Stories tagged with: center for medical progress

• Pro-lifers decry court win for Planned Parenthood

  by Tom Strode, posted Monday, November 18, 2019 (4 years ago)

  

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  SAN FRANCISCO (BP) -- Pro-life advocates decried an award of more than $2.2 million to Planned Parenthood in a suit involving undercover investigations that provided evidence the country's leading abortion provider traded in the sale of baby body parts.

  A federal jury in San Francisco issued the penalties Nov. 15 against the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) and, among others, two investigators who 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. David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt also clandestinely recorded conversations with officials of fetal tissue procurement businesses that worked with Planned Parenthood. Read More

• Felony charges dropped over baby body parts videos

  by Diana Chandler, posted Tuesday, July 26, 2016 (8 years ago)

  

  Photo by Bonnie Pritchett/Southern Baptist TEXAN

  HOUSTON (BP) -- All criminal charges have been dismissed against two investigators who posed as procurers of aborted baby body parts in undercover videos of interactions with Planned Parenthood executives.

  The Harris County District Attorney's office in Houston dropped charges today (July 26) against Center for Medical Progress founder David Daleiden and his CMP coworker Sandra Merritt, who had sought to show in secretly recorded videos that Planned Parenthood illegally profits from the sale of aborted baby tissue. Read More

• Planned Parenthood videos' impact at 1-year mark

  by Tom Strode, posted Thursday, July 14, 2016 (8 years ago)

  

  WASHINGTON (BP) -- Planned Parenthood remains a target of Capitol Hill investigation but retains its federal funding a year after undercover video first revealed the abortion giant's trade in baby body parts.

  A special congressional panel issued an interim update Thursday (July 14) on the one-year anniversary of the release of the first video showing Planned Parenthood officials discussing the sale of organs from aborted children. The series of secretly recorded videos featured Planned Parenthood executives discussing their sale of fetal parts as well as their willingness to manipulate the abortion procedure to ... Read More

• House documents strike at abortion clinic claims

  by Tom Strode, posted Friday, April 29, 2016 (8 years ago)

  "No culture can call itself humane while it tolerates such wickedness." -- Russell Moore

  WASHINGTON (BP) -- Denials by Planned Parenthood and its allies of profiteering in the fetal tissue business have received a blow from congressional investigators.

  A House of Representatives panel offered evidence at an April 20 hearing that abortion clinics profit from trade in body parts of babies in apparent violation of federal law. The House Select Read More

• Most Americans unfazed by Planned Parenthood videos

  by Bob Smietana, posted Thursday, February 18, 2016 (8 years ago)

  

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- "What videos?" seems to be the reaction of most Americans to the series of undercover videos targeting Planned Parenthood over the past six months, according to a new LifeWay Research survey.

  The videos made national headlines, provoked outrage in Congress and prompted investigations in about a dozen states. In showing undercover activists from the Center for Medical Progress discussing with Planned Parenthood officials possible payments for donated fetal remains, CMP contends the videos show Planned Parenthood illegally selling fetal remains. Planned Parenthood denies the claim. Read More

• CMP activists indicted by Houston grand jury

  by David Roach, posted Tuesday, January 26, 2016 (8 years ago)

  HOUSTON (BP) -- The Houston grand jury charged with investigating Planned Parenthood in conjunction with undercover videos produced by the pro-life Center for Medical Progress has said the abortion provider broke no laws and instead has indicted CMP activists on two felony counts.

  In response to the indictments, a spokeswoman for Texas Right to Life told Baptist Press the grand jury process "reeks of something amiss." She said the case illustrates "a pattern" in the Harris County district attorney's office of failing to issue indictments in "abortion-related" ... Read More

• Producer defends ethics of Planned Parenthood videos

  by Sharayah Colter/Southern Baptist TEXAN, posted Friday, January 22, 2016 (8 years ago)

  

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  WASHINGTON (BP) -- The process used by the Center for Medical Progress to obtain undercover videos outing Planned Parenthood's sale of aborted baby parts was not morally wrong, CMP founder David Daleiden said at the Evangelicals for Life conference in Washington.

  Daleiden shared his convictions during the opening day of the Jan. 21-22 conference in an interview with Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, and Jim Daly, president of Focus on the Family. Co-sponsored by the ERLC and Focus on the Family, Evangelicals for Life is being held as a pre-event to Saturday's annual March for Life in Washington. Read More

• Planned Parenthood lawsuit called 'frivolous'

  by Leigh Jones/WORLD News Service, posted Tuesday, January 19, 2016 (8 years ago)

  ASHEVILLE, N.C. (BP)-- Planned Parenthood filed suit Jan. 14 in federal court against the Center for Medical Progress, accusing the group of conducting "a complex criminal enterprise conceived and executed by anti-abortion extremists." Read More

• 26-year-old in faceoff with Planned Parenthood

  by Staff/WORLD News Service, posted Monday, July 27, 2015 (9 years ago)

  

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  ASHEVILLE, N.C. (BP) -- A 26-year-old activist with a video camera has moved to the forefront of cultural challengers to the nation's largest abortion provider.

  David Daleiden and his group Center for Medical Progress are in the process of releasing a much-publicized series of videos he says show Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) senior executives involved in selling baby body parts. Read More