Anti-abortion activists fighting felony charges

Anti-abortion activists fighting felony charges

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Secret investigators who uncovered Planned Parenthood’s latest scandal are now fighting felony charges.

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced 15 felony counts March 28 against David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt, charging them with illegally recording or conspiring to record confidential communications.

The undercover investigators with the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) secretly recorded videos of Planned Parenthood executives discussing their sale of fetal parts as well as their willingness to manipulate the abortion procedure to preserve organs for sale and use.

The investigators also clandestinely recorded conversations with officials of fetal tissue procurement businesses that work with Planned Parenthood.

It is not the first time Daleiden and Merritt have faced charges after posing as representatives of a biologics firm to record the conversations.

Harris County dropped charges against the pair in July 2016 stemming from their undercover work at a Planned Parenthood center in Houston.

A day after the California charges were announced, CMP released its latest undercover video, which showed a former Planned Parenthood medical director explaining late-term abortions to procure body parts.

Her description seemed to imply some babies were delivered alive in the abortion process but died outside the womb. (BP)