. As pro-lifers gather in Washington once again in the fourth year of the president’s first term, it is worth taking stock of how President Trump has advanced the cause of life.
By any fair reckoning, we are in a golden chapter for our movement. President Trump has pushed the boundaries of the art of the possible further than ever. His appointment of constitutionally faithful jurists — 187 federal judges, including two associate justices of the Supreme Court, for overall over a fifth of all federal judgeships — will arrest the Left’s hold on the courts. One in four federal circuit court judges today have been appointed by President Trump.
Within weeks of taking office, President Trump did not just reinstate the Mexico City Policy to stop foreign aid from subsidizing organizations that perform abortions; he went even further, applying the policy to more funding streams and more foreign aid activities than has any other president. Last September, at the opening of the 74th United Nations General Assembly, he announced, “Global bureaucrats have no business attacking the sovereignty of nations that wish to protect innocent life,” making it clear to the world that our support for the sanctity of life doesn’t stop at the water’s edge.
President Trump prohibited Title X grantees from referring patients for elective abortions and prevented their physical co-location with abortion providers. As a result, Planned Parenthood quit the program, cutting off its access to hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer funding. He issued a robust conscience rule in order to ensure, among other things, that those who care for us when we are ill are not forced to perform or encourage abortion. Moreover, the president has just finalized a rule to stop insurers from quietly billing taxpayers for abortion services, ending an Obamacare loophole that left pro-life taxpayers unwitting accomplices to the violation of their conscience. He has also restricted the use of fetal tissue from elective abortions in government-funded medical research.
But the battle is not over. Policies like the Hyde Amendment, a bipartisan provision that has prevented federal funds from paying for abortion for more than four decades, are now suddenly under unprecedented attack. In the yearly funding process, we fought off attempts to overturn our administrative successes, and it was only through the president’s staunch opposition and the unwavering work of the life movement that we prevailed.
The urgency of our labors is often informed by the texture of our own lives. My daughter, Porter, suffers from cystic fibrosis, a genetic disorder that shortens lives and requires expensive care. According to a Kaiser Permanente report, 87% of babies diagnosed with cystic fibrosis before birth are tragically aborted. These children are robbed of their lives and their parents miss out on the daily joy of loving their children, as we gratefully experience every day with Porter. Her life is a battle, but it is a glorious one, just like any other child growing up. So it is with our movement.
There is much work to be done to protect these gains and pursue others. President Trump will keep fighting in the months and years ahead for the cause of life and freedom for all Americans. And I am heartened to know that the president’s efforts will be joined by the hundreds of thousands of Americans from all walks of life who come each year in the cold to stand up and fight for our nation’s most vulnerable individuals, the unborn.
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Russ Vought is acting director of the White House Office of Management and Budget. Follow him on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/russvought45">@RussVought45</a>.

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Abortion provider (and corporate welfare recipient) Planned Parenthood is committing $45 million to helping Democrats get elected in 2020, the group announced Friday, and launching a massive new effort called &#8220;We Decide 2020&#8221; to help fans of &#8220;reproductive choice&#8221; win or keep elected office.
The &#8220;stakes have never been higher,&#8221; Planned Parenthood&#8217;s website whines. &#8220;More than three-fourths of voters say abortion should remain safe and legal. There is no state in which banning abortion is popular. But anti-abortion politicians continue to try to undermine our rights and our access to reproductive health care, putting the ability of many people to obtain birth control, safe and legal abortion, and accurate sexual education in question — yet again.&#8221;
&#8220;We decide who our leaders are. We decide our future,&#8221; the website for &#8220;We Decide 2020&#8221; says. &#8220;At the ballot box this year, we — not out-of-touch politicians — decide what we do with our own bodies.&#8221;
The group is focusing its efforts on swing and battleground states, including Pennsylvania, Colorado, Florida, Arizona, Michigan, New Hampshire, Minnesota, Wisconsin and North Carolina, and is pressing its fans to register to vote, pledge to cast a ballot, and spread the word about &#8220;out-of-touch&#8221; candidates using Planned Parenthoods helpful &#8212; and not-at-all-biased &#8212; &#8220;candidate scorecard&#8221; to their friends and family.
&#8220;[The Trump Administration} has managed to undo so much over the last three years,&#8221; Planned Parenthood Vice President Jenny Lawson said in a statement to <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/planned-parenthood-45-million-we-decide-2020-elections-investment-today/">CBS News</a>. &#8220;The fact that this summer the Supreme Court might gut Roe v. Wade is an indicator of their intention and they&#8217;ve never been so bold.&#8221;
&#8220;The Democratic candidates collectively have the boldest reproductive rights policies we&#8217;ve ever seen,&#8221; Lawson added. &#8220;Every major candidate in the 2020 elections, except for Donald Trump, has spoken out against dangerous abortion bans and many of them have actually introduced real plans to protect the reproductive rights in this country.&#8221;
Planned Parenthood has a right to be scared. Although they claim that fully 75% of voters support abortion, the number declines markedly when there are details added to the question. Many Americans support common-sense restrictions on the brutal procedure, and fewer than a quarter of Americans support late-term abortion.
Since President Donald Trump took office, the heat has been on abortion activists in the states. At least 12 states have passed sweeping abortion restrictions, including outright bans (those bans are now under litigation).
The abortion provider has also lost at least one source of Federal revenue. Last August, the Trump Administration gave Planned Parenthood a choice to stop providing abortions or risk losing their funding under Title X. They chose to pull out of the Federal program, losing $60 million in government money in the process. Of course, they pleaded poverty, begging supporters to make up what Trump cruelly denied them.
Friday, however, Planned Parenthood showed its hand, pledging nearly that amount of money to abortion-friendly candidates in Federal and state elections. The organization, of course, claims the money comes from its political action arm &#8212; a different entity than Planned Parenthood&#8217;s clinic operation, but the money is fungible.
Senator Ted Cruz had one of the best responses to the news, suggesting, on Twitter, that perhaps the<a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1218051917638750209"> announcement meant the abortion provider</a> could forgo even more of its Federal funding.

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Planned Parenthood Commits $45 Million To Democrats Running In 2020

On Thursday night, Daily Wire Senior Editor Ashe Schow joined The Heritage Foundation’s Charmaine Yoest on EWTN’s “Pro-Life Weekly” with host Catherine Hadro to discuss Planned Parenthood’s annual report regarding its services and organization.
Hadro opened the segment by explaining that Planned Parenthood performed 13,000 more abortions in 2019 than in 2018, for a total of 345,672 abortions, for an increase of 3.88% over 2018. These staggering numbers caused Yoest to refer to Planned Parenthood as “Abortion, Inc.” Schow noted that while the organization increased the number of abortions it performed, all other major services actually declined.
“As abortions go up for Planned Parenthood, all of their other services that they like to saying, ‘no we’re not just [about] abortion,’ have gone down,” Schow said, citing numbers from the report <a href="https://www.lifenews.com/2020/01/06/planned-parenthood-annual-report-shows-it-killed-345672-babies-in-abortions-more-than-ever-before/">and LifeNews</a>. “You’ve got contraception down 2%, pap smears and tests down 7%, breast exams down 11%, cancer screenings down 8%. Prenatal care? Down 68% since 2010, and to put that in perspective, for last year, Planned Parenthood killed 35 babies for every one woman it helped with prenatal care. Adoption referrals down year over year and again, killed 80 babies for every one adoption referral.”
Many of the services listed by Schow had dropped, but were still provided at a higher rate than abortions. Contraception services, for example, dropped 2% to 2,556,413 in 2018, but far outpaced the nearly 350,000 abortions provided by the organization.
Schow also discussed the fact that Planned Parenthood’s annual report completely glossed over the fact that it underwent a leadership crisis in 2019 after firing Dr. Leana Wen because she tried to get the organization to focus on more than just abortion.
“She was trying to get the organization to actually focus on women’s health and other things. She tried talking to pro-life groups and people who weren’t necessarily for abortion but didn’t like medical intrusion in medical health,” Schow said. “She wanted more services for maybe mental health and addiction but within Planned Parenthood it was just, ‘no, abortion’s our thing [and] we’re sticking to it.’”
Schow also bemoaned the constant messaging surrounding abortions, suggesting women can only succeed if they abort their child.
“People know: ‘If I need an abortion, I can go to Planned Parenthood.’ And it says a whole lot about the culture. You’ve got Democrats and progressives just constantly – just recently at the Golden Globes, you had a pregnant Michelle Williams saying the only reason she was able to accept this award was because she aborted a child,” Schow said. “You’ve got this constant messaging to women that if they have a child, their life is over and they can never succeed. And it’s working, it’s clearly working. Abortions are going up even though polls show Americans don’t agree with abortion. By and large, Americans want it at least limited to just the first trimester, and yet you have all this messaging that you should have an abortion in order to succeed in life.
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WATCH: Schow On ‘Pro-Life Weekly’: As Abortions Rose At Planned Parenthood, All Other Major Services Declined

Planned Parenthood is now reporting record-high numbers of abortions nationwide.
&#8220;Planned Parenthood reported a record-high number of abortions and government funding for 2018-2019, despite encountering a wave of Republican-led measures designed to restrict resources and access to the controversial procedure,&#8221; reports <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/planned-parenthood-record-abortions-government-funding">Fox News</a>.
The organization&#8217;s <a href="https://www.plannedparenthood.org/uploads/filer_public/2e/da/2eda3f50-82aa-4ddb-acce-c2854c4ea80b/2018-2019_annual_report.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">annual report</a> released on Monday showed that Planned Parenthood received a whopping $617 million in taxpayer funds for the fiscal year ending in June 2018 — a full 9% increase from the previous year and representing 37% of its overall organizational funding. Those funds could decline with the next fiscal year, given the Trump administration&#8217;s efforts to strip Planned Parenthood with &#8220;executive-level funding for clinics that refer clients for abortion.&#8221;
Acting Planned Parenthood President Alexis McGill Johnson said in the report that the organization has been forced out of government-funded programs due to &#8220;unethical&#8221; gag rules on referring women for abortions.
&#8220;We stand at an inflection point for reproductive health and rights,&#8221; Johnson said. &#8220;Our opponents moved to dismantle our nation’s program for affordable birth control this year, forcing providers like Planned Parenthood out of the program with an unethical gag rule.&#8221;
Pro-life groups were largely frustrated with Planned Parenthood&#8217;s reported figures. Alison Centofante, director of external affairs for Live Action, said the record-high numbers only proves that Planned Parenthood needs to be stripped of its governmental funds.
&#8220;This abortion machine, which is responsible for the taking of more than 345,000 preborn lives this year — a number consistently on the rise — should be defunded immediately and shut down,&#8221; said Centofante.
Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/planned-parenthood-record-abortions-government-funding">provided further background</a> on Planned Parenthood&#8217;s source of government funding, which goes beyond the federal and into state and local governments:
<blockquote>Other than through Congress, the group receives state and local grants in addition to money through Medicaid reimbursements. It also stands to receive a massive influx of cash if Democrats take the presidency and repeal the Hyde Amendment, a historically bipartisan measure that blocked federal funding for most abortions. A large sum of its money – $591.3 million – came from private contributions and bequests.
While some states have tried severing funding to the organization, they&#8217;ve faced legal challenges along the way. Over the past few years, Planned Parenthood has joined with groups like the American Civil Liberties Union to challenge a veritable onslaught of pro-life measures throughout the U.S.</blockquote>
Speaking with Fox News, famed Planned Parenthood defector Abby Johnson, who has repeatedly accused the organization of treating abortion as a for-profit enterprise, said that Planned Parenthood has only ramped up its efforts.
&#8220;Planned Parenthood is laser-focused on promoting abortion over any other service,&#8221; Johnson told the outlet. &#8220;They now run abortion-only clinics in several cities and have given up any semblance of trying to hide behind &#8216;family planning.&#8217; They fired Dr. Wen because she wanted to provide more services to women than just abortion. Planned Parenthood is the nation&#8217;s largest abortion vendor and their annual report only solidifies that fact.&#8221;
Planned Parenthood has always maintained that abortion constitutes just 4% of the organization&#8217;s services. Pro-life advocates have countered that assertion, arguing that Planned Parenthood manipulates the statistics to conceal its profitability. As Lila Rose stated <a href="https://www.prageru.com/video/what-you-need-to-know-about-planned-parenthood/">in a video with PragerU</a>:
<blockquote>They count every “discrete clinical interaction” as its own service. What is a “discrete clinical interaction”? Pretty much anything you do from the moment you walk into one of their clinics.
I’ll give you an example. Let’s say a woman comes into Planned Parenthood for one service—an abortion. Before providing an abortion, Planned Parenthood has to confirm that the woman is pregnant, right? So, they administer another service—a pregnancy test. That’s two services! Then, after the abortion, on your way out the door, they hand you a prescription. That’s three services!
And there are many other services provided during the abortion process that Planned Parenthood claims as “discrete clinical interactions.”</blockquote>

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The Green Bay Packers Foundation (GBPF) is now defending its donations to the abortion conglomerate Planned Parenthood in the face of criticism from conservative groups.
Earlier this week, LifeNews reported that the GBPF annual <a href="https://www.packers.com/news/packers-foundation-awards-a-record-1-million-in-annual-grants?fbclid=IwAR0x8HW2M48qzTV3alWEIN9JuC0XVDIZnyp-xdwHXX6fjvyfRIsBMWiubsE&amp;utm_source=Monday+Update&amp;utm_campaign=ebf9f173c6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_22_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_2ff3be8489-ebf9f173c6-69521241">grant fund recipients</a> list included Planned Parenthood among its 192 grantees — Planned Parenthood Of Wisconsin Inc., Milwaukee, to be exact. The news did not sit well with the foundation&#8217;s pro-life supporters.
Dan Miller, executive director of <a class="" href="https://www.prolifewi.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-track-label="inline|intext|n/a">Pro-Life Wisconsin</a>, said his organization opposes money going to the abortion giant &#8220;ever, at any time.&#8221;
&#8220;(The Packers) have stood for wonderful things, but this is not something that’s wonderful. Planned Parenthood is an abortion provider,&#8221; Miller said on Wednesday. &#8220;We&#8217;re outraged. We’d like an explanation. Whatever dollar amount they gave to Planned Parenthood, why would you possibly alienate half of your fan base?&#8221;
According to the <a href="https://www.htrnews.com/story/news/2019/12/19/green-bay-packers-foundation-criticized-planned-parenthood-donation/2691402001/">Herald Times Reporter</a>, a representative for the famed football franchise defended the donation, arguing it was for a specific program called Cuidándonos Creceremos más Sanos (CCmáS), which reaches out to &#8220;Latino families in southeastern Wisconsin, an underserved population, with language- and culturally-specific health education they would not normally receive.&#8221;
Aaron Popkey, Packers director of public affairs, said the organization understands certain objections to the donation while maintaining it was never meant as an endorsement of Planned Parenthood&#8217;s business.
“The Packers and the foundation certainly understand there are individuals who disagree with some aspect of one or more of the 2,800 organizations that have been supported since 1986,” said Popkey. “The organization respects those views. Grant applications are considered specific to their initiatives and do not necessarily imply endorsement of other actions by the organizations.”
Tanya Atkinson, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin, touted the program&#8217;s benefits for the Latino community.
“This is an innovative Spanish-language education program that empowers people to take charge of their health,” said Atkinson. “The Medical College of Wisconsin is predicting cancer rates among Hispanic women will double in the next 10 years. Programs like CCmáS serve as a critical connector between patients and the health care they need.”
As noted by <a href="https://www.lifenews.com/2019/12/20/green-bay-packers-defend-donation-to-planned-parenthood-abortion-business/">LifeNews</a>, the foundation was established in 1986 by Judge Robert J. Parins with a mission to “support charities possessing one or more of the following goals: perpetuates a community environment that promotes families and the competitive value of athletics; contributes to player and fan welfare; ensures the safety and education of children; and/or prevents cruelty to animals.” Donations to a business that inarguably profits off abortions does not seem to fit under that rubric. Here are just some statistics that LifeNews provided:
<blockquote><a href="https://www.plannedparenthood.org/uploads/filer_public/80/d7/80d7d7c7-977c-4036-9c61-b3801741b441/190118-annualreport18-p01.pdf">Its 2018 annual report</a>, released this week, shows it aborted 332,757 unborn babies and reaped in a record $1.66 billion in revenue. Meanwhile, Planned Parenthood provided less contraception, sterilizations, cancer screenings, adoption referrals and other women’s health services than the previous year.
Planned Parenthood aborted more unborn babies in 2018 than it did in the past five years. According to its report, it performed a total of 332,757 abortions — 11,373 more than the previous year. According to Students for Life’s analysis, abortions increased more than 3 percent while adoption referrals dropped by more than 25 percent. Planned Parenthood did one adoption referral for every 117 abortions.
Planned Parenthood’s provision of contraception decreased by 80,000, cancer screenings by 45,000, and other “women’s health services” such as well-woman exams and prenatal services decreased by 13,000.</blockquote>
Pro-Life Wisconsin told LifeNews that any donation to Planned Parenthood, regardless of the reasoning, supports the organization&#8217;s total business.
“If the foundation truly wanted to promote families and ensure the safety of children, they would not be financially investing in an organization that violently destroys children’s lives each and every day,” the organization said. “Any perceived benefit Planned Parenthood provides to society is wiped out every time they kill a baby, which in their case is 4,639 times a year in Wisconsin alone. In just one day, they wipe out the approximate equivalent of an entire football team.”

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On December 4, the Green Bay Packers Foundation (GBPF) released the names of their <a href="https://www.packers.com/news/packers-foundation-awards-a-record-1-million-in-annual-grants?fbclid=IwAR0x8HW2M48qzTV3alWEIN9JuC0XVDIZnyp-xdwHXX6fjvyfRIsBMWiubsE&amp;utm_source=Monday+Update&amp;utm_campaign=ebf9f173c6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_22_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_2ff3be8489-ebf9f173c6-69521241">annual grant fund recipients</a>, prompting harsh criticism when it was discovered one of the organizations they donated to was Planned Parenthood.
As <a href="https://www.lifenews.com/2019/12/16/green-bay-packers-foundation-donates-to-planned-parenthood-abortion-business/">LifeNews</a> noted, “The Packers foundation made a record-setting $2.05 million in donations to organizations, most of which are non-controversial charities that help with ‘the need areas of animal welfare, civic and community, environmental, health and wellness including drug/alcohol and domestic violence causes.’”
In announcing the grants, the foundation <a href="https://www.packers.com/news/packers-foundation-awards-a-record-1-million-in-annual-grants?fbclid=IwAR0x8HW2M48qzTV3alWEIN9JuC0XVDIZnyp-xdwHXX6fjvyfRIsBMWiubsE&amp;utm_source=Monday+Update&amp;utm_campaign=ebf9f173c6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_22_COPY_01&amp;utm_">stated</a>, “This year’s grant cycle focused on organizations that will direct the funds toward the need areas of animal welfare, civic and community, environmental, health and wellness including drug/alcohol and domestic violence causes. In 2020, the focus areas will be elderly, homelessness, human services and hunger causes.”
The Foundation, founded in 1986 by Judge Robert J. Parins, stated its mission was to “support charities possessing one or more of the following goals: perpetuates a community environment that promotes families and the competitive value of athletics; contributes to player and fan welfare; ensures the safety and education of children; and/or prevents cruelty to animals.”
Pro-Life Wisconsin, which alerted LifeNews to the donation, said the donation to Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin “directly contradicts this mission,” adding, “If the foundation truly wanted to promote families and ensure the safety of children, they would not be financially investing in an organization that violently destroys children’s lives each and every day. Any perceived benefit Planned Parenthood provides to society is wiped out every time they kill a baby, which in their case is 4,639 times a year in Wisconsin alone. In just one day, they wipe out the approximate equivalent of an entire football team.”
In 2018, <a href="https://www.si.com/nfl/green-bay-packers-shareholders-team-owners">Sports Illustrated</a> noted the unique status of the Packers among all professional sports teams:
<blockquote>The Packers pride themselves on being the only publicly-owned, not-for-profit, major league professional team in the United States. Instead of having one owner or a handful of partners like every other NFL team, the Packers are owned by hundreds of thousands of fans. In 1923, four years after the team was founded, the fledgling Packers found themselves on the verge of bankruptcy, so they sold shares to the community to keep the lights on. The team has held four additional stock offerings since the original in ‘23, and <a href="https://www.packers.com/community/shareholders">according to the team’s website</a>, there are currently 360,760 shareholders who own a total of 5,011,558 shares.</blockquote>
The Packers supporting Planned Parenthood may not sit well with the people of Green Bay; the city is <a href="http://worldpopulationreview.com/us-cities/green-bay-population/">71% Catholic</a>, and the Catholic Church is traditionally one of the bastions of the pro-life movement. The Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Green Bay supports Project Rachel, of which it has <a href="https://newcatholiccharities.org/counseling/after-abortion">written</a>, “Project Rachel is a national organization which helps individuals face the emotional and spiritual problems that can surface after abortion. Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Green Bay partners with Project Rachel to provide healing after abortion. Project Rachel can help the woman who has experienced an abortion, the father of the unborn baby, grandparents, relatives, friends, and medical personnel working in the abortion industry.”

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Green Bay Packers Foundation Slammed For Supporting Planned Parenthood

Planned Parenthood Los Angeles (PPLA), along with government and education officials, recently <a href="https://www.plannedparenthood.org/about-us/newsroom/press-releases/planned-parenthood-los-angeles-announces-landmark-program-and-partnership-of-high-school-based-wellbeing-centers-across-l-a-county">announced</a> plans to “create a safe space” on 50 high school campuses across L.A. County where students can receive “social, emotional, and sexual health” services, including “pregnancy options counseling.”
The program is a partnership between PPLA, L.A. County, and the L.A. Unified School District, establishing “Wellbeing Centers” throughout the nation’s second-largest public education system, where more than 600,000 pupils are enrolled. <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2019/12/11/planned-parenthood-open-reproductive-health-centers-los-angeles-high-schools/">According</a> to the Washington Post, “five of the Planned Parenthood centers opened a few weeks into the school year” and “the rest are to be added before June.”
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Yesterday, <a href="https://twitter.com/PPLosAngeles?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PPLosAngeles</a> announced the opening of the first five of 50 High School Wellbeing Centers. This groundbreaking program means that students don’t have to worry about missing school just to access the quality health care, education, and resources they need. <a href="https://t.co/fNvkGMwZrd">https://t.co/fNvkGMwZrd</a>
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“Finding support to grapple with these issues generally requires students to go off campus and means time away from class, money for transportation, and explaining your whereabouts to others, all hurdles that loom large for teens,” said Sue Dunlap, PPLA President and CEO.
A supervising health educator involved with the project <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-12-12/50-new-sexual-health-wellbeing-centers-in-l-a-high-schools">told</a> The Los Angeles Times that part of the objective is to “offer the students another set of caring adults to whom they can come with those strange life questions.”
The Times reported, “the centers include reproductive health clinics where students can get birth control pills and condoms,” noting that California law allows minors older than 12 to obtain contraceptives without parental consent. A teenager interviewed by the outlet <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-12-12/50-new-sexual-health-wellbeing-centers-in-l-a-high-schools">said</a>she decided to start the birth control pill after receiving counseling at one of the high schools. The centers are part of an initiative funded by PPLA and the L.A. County departments of public health and mental health, the report said, costing “at least $12 million” the first year.
A Planned Parenthood press release <a href="https://www.plannedparenthood.org/about-us/newsroom/press-releases/planned-parenthood-los-angeles-announces-landmark-program-and-partnership-of-high-school-based-wellbeing-centers-across-l-a-county">explained</a> that the on-campus facilities seek “to create a safe space in each school where students can receive the education and health services they need to lead healthy lives,” and:
<blockquote>Clinicians from PPLA will provide a range of sexual health services one day a week, including testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections (STIs), emergency contraception and birth control counseling and provision, well-person exams, pregnancy testing, and pregnancy options counseling.
Each Center is also staffed by two DPH (Dept of Public Health) Master’s level Youth Educators, who will facilitate classes, support groups, and activities aimed at equipping teens with information about substance use prevention, behavioral health, and sexual health, as well as the skills they need to have healthy relationships, protect their health, and plan for the future. Through in-Center and in-classroom activities, the Youth Educators deliver an age-appropriate, evidence-informed curriculum that complies with California Healthy Youth Act (CHYA) requirements with added emphasis on behavioral health, substance use, and social and emotional well-being.</blockquote>
The press release adds, PPLA “will provide skill building sessions on campus in both English and Spanish for parents and family members around behavioral health, substance abuse prevention, and sexual health and relationships.”
The L.A. Times <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-12-12/50-new-sexual-health-wellbeing-centers-in-l-a-high-schools">observed</a> operations at the PPLA-run center at Esteban Torres High School in East L.A.:
<blockquote>On Fridays, students can see a Planned Parenthood nurse or physician assistant in a “modular clinic” with an exam table, thick makeshift walls and a white noise machine for privacy. Tuesdays through Thursdays, students can visit the well-being center next door, greeted by cute stuffed sloths, with a soft blanket on comfy chairs that are pushed together to resemble a sofa. Signs in the room promise a safe space and an explanation of what defines sexual consent: “Freely given, reversible, informed, enthusiastic, specific.”</blockquote>
PPLA <a href="https://www.plannedparenthood.org/about-us/newsroom/press-releases/planned-parenthood-los-angeles-announces-landmark-program-and-partnership-of-high-school-based-wellbeing-centers-across-l-a-county">describes</a> itself as “one of the largest providers of reproductive health care services in Los Angeles County,” citing more than 250,000 patient visits last year.

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Planned Parenthood To ‘Create A Safe Space’ At 50 Los Angeles High Schools

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is vehemently pro-abortion. And she wants everyone to know.
At a town hall in Iowa over the weekend, the Massachusetts Democrat was asked by a supporter: &#8220;I was wondering what your plans are to make reproductive health care accessible to all women, no matter their economic status and/or racial background?&#8221;
&#8220;Oh that&#8217;s fabulous!&#8221; the effusive candidate said. &#8220;OK. So, can I do a small pitch to start?&#8221;
Then Warren recounted a story about attending President Trump&#8217;s inauguration. &#8220;I come from a witnessing tradition. This is a part of the transfer of power in our government,&#8221; she said.
&#8220;But it was important to me what I wore,&#8221; she told the group of supporters, prompting laughter. &#8220;I&#8217;ll tell you what I wore. I wore my scarf that has in big letters on it, embroidered, Planned Parenthood.&#8221; She then thrust a fist into the sky as the crowd cheered (&#8220;Yeah, abortion!&#8221;).
The next day, Warren said, she attended the Women&#8217;s March. &#8220;I spoke and I wore my pink Planned Parenthood scarf. Now that&#8217;s two. So here&#8217;s my plan for number three. I&#8217;m gonna be wearing that scarf when I&#8217;m sworn in as president of the United States.&#8221; Huge cheers.
Warren is apparently already measuring the drapes in the Oval Office. She often talks about when she&#8217;ll do various things as president.
In the same speech in Iowa, Warren said she&#8217;ll <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/knowles-liz-warren-needs-radical-proposals-to-stay-relevant">do away with the Electoral College</a> set up by America&#8217;s Founding Fathers.
“My goal is to get elected — but I plan to be the last American president to be elected by the Electoral College. I want my second term to be elected by direct vote,” Warren said during the campaign event. “I want to get rid of it. I just think this is how a democracy should work. Call me old-fashioned, but I think the person who gets the most votes should win.”
Under the Constitution, the Electoral College is comprised of a temporary group of electors equal to the total number of representatives in Congress — with each state getting the same number of electoral votes as it has members of Congress. Most states have systems in which the candidate who receives the most popular votes in a state wins all that state&#8217;s electoral votes. In modern times, whoever gets to 270 of the 538 total electoral votes wins the White House.
Just five times in history has a presidential candidate won the popular vote but lost the Electoral College. It happened in 2016, when Hillary Clinton got more than 65 million votes and President Trump got more than 63 million votes, but Trump won the Electoral College by a vote of 304–227. Democrats want to do away with the Electoral College in order to take away power from smaller, rural states and give more clout to states with larger, more urban populations.
Warren also said in her speech that she plans to wipe away the student debt of 43 million Americans. The price tag is astronomical. &#8220;The average American household with student loan debt owes almost $50,000, according to figures published by personal finance website <a href="https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/loans/student-loans/student-loan-debt/">NerdWallet</a>, and a total of $1.6 trillion of debt still has to be paid back by approximately 43 million borrowers,&#8221; Evan Stern wrote in the <a href="https://www.michigandaily.com/section/columns/evan-stern-why-forgiving-student-loan-debt-bad-idea">Michigan Daily</a>.

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The director of a large, celebrity-backed pro-abortion group told <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/01/us/politics/abortion-planned-parenthood.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share">The New York Times</a> on Sunday that the hard Left&#8217;s single focus on providing abortions to low-income women makes them &#8220;eugenicists.&#8221;
“If all we do as an organization is pay for abortions for low-income people, we are eugenicists,” <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/01/us/politics/abortion-planned-parenthood.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share">said</a> Amanda Reyes, the director for The Yellowhammer Fund. “That is not transformational work. That is slapping a Band-Aid on a huge problem.”
The comments from Reyes were posted in a Times piece dissecting the Left&#8217;s fracture on abortion messaging and spending, titled, &#8220;How a Divided Left Is Losing the Battle on Abortion.&#8221;
&#8220;The Yellowhammer Fund raised $4 million in 10 weeks, and its director, Amanda Reyes, said about $500,000 was budgeted to cover abortion procedures. &#8230; Ms. Reyes has put forth a different vision to address broader challenges that women of color and low-income families might face, like access to financial and health care resources to care for additional children,&#8221; the Times report outlined. &#8220;Yellowhammer is planning to support other aspects of reproductive rights, like doula care, she said, and hopes to build new &#8216;reproductive justice centers&#8217; designed to compete with anti-abortion pregnancy centers by providing things like diapers and pregnancy tests.&#8221;
&#8220;Their efforts are a sign that the left knows it needs new strategies, but also of the wide disagreement over what they should be,&#8221; the report continued. &#8220;In describing her vision, Ms. Reyes used language some say is similar to the rhetoric frequently deployed by abortion rights’ fiercest opponents.&#8221;
The piece outlined heavy criticism of abortion giant Planned Parenthood, for both its primary focus on abortion, generally for low-income women, and for ignoring so-called flyover country.
It remains unclear if Ms. Reyes was directing her remarks to Planned Parenthood, specifically, or in the general direction of the hard Left.
In the piece, the Times noted of the recent departure of Planned Parenthood head Dr. Leana Wen, who left the organization this summer in part over the group&#8217;s overt organizational emphasis on abortion.
According to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-heres-why-planned-parenthood-booted-lenan-amanda-prestigiacomo">BuzzFeed News</a> reporter Ema O’Connor, Wen was pushed out as president because she &#8220;sometimes went through [Planned Parenthood]’s press releases and docs, deleting the word ‘sexual’ from the phrase ‘sexual and reproductive health&#8217; &#8230; She also resisted using ‘abortion’ as a stand-alone, preferring ‘abortion care’ or other phrases entirely.”
Wen <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-heres-why-planned-parenthood-booted-lenan-amanda-prestigiacomo">announced</a> in July: “I just learned that the [Planned Parenthood Federal Action Fund] Board ended my employment at a secret meeting. We were engaged in good faith negotiations about my departure based on philosophical differences over the direction and future of Planned Parenthood.&#8221;
Notably, Planned Parenthood, which to this day is the national leader in providing abortions to black women, was founded by a proponent of racial eugenics named Margaret Sanger.
Sanger &#8220;was an out and proud eugenicist who described the poor and immigrants as &#8216;human weeds,&#8217; &#8216;reckless breeders&#8217; and &#8216;spawning … human beings who never should have been born&#8217; in her book &#8216;Pivot of Civilization<a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2015/02/23/7-shocking-quotes-from-planned-parenthood-founder-margaret-sanger/">,</a>&#8216;&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/university-removes-poster-racist-margaret-sanger-paul-bois">The Daily Wire</a> previously reported.
Sanger also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/university-removes-poster-racist-margaret-sanger-paul-bois">wrote</a>: &#8220;The main objects of the Population Congress would be to apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is tainted, or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring[;] to give certain dysgenic groups in our population their choice of segregation or sterilization.&#8221;

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With the announcement of the Grammy nominees, abortion conglomerate Planned Parenthood took to Twitter to celebrate some of their biggest supporters: John Legend, Ariana Grande, and Lady Gaga.
&#8220;Artists that support abortion access get nominated for #Grammys. Coincidence??? We think nah. Congrats on the nominations!” the official Twitter account said as it tagged various musicians.
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Artists that support abortion access get nominated for <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Grammys?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Grammys</a>. Coincidence??? We think nah. Congrats on the nominations!
⭐<a href="https://twitter.com/lizzo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Lizzo</a> ⭐<a href="https://twitter.com/billieeilish?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@billieeilish</a> ⭐<a href="https://twitter.com/ArianaGrande?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ArianaGrande</a> ⭐<a href="https://twitter.com/boniver?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@boniver</a> ⭐<a href="https://twitter.com/ladygaga?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ladygaga</a> ⭐<a href="https://twitter.com/johnlegend?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@johnlegend</a> ⭐<a href="https://twitter.com/maggierogers?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@maggierogers</a> ⭐<a href="https://twitter.com/the1975?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@the1975</a> ⭐<a href="https://twitter.com/SaraBareilles?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SaraBareilles</a> ⭐<a href="https://twitter.com/ToveLo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ToveLo</a><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BansOffMyBody?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BansOffMyBody</a>
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&#8220;This list included artists who have signed the company’s new &#8216;Bans Off My Body&#8217; campaign, designed to raise awareness for what Rolling Stone described as &#8216;devastating restrictions on abortion that have swept across the country over the past few years,'&#8221; reports <a href="https://www.lifenews.com/2019/11/22/planned-parenthood-thanks-signers-ariana-grande-lady-gaga-and-john-legend-for-promoting-abortion/">LifeNews</a>. &#8220;Planned Parenthood thanked &#8216;body-positive&#8217; artist Lizzo (&#8216;Truth Hurts&#8217;) ,17-year-old singer Billie Eilish, &#8216;God Is a Woman&#8217; diva Ariana Grande, indie-folk artist Bon Iver, super lefty Lady Gaga, People’s &#8216;Sexiest Man Alive&#8217; John Legend, pop up-and-comer Maggie Rogers, UK band The 1975, Sarah Bareilles, and Swedish import Tove Lo for pledging support for the campaign.&#8221;
Celebrities have been fighting tooth and nail to keep Planned Parenthood alive during the Trump administration, though it’s confusing why they are so afraid; Republicans failed to defund the abortion giant when they had control of both Congress and the presidency.
Planned Parenthood held another celebrity fundraiser in 2017, in which the Old Style Guitar Shop in Los Angeles raffled off a guitar <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/lady-gaga-foo-fighters-100-more-artists-sign-guitar-for-planned-parenthood-raffle-109133/">signed by over 100 musicians</a>. In addition to big names like Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, and John Legend, other celebrities whose names appeared on the guitar were The Foo Fighters, Michael Stipe (formerly of REM), composer Danny Elfman, Ryan Adams, Henry Rollins, Sam Smith, Nancy Sinatra, Mark Ronson, comedian Fred Armisen, Queens of the Stone Age, Charlie Puth, and Gary Clark, Jr.
Planned Parenthood receives over a half-billion dollars a year in taxpayer funds, and while the organization lobbies for cash, it still has enough money to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/32101/planned-parenthood-spend-record-15-million-sway-paul-bois">bankroll politicians</a>. During the 2018 midterm elections, Planned Parenthood spent a whopping $20 million in just eight states. From <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/01/politics/planned-parenthood-midterm-20-million-8-state-plan/index.html">CNN</a>:
<blockquote>The offensive is set to cost $20 million, an initial mark that the organization’s officials say is all but certain to be exceeded.
The investment from Planned Parenthood Action Fund and Planned Parenthood Votes, the organization’s political entities, makes it one of the biggest outside spending forces in Democratic politics headed into a cycle in which the party sees a rare opportunity to pick off GOP seats across the map.
The initial list of targets includes eight states: Arizona, Florida, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.</blockquote>
Popstar Ariana Grande also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ariana-grande-donates-concert-proceeds-planned-paul-bois">recently donated</a> proceeds from her concert in Atlanta to Planned Parenthood in the name of fighting the Georgia abortion law. At the same time, Lady Gaga <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/lady-gaga-alabama-abortion-ban-835821/">blasted the abortion ban </a>in Alabama as a “travesty.”
“It is an outrage to ban abortion in Alabama, period, and all the more heinous that it excludes those who have been raped or are experiencing incest, non-consensual or not,” Gaga said in a social media post. “So there’s a higher penalty for doctors who perform these operations than for most rapists? This is a travesty, and I pray for all these women and young girls who suffer at the hands of this system.”

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The jury in the “Baby Body Parts” trial of activist and journalist David Daleiden has delivered a blow to undercover journalism, declaring that secret filming is now illegal and can leave journalists open to massive damages.
Planned Parenthood was awarded almost $2 million for the filming after alleging activist journalist David Daleiden secretly recorded executives negotiating to sell baby body parts.
Peter Breen, a lawyer for Mr. Daleiden, said the judgement is a direct threat to undercover journalism in California and across the country.
“Undercover Journalism now comes with a $2 million price tag,” he said.
Mr. Breen blamed Judge William Orrick&#8217;s directions to the jury for the verdict.
“The judge should have told them that Mr. Daleiden&#8217;s filming was protected by the First Amendment. Instead, he told them the First Amendment is no defense, which is outrageous and not the law. When you have a series of unfair rulings, you can’t expect a fair verdict,” Breen said.
Judge Orrick <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/judge-in-planned-parenthood-trial-orders-guilty-verdict-against-journalist">told the jury</a> in advance of their verdict that he has decided to find Daleiden guilty of trespass during his undercover journalism. Daleiden previously lost an attempt to have Judge Orrick removed from the case, alleging he was biased against the defendants.
Planned Parenthood sued Daleiden and his colleagues after they released secretly recorded videos of Planned Parenthood executives haggling over the sale and price of baby body parts from abortions in their facilities. Planned Parenthood made a series of claims – stating they had caused damages because of their invasion of privacy with the undercover filming, fraud because they set up a false buying company, and RICO conspiracy because a number of people worked together in the project. RICO charges are more normally associated with criminal mafia cases. The jury found for Planned Parenthood in all their claims.
Daleiden and his colleagues Sandra Merritt, Albin Rhomberg, Adrian Lopez and Troy Newman, denied all the charges.
Planned Parenthood originally sought $20 million in damages against Daleiden and his colleagues. Daleiden recorded Planned Parenthood executives stating they changed abortion techniques to ensure better and more profitable body parts were retrieved for sale. His attorneys argue that the recordings took place in public places, such as restaurants and hotels, where participants have no reasonable expectation of privacy.
Planned Parenthood did not sue Daleiden for defamation or slander and the organization’s lawyers did not state that the videos were inaccurate or exaggerated. They instead claimed that they were filmed as a result of trespassing and other illegal methods. The organization is also claiming Daleiden and his colleagues are guilty of fraud for setting up a fake company and identifications to open business conversations with Planned Parenthood executives.
The defendants argued that they were involved in journalism and revealing criminal activity.
Phelim McAleer is a journalist and filmmaker. He is the author of the New York Times best-selling book “Gosnell – The Untold Story of America’s Most Prolific Serial Killer” and host of the podcast &#8220;The Ann and Phelim Scoop.&#8221;
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Planned Parenthood of Washington state has a brilliant idea to regain support after losing a dramatic battle in the Clark County, Washington, Battle Ground School District, which voted back in October to remove sex education fromthe school curriculum beyond what is required by law: have an all ages, all genders sex worshop featuring &#8220;clitoris and pleasure education&#8221;and erotic pole dancing.
The Battle Ground School board voted &#8220;to overhaul its internal sexual health education policy,&#8221; according to a localpaper, &#8220;eliminating requirements that the district teach sex ed unless the state requires it. As it stands, Washington law only requires that school districts teach about HIV and AIDS prevention. If districts do teach sexual health education, it must be comprehensive and compliant with state standards.&#8221;
The crux of the disagreement was a new proposal to teach &#8220;gender identity&#8221; in sex education classes, but Planned Parenthood appeared to take the decision as a major blow, likely because the abortion provider pushes its own outlines for sex education, which do include lessons on &#8220;gender identity&#8221; and early introduction to the concept of sexual orientation.
Fearing that its message wasn&#8217;t getting to the voters of Washington state, apparently, Planned Parenthood Votes Northwest &amp; Hawaii, held an even where supporters could &#8220;celebrate our sexuality and enjoy an irreverently playful night of fundraising, fitness, sex talk, and exotic pole dance performances.&#8221;
The purpose of the &#8220;celebration&#8221; wasn&#8217;t just to learn pole dancing for fun (and possibly profit), but to put Planned Parenthood supporters on the same page about sex education in Washington state. Since school districts are opting out, choosing to teach only what is required by the state, Planned Parenthood is moving its activism to the state level to agitate for including more &#8220;comprehensive&#8221; lessons in state-mandated sex ed classes.
&#8220;We&#8217;ll begin the night with Pilates and Barre class demos followed by a sexy floor work lesson and a presentation on feminine sensual movement; we will then transition into our educational portion with an informational session about the Clitoris, pleasure, and making sex ed mandatory in Washington State; the night will end with a Wicked Sexy Carnival Side Show themed pole dance showcase brought to you be Pole at Play,&#8221; the invitation reads.
It comes with an agenda breakdown.
<blockquote>4 &#8211; 5 p.m.: Pilates and Barre Class Sampler 
5 &#8211; 5:30p.m.: Sexy Floor Work Lesson 
5:30 &#8211; 6 p.m.: The Art of Feminine Sensual Movement 
6 &#8211; 6:30 p.m.: Clitoris and Pleasure Education with Planned Parenthood 
6:30 &#8211; 7 p.m.: Sex Ed in Washington State Informational with Planned Parenthood Votes Northwest and Hawaii 
7- 9 p.m. Wicked Sexy Pole Dance Showcase presented by Pole at Play</blockquote>
For a mere ten dollars, you could access the fun and learn how you can do your part to force controversial ideas on impressionable children.
Actually, the children are welcome! &#8220;As a programming note, this event is open to folks of all genders and ages.&#8221;
Even the boys! &#8220;The theme for the night is a reclamation of pleasure, and while we emphasize the Clitoris, we understand that not all folks who have marginalized sexualities have a Clitoris or are femme presenting.&#8221;
Charming.

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The judge in the “Baby Body Parts” trial of activist and journalist David Daleiden has ordered the jury find him guilty of trespassing at Planned Parenthood conferences and clinics — before the jury retired to consider a verdict.
Planned Parenthood is suing Daleiden and his colleagues after they released secretly recorded videos of executives haggling over the sale and price of baby body parts from abortions in their facilities.
Daleiden is contesting all the charges. However, Judge William Orrick told the jury that he has decided to find Daleiden guilty of trespass during his undercover journalism. Daleiden previously lost an attempt to have Judge Orrick removed from the case, alleging he was biased against the defendants.
Thejudge stated that the jury must find that Daleiden and others “trespassed at the 2014 Forum in Miami, Florida; at the 2015 MeDC meeting in Orlando, Florida; and the 2015 National Conference in Washington, D.C.”
“I have already determined that these defendants trespassed at each of these locations. Because I determined that these defendants trespassed, the law assumes that Planned Parenthood has been harmed and is entitled to an award of nominal damages such as one dollar for each trespass,” he told the jury as the trial comes to a conclusion.
The judge said he had also determined that Daleiden and his colleagues trespassed at the Planned Parenthood Rocky Mountain Center in Colorado and a Planned Parenthood Center in Texas.
The judge said the jury must accept his rulings and only decide if Planned Parenthood suffered damage from the trespass and what damages they should be awarded.
Planned Parenthood originally sought $20 million in damages for trespassing, fraud, and RICO conspiracy against Daleiden and his colleagues. However, Judge Orrick reduced potential damages to $600,000.
Daleiden recorded Planned Parenthood executives stating they changed abortion techniques to ensure better and more profitable body parts were retrieved for sale. His attorneys argue that the recordings took place in public places, such as restaurants and hotels, where participants have no expectation of privacy.
Planned Parenthood is not suing Daleiden for defamation or slander and the organization’s lawyers did not state that the videos were inaccurate or exaggerated. They instead claimed they were filmed as a result of trespassing and other illegal methods. The organization is also claiming Daleiden and his colleagues are guilty of fraud for setting up a fake company and identifications to open business conversations with Planned Parenthood executives.
Addressing the jury at the close of the trial, Peter Breen, counsel for Daleiden and his colleagues, said the case is “about the steps it took for private citizen investigators to cut through a curtain of silence and concealment.”
“They didn&#8217;t do it for profit or for personal gain.  They did it for the paramount public purpose of letting Americans know and law enforcers investigate whether and to what extent our laws may have been violated. And they are not just any laws, but these are laws relating to homicide against born human beings, laws against the selling of body parts and organs of aborted human fetuses, and the laws against changing medical procedures without knowledge and consent to obtain more valuable fetal parts,” he told the jury.
He referred to Planned Parenthood lawyers stating that the case is about “protecting the brand.”
“But what is it, that hurt the brand? The very words spoken by Planned Parenthood personnel on those videos is what hurt the brand,” Breen contended.
Breen argued that at no point during the trial did Planned Parenthood dispute the accuracy of the secretly recorded videos.
“Now, Planned Parenthood could have tried to dispute this issue, but when push came to shove here at trial, a place where you need hard evidence to back up your claims, they had nothing. This is what so outraged the public. The true words of Planned Parenthood&#8217;s top abortion doctors and other personnel,” he told the jury.
He added that it was not a case of fraud or racketeering but rather one about the freedom of the press.
“This is a case of undercover journalism. And we, the people, need that information. You need that information. You may not like seeing that information. It may be difficult or whatever. But we don&#8217;t want to stop the flow of information.”
Also addressing the jury was Charles Limandri, another lawyer for Daleiden and his colleagues, who said the evidence they heard showed “people, obviously, making huge profits selling and buying fetal tissue, which is not legal.”
“Different people understanding they have different views about using undercover techniques where you have to misrepresent your identity and misrepresent why you&#8217;re there.  But if you&#8217;re doing it to save human lives and to stop the type of atrocities that we&#8217;re talking about here, it&#8217;s fully justifiable,” he added.
He said the charges were an attempt by Planned Parenthood to “conceal criminal activity.”
“And they even want you to use a threat of punitive damages to stop them — stop anybody from ever being able to show — do that again. And they want to destroy these defendants, financially.”
The jury has retired to consider its verdict.
Phelim McAleer is a journalist and filmmaker. He is the author of the New York Times best-selling book “Gosnell – The Untold Story of America’s Most Prolific Serial Killer” and host of the Podcast The Ann and Phelim Scoop.

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Abortion propaganda has become so pervasive in the entertainment industry that the dialogue on TV shows is now starting to sound like &#8220;Fireproof&#8221; for abortion enthusiasts. Take the latest episode of NBC’s &#8220;Law &amp; Order: Special Victims Unit&#8221; for example – an episode that almost literally treats its characters like puppets to spout talking points that could have come from a Planned Parenthood pamphlet.
As reported by <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/lindsay-kornick/2019/10/18/law-order-svu-upholds-13-year-olds-right-abortion">Newsbusters</a>, the October 17 episode “The Burden of Our Choices” focuses on a 13-year-old girl from an evangelical Christian family in Ohio who escaped to New York in order to obtain an abortion after her stepfather rapes her. Since Ohio requires minors to have permission from family members in order to obtain an abortion, the girl&#8217;s case becomes a major court battle. At one point in the episode, members of the SVU debate the case and it&#8217;s hard not to see a Planned Parenthood executive writing the script where the showrunners left off.
From the transcript provided by Newsbusters:
<blockquote>Carisi: Appeals court just refused to hear Ohio’s case. Even some pro-life groups thought the charges were ridiculous.
Olivia: Well, they are.
Tamin: So you guys aren’t under arrest? What about the stay on the abortion?
Carisi: Family court didn’t want to make a ruling until Ohio’s arrest warrants have been dismissed. They’re still deliberating.
Tamin: For how long? She’s 12 weeks pregnant. Any day after the first trimester, it gets more complicated.
Olivia: And that’s part of Ohio’s plan, is to run out the clock.
Tamin: I’m sorry, what century is this? All these old white men trying to control women’s bodies? I mean, how far off are we from “The Handmaid’s Tale”?
Olivia: You grew up taking these rights for granted. My mother, there was a time when she considered abortion, and her only option was – was back-alley. The bottom line is, if you have enough money, there’s always a way. But it’s these poor women, these girls – in some states, they’re gonna see deaths. That’s where this is going.
Tamin: They think that’s what we’re going back to.
Carisi: Fundamentalists, Catholics – they see abortion as deaths.
Tamin: You’re Catholic, right? Is that what you think?
Carisi: What I think is what I think. But if a woman is the victim of rape or incest –
Tamin: I hear that, and it sounds like you’re saying that a woman has to be a victim in order to have control over her own body.
Olivia: That’s not what he’s saying.
Tamin: Good. Because it’s not a decision that should ever be made by a group of men or a prosecutor who’s never had to make that choice.
Olivia: Guys, guys, guys.
Carisi: J-just so we’re clear. My job is to uphold that girl’s rights, and that’s what I’m doing. But I’m sorry, I don’t see this as black-and-white. In my experience, no woman wants to have an abortion.
Olivia: Okay.
Tamin: Fair enough. But these laws that are getting passed, they are not the answer.
Olivia: No, they’re not.</blockquote>
Spoilers: The episode ends with the 13-year-old girl receiving the abortion.

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A Planned Parenthood doctor who was secretly recorded stating she changed abortion techniques to get intact hearts, lungs and livers to sell has defended her comments in a San Francisco courtroom.
Dr. Deborah Nucatola, the former Senior Director of Medical Services for Planned Parenthood Federation of America, told the court this week that she believed the comments she made to David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt in an undercover video were, “no big deal.”
Dr. Nucatola was giving evidence in a lawsuit taken by Planned Parenthood against Daleiden, a journalist and activist who secretly recorded the organization haggling over the price of body parts from abortions.
Despite detailing the harvesting of baby organs, skulls and other body parts, and changing procedures without patient permission to make them more intact and valuable, the court heard that Dr. Nucatola “didn&#8217;t get the big deal and didn&#8217;t think there was anything wrong in the video with what I said.&#8221;
Daleiden set up a fake company and posed as a buyer looking to buy baby organs and limbs for research and commercial use and recorded Nucatola saying &#8220;a lot of people want liver &#8230; a lot of people want intact hearts these days.” She also said she had just been asked to provide lungs from an abortion.
The secret recording also revealed Dr. Nucatola boasting about how she would change abortion techniques to acquire more intact and therefore more valuable samples.
“I’d say a lot of people want liver. And for that reason, most providers will do this case under ultrasound guidance, so they’ll know where they’re putting their forceps. The kind of rate-limiting step of the procedure is the calvarium, the head is basically the biggest part. Most of the other stuff can come out intact. It’s very rare to have a patient that doesn’t have enough dilation to evacuate all the other parts intact,” according to videos shown yesterday in the San Francisco courtroom.
Dr. Nucatola was recorded detailing exactly how she would ensure a more valuable specimen for sale.
“So then you’re just kind of cognizant of where you put your graspers, you try to intentionally go above and below the thorax, so that, you know, we’ve been very good at getting heart, lung, liver, because we know that, so I’m not gonna crush that part, I’m going to basically crush below, I’m gonna crush above, and I’m gonna see if I can get it all intact,&#8221; she told the undercover journalists.
The jury heard how Dr. Nucatola was recorded stating that the position of the baby would be changed during the abortion to ensure a more intact skull could be harvested.
“And with the calvarium [skull], in general, some people will actually try to change the presentation so that it’s not vertex, because when it’s vertex presentation, you never have enough dilation at the beginning of the case, unless you have real, huge amount of dilation to deliver an intact calvarium [skull]. So if you do it starting from the breech presentation, there’s dilation that happens as the case goes on, and often, the last, you can evacuate an intact calvarium at the end. So I mean there are certainly steps that can be taken to try to ensure…. Exactly, exactly. Under ultrasound guidance, they can just change the presentation.”
Dr. Nucatola declined to defend her comments when approached by a Daily Wire correspondent outside the courtroom.
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Planned Parenthood is seeking damages from Daleiden and his co-defendants for damages they say were caused by the videos. They are also seeking damages for breach of contract and fraud for misrepresentations made to infiltrate the organisation and for breach of privacy for filming the executives during negotiations.
Planned Parenthood had originally sought $20 million in damages for fraud and trespass against Daleiden and his colleagues. However, Judge William Orrick reduced potential damages to $600,000. Daleiden and his colleagues are denying liability. In situations where he broke the law regarding recording people without their permission Daleiden is claiming he was a journalist and that it is allowed under California law where it can be utilized to prevent a felony assault on a person.
Daleiden recorded Planned Parenthood executives stating they changed abortion techniques to ensure better and more profitable body parts were retrieved for sale. He also claims that the recordings took place in public places, such as restaurants and hotels, where participants have no expectation of privacy.
Planned Parenthood is not suing Daleiden for defamation or slander and in an opening argument the Planned Parent lawyers did not state that the videos were inaccurate or exaggerated. They instead claimed they were filmed through illegal methods. The organization is also claiming Daleiden and his colleagues are guilty of fraud for setting up a fake company and identifications to start the business conversations with the Planned Parenthood executives.
Phelim McAleer is a journalist and filmmaker. He is the author of the New York Times best-selling book “Gosnell &#8211; The Untold Story of America&#8217;s Most Prolific Serial Killer.”

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Abortion Doctor Doesn’t Get The ‘Big Deal’ About Changing Procedures To Get More Valuable Hearts, Lungs, Livers

In a moment caught on video Tuesday, a man who appeared to be serving as a security guard for a Planned Parenthood doctor repeatedly pushed a journalist reporting on the abortion giant&#8217;s lawsuit against pro-life activist David Daleiden. The journalist, Phelim McAleer, who has been reporting on the trial for The Daily Wire, has filed a police report on the incident.
The confrontation took place outside of the San Francisco Court House after Dr. Mary Gatter finished giving evidence in Planned Parenthood&#8217;s suit against Dalieden, who famously released a series of undercover videos on the abortion provider&#8217;s involvement in the fetal tissue, or &#8220;baby body parts,&#8221; business.
Dalieden and his associates secretly filmed Gatter haggling over prices for fetal remains to be provided by Planned Parenthood to a fake company established by the activist journalists. During their secretly taped conversation, Gatter joked that she wanted enough profit from the deal to buy &#8220;a Lamborghini.&#8221; She also complained when Dalieden suggested the price of $50 per fetal tissue specimen, which Gatter described as &#8220;on the low end &#8230; $50 was like 12 years ago.&#8221;
Gatter was also caught on tape suggesting the company might consider using &#8220;less crunchy&#8221; methods of extracting aborted fetal remains to keep them more &#8220;whole,&#8221; and thus more valuable.
&#8220;Write me a three to four paragraph proposal, which I will then take to Laurel and the organization to see if we want to proceed with this,&#8221; Gatter says in Dalieden&#8217;s recording. &#8220;And, then, if we want to pursue this, mutually, I&#8217;ll mention this to Ian and see how he feels about using a &#8216;less crunchy&#8217; technique to get more whole specimens.&#8221;
Outside the courthouse Tuesday, while Dr. Gatter and her associates made their way from the court house to a black SUV waiting on the side of the street, McAleer attempted to get the doctor to answer questions related to the comments she made  featured in the exposé videos.
&#8220;Did you ever get your Lamborghini?&#8221; he asked. &#8220;In the tape you said you asked surgeons to change the method of abortion. Is that legal or ethical?&#8221; asked McAleer, who underscores in his follow-up comments that altering surgical techniques for profit is illegal.
As shown in the footage below, when McAleer attempts to get some responses from Gatter, a man who appears to be her security guard shoves the journalist repeatedly in an attempt to get him out of the way of Gatter and another associate.
&#8220;You&#8217;re assaulting me!&#8221; McAleer responds. &#8220;Take your hands off me! Take your hands off me!&#8221;
Her security guard &#8220;assaulted me several times,&#8221; McAleer says in his follow-up comments, telling The Daily Wire that the guard &#8220;jabbed me three times to prevent me from asking questions.&#8221;
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Before Gatter gave her testimony Tuesday, The Daily Wire has learned that Planned Parenthood&#8217;s lawyers had privately written to the judge looking for their witnesses to be escorted by officers from the U.S. Marshal&#8217;s Office in the courthouse to avoid journalists&#8217; questions. The abortion giant&#8217;s lawyers said two other Planned Parenthood executives had been questioned by a journalist, an apparent reference to questions asked by McAleer last week. They told the judge they had not filed the request for protection through the standard courthouse filing system because they did not want the publicity it would attract. They added that Planned Parenthood&#8217;s security team were retired police officers who were armed and could not enter the courthouse.
Daleiden’s lawyers said they were objecting to the request because it could give the jury the impression that Planned Parenthood had incurred extra security issues in a trial where they were denying that any security issues existed. The lawyer added that it was clear from the previous videos, where Dr. Leslie Drummond Hay and Sherrie Bonner were questioned by McAleer, that the journalist was &#8220;persistent as journalists often are,&#8221; but that the only security incident seemed to come from Planned Parenthood when the security officer appeared to mishandle the journalist.
The lawyer was referring to a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-planned-parenthood-security-guard-pushes-journalist-police-report-filed">video</a> released Monday where the the organization’s Security Officer pushed Phelim McAleer while he was trying to question Planned Parenthood CEO Sherri Bonner.
Planned Parenthood is suing Dalieden for what has been limited to $600,000 by a judge for alleged fraud and trespass against Dalieden and his associates, claiming that he filmed the organization&#8217;s executives illegally by failing to get their permission and fraudulently set up a fake company for the sting operation. Daleiden maintains that he is protected under California laws allowing for such journalistic practices when used to prevent a felony assault on someone.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-planned-parenthood-security-guard-pushes-journalist-police-report-filed">WATCH: Planned Parenthood Security Guard Pushes Journalist; Police Report Filed</a>

WATCH: Planned Parenthood Security Guard Pushes Journalist; Police Report Filed

A Planned Parenthood CEO refused to answer questions Friday about her failure to reprimand a doctor who was secretly filmed boasting about &#8220;less crunchy&#8221; abortion techniques so as to acquire better body parts for sale.
Sheri Bonner, the CEO of Planned Parenthood Pasadena/San Gabriel Valley, refused to answer questions on Friday about evidence she gave in the organization&#8217;s lawsuit against journalist/activist David Daleiden, and his colleagues about undercover videos that showed senior executives negotiate over the sale of body parts from abortions.
The judge refused to let the &#8220;less crunchy&#8221; part of the video be shown in court and interrupted counsel when it was mentioned. Dr. Gatter said she had persuaded a fellow surgeon to employ the &#8220;less crunchy&#8221; technique so as to acquire a less damaged and therefore more valuable and sought-after body part. However, the jury did hear a defense lawyer start to talk about the quote and also heard that Dr. Gatter was &#8220;haggling&#8221; over the price of body parts retrieved from abortions.
At the time, Dr. Gatter was one of the most senior doctors and executives in Planned Parenthood. She was the medical director at Planned Parenthood Pasadena and the president of Planned Parenthood&#8217;s National Medical Directors Council.
It is illegal to profit from the sale of body parts in the United States. Leaving the court after giving evidence, Ms. Bonner refused to answer questions about whether it is legal to change abortion/medical techniques to make them &#8216;less crunchy&#8221; for profit and without the patient’s consent.
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In court, Ms. Bonner said she had not reprimanded Dr. Gatter for the secretly recorded admissions because they were part of a normal &#8220;business conversation.&#8221;
&#8220;Well, because I looked very carefully at the video. I had conversations with our attorney. I saw nothing in that video that would indicate that there was any reason to reprimand. It was a business conversation that was happening between two parties,&#8221; she told the court.
The judge refused to allows Daleiden&#8217;s defense counsel to question her on the &#8220;less crunchy technique&#8221; quote and Ms. Bonner refused to answer questions on the matter from Daily Wire correspondent, Phelim McAleer, as she left the court (see video). Her security detail tried to block the camera and interview before driving her away.
Planned Parenthood is seeking damages from Daleiden and his co-defendants for damages they say were caused by the videos. The abortion giant is also seeking damages for breach of contract and fraud for misrepresentations made to infiltrate the organization and for breach of privacy for filming the executives during negotiations.
Planned Parenthood had originally sought $20 million in damages for fraud and trespass against Daleiden and his colleagues. However, Judge William Orrick reduced potential damages to $600,000. Daleiden and his colleagues deny liability, maintaining that in situations where he broke the law on recording without permission, he was acting as a journalist and such practices are allowed under California law where they can be utilized to prevent a felony assault on a person.
Daleiden recorded Planned Parenthood executives stating they changed abortion techniques to ensure the retrieval of better and more profitable body parts. The recordings, he claims, took place in public places such as restaurants and hotels where participants have no expectation of privacy.
Planned Parenthood is not suing Daleiden for defamation or slander and its lawyers have not stated that the videos were inaccurate or exaggerated. They instead claimed in opening argument that they were filmed through illegal methods. The organization is also claiming Daleiden and his colleagues are guilty of fraud for setting up a fake company and identifications to start the business conversations with the Planned Parenthood executives.
Phelim McAleer is a journalist and filmmaker. He is the author of the New York Times best selling book &#8220;Gosnell &#8211; The Untold Story of America&#8217;s Most Prolific Serial Killer.&#8221;

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WATCH: Planned Parenthood Exec Confronted About Using ‘Less Crunchy’ Abortion Technique To Increase Profit

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A Planned Parenthood abortion doctor secretly filmed boasting that a company purchasing baby parts gave her &#8220;oohs and aahs&#8221; of appreciation because she was so skilled at removing intact limbs was less talkative outside a San Francisco courtroom today.
Dr. Leslie Drummond-Hay, who was the former head of Planned Parenthood Northern California and Mar Monte, said that she was once asked to provide four intact limbs for Stem Express, and was successful in doing so.
Drummond-Hay was giving evidence at a trial in San Francisco in which abortion giant Planned Parenthood is seeking damages from David Daleiden and his co-defendants for the harm they claim was caused by undercover video recordings. The videos in question show senior Planned Parenthood executives haggling over the prices for various fetal body parts.
Planned Parenthood is also seeking damages for breach of contract and fraud for misrepresentations made to infiltrate the organization, and for breach of privacy for filming the executives during negotiations.
Offering evidence in court, Dr. Drummond-Hay claimed that Daleiden, who was acting as an executive of a body part buying company, was the first to raise the issue of money.
However, under cross-examination, and after the video was played, she admitted that she had, in fact, approached the booth where Daleiden was set up at a National Abortion Federation conference in 2014. Dr. Drummond-Hay agreed that she started the conversation and was the first to mention money in relation to making body parts available.
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Dr. Drummond-Hay was less talkative when she was asked about her evidence outside the courtroom.
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Phelim McAleer is a journalist and filmmaker. He is the author of the New York Times best selling book &#8220;Gosnell &#8211; The Untold Story of America&#8217;s Most Prolific Serial Killer.&#8221;
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WATCH: Planned Parenthood Doctor Who Boasted About Providing Intact Baby Limbs From Abortion Confronted

A Planned Parenthood doctor has revealed that there is a strong demand for aborted babies’ livers and kidneys from organizations that harvest the bodies provided by the abortion giant.
Dr. Thomas Moran was giving evidence in a lawsuit the organization has filed against David Daleiden and his colleagues over undercover videos that show Planned Parenthood senior executives negotiate over the sale of body parts from abortions.
Moran, who is a medical director of Planned Parenthood Southwest, San Diego, told the court about how he ended up being secretly recorded while talking to Daleiden and other undercover researchers at a Planned Parenthood Conference in 2015.
Moran agreed that the undercover researchers did not seek him out; rather, Moran and his colleagues approached the booth where Daleiden and his associates were posing as legitimate tissue and organ buyers.
&#8220;They had an interesting flyer,&#8221; Moran told the court this week. &#8220;I was encouraged by the organizers to support the people who were supporting us.&#8221;
Moran agreed that he told Daleiden there was a demand for babies’ livers in the work he did for Planned Parenthood.
&#8220;I believe that was in reference to the tissue procurement company that was currently associated with Planned Parenthood,&#8221; he told the court, referencing ABR, an existing organ and tissue buying and selling company.
Moran agreed that &#8220;as a result of abortions that would be performed there, including abortions [he] did, they would sometimes place a demand for certain organs, including livers.&#8221;
&#8220;I said liver.  But whether it was actually — they wanted a liver or a kidney or a — I don&#8217;t know, intestines,&#8221; he said.
Moran agreed that he told Daleiden that he wanted the company to buy the rest of the baby parts, saying there are &#8220;barrels or buckets of them&#8221; that he &#8220;wanted to get rid of.&#8221;
Moran described the body parts as &#8220;medical waste.&#8221;
Planned Parenthood is suing Daleiden and his co-defendants for damage they say was caused by the videos. They are also seeking damages for breach of contract and fraud for misrepresentations made to infiltrate the organization, as well as for breach of privacy for secretly filming the executives during negotiations.
Planned Parenthood’s original attempt to extract $20 million in damages for fraud and trespass against Daleiden and his colleagues was reduced by Judge William Orrick to a maximum potential penalty of $600,000.
Daleiden and his colleagues deny liability. In situations where he broke the law by recording people without their permission, Daleiden argues that he was a journalist and that such recording is allowed under California law where it can be utilized to prevent a felony assault on a person.
Daleiden recorded Planned Parenthood executives stating they changed abortion techniques to ensure better and more profitable body parts were retrieved for sale. Daleiden also maintains that the recordings took place in public places, such as restaurants and hotels, where participants have no expectation of privacy.
Planned Parenthood is not suing Daleiden for defamation or slander and in their opening argument, Planned Parent lawyers did not state that the videos were inaccurate or exaggerated. Instead, the abortion provider’s attorneys claim the recordings were made illegally. The organization is also accusing Daleiden and his colleagues of fraud for setting up a fake company and identifications to start the business conversations with the Planned Parenthood executives.
Phelim McAleer is a journalist and filmmaker. He is the author of the New York Times bestselling book &#8220;Gosnell &#8211; The Untold Story of America&#8217;s Most Prolific Serial Killer.&#8221;

Planned Parenthood Doctor Admits In Court: Strong Demand For Aborted Babies’ Livers, Kidneys, Intestines

An arson attack on a Planned Parenthood facility that was reported as a hate crime inspired by undercover videos was actually an incident of domestic violence, a senior executive of the organization has been forced to admit in a San Francisco court room.
Jenna Tosh, the CEO of Planned Parenthood California Central Coast, made the admission under cross-examination Thursday in a lawsuit the organization has taken against David Daleiden and his colleagues over undercover videos that showed senior executives negotiate over the sale of body parts from abortions.
Tosh told the trial in San Francisco that in the immediate three months after the videos were released there was a ten-fold increase in security incidents. Planned Parenthood is seeking damages from Daleiden and his co-defendants for damages they say were caused by the videos. They are also seeking damages for breach of contract and fraud for misrepresentations made to infiltrate the organization and for breach of privacy for filming the executives during negotiations.
However, under cross-examination, Tosh admitted that the arson, one of the alleged security incidents following the release of the videos, was not connected to the release and was as a result of domestic violence involving a violent partner of a staff member. At the time, the fire at a clinic in Modesto was widely reported as a hate attack. The left-wing outlet Think Progress said the arson attack was inspired by Daleiden’s “malicious video campaign.”
Tosh also admitted that police believed the same perpetrator was behind the smashing of a window at the premises. She added that the organization had received a letter from a concerned resident apologizing for the attack and offering prayers for the local Planned Parenthood. However, she admitted Planned Parenthood also counted the prayerful and apologetic letter as one of the “security incidents” that made up the alleged increase after the Daleiden video releases.
Tosh said that since learning the true nature of the attack, Planned Parenthood had made no attempt to correct its listing as a “hate crime.”
Tosh also stated that they counted critical tweets and phone calls as “security incidents” after the release of the video series.
Planned Parenthood had originally sought $20 million in damages for fraud and trespass against Daleiden and his colleagues. However, Judge William Orrick reduced potential damages to $600,000. Daleiden and his colleagues are denying liability. In situations where he broke the law regarding recording people without their permission Daleiden is claiming he was a journalist and that it is allowed under California law where it can be utilized to prevent a felony assault on a person. Daleiden recorded Planned Parenthood executives stating they changed abortion techniques to ensure better and more profitable body parts were retrieved for sale. He also claims that the recordings took place in public places such as restaurants and hotels where participants have no expectation of privacy.
Planned Parenthood is not suing Daleiden for defamation or slander, and in an opening argument, the Planned Parent lawyers did not state that the videos were inaccurate or exaggerated. They instead claimed they were filmed through illegal methods. The organization is also claiming Daleiden and his colleagues are guilty of fraud for setting up a fake company and identifications to start the business conversations with the Planned Parenthood executives.
Phelim McAleer is a journalist and filmmaker. He is the author of the New York Times bestselling book &#8220;Gosnell &#8211; The Untold Story of America&#8217;s Most Prolific Serial Killer.&#8221;

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