Court Orders Anti-Choice Center for Medical Progress to Turn Over Video Footage to National Abortion Federation

A defeat for the anti-choice propagandists
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RH Reality Check’s Jessica Pielko reports that David Daleiden, head of the Orwellian “Center for Medical Progress” group that created the deceptive Planned Parenthood “sting” videos, has been ordered by a federal court to hand over the full video footage to the National Abortion Foundation and to the court.

This should be very interesting.

The order is the latest legal volley in the fight over heavily edited videos used by the anti-choice front group in a smear campaign against Planned Parenthood alleging the reproductive health-care provider violated federal law. NAF, whose members include abortion providers, sued to block release of additional footage. U.S. District Court Judge William Orrick in July issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) in NAF’s favor, blocking CMP from publishing videos containing information that NAF alleges CMP stole.

NAF alleges that CMP signed confidentiality and nondisclosure agreements, by which CMP never intended to be bound, in order to gain access to NAF’s annual meetings and members fraudulently and under false pretenses.

[…]

Congressman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Issues, issued the subpoena through this committee following one of the congressional hearings and after claims that CMP could not produce the full video footage because of Orrick’s TRO.

Chaffetz’s subpoena commands Daleiden, as executive director of CMP, to “produce documents, communications and video footage referring or relating to the acquisition, preparation, and sale of fetal tissue or relating to the involvement of Planned Parenthood and its affiliates in the sale of fetal tissue, manipulation of abortion procedures, and/or related conversations.”

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