The same judge who ordered a temporary restraining order on The Center for Medical Progress (CMP), forbidding the organization to release any more videos about the trafficking of fetal baby parts, has ruled that all unedited videos can be turned over to Congress.The Thomas More Society, the law firm representing the CMP, is reporting that U.S. District Judge William H. Orrick III issued a ruling yesterday which will allow David Daleiden of the CMP to respond to Congress’ subpoena seeking all unedited video footage of his undercover investigation into trafficking in fetal body parts by Planned Parenthood and other National Abortion Federation affiliates.
“The National Abortion Federation has gone to extraordinary lengths to keep David Daleiden’s footage of its annual meetings out of the hands of law enforcement and the Congress,” said Peter Breen, Thomas More Society Special Counsel.
“We’re pleased that the District Court has today decided to allow Congress to seek the unedited footage of the wrongdoing uncovered by David’s investigation. We will continue to urge the District Court to allow David to release more undercover videos featuring the footage from these annual meetings to the public, so that the American people can make their own assessment of the practices of Planned Parenthood and the National Abortion Federation.”
The National Abortion Federation wanted the judge to forbid release of the videos to Congress in order to stall the progress of the investigation, but Judge Orrick ruled against them, saying that “Congress has the power to investigate, and it is not up to the courts to go beyond the narrow confines of determining that the committee’s inquiry is in its province.”
The judge also stated that, “ . . . [I]n our Constitutional system, there are three equal branches of government, and courts should refrain from creating needless friction with a coordinate branch of government.”
As the Society explains, Congressman Jason Chaffetz, Chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, authorized the subpoena for the unedited footage in the wake of claims by Planned Parenthood that the videos were somehow doctored, a claim vigorously denied by Daleiden.
However, yesterday’s ruling will now enable Congress to review all of the footage and reassure the public that the videos about Planned Parenthood and the National Abortion Federation are authentic and true.
The Society is continuing to press for the release of more videos to the public and is prepared to fight all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court to enable the CMP to release unseen footage.
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