Pro-Life Journalists Indicted

Planned Parenthood, Houston, TX

by Gary Bauer, Contributing Author: A grand jury in Harris County, Texas, has indicted two pro-life journalists, David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt, with the Center for Medical Progress (CMP). As you no doubt recall, CMP is the group responsible for the disturbing undercover videos that exposed Planned Parenthood's trafficking in baby body parts.

The grand jury was initially formed to investigate whether a Houston Planned Parenthood clinic had illegally sold fetal body parts. Instead, it cleared Planned Parenthood and somehow ended up indicting the journalists for attempting to illegally purchase baby body parts.

How can someone buy something without a seller? Daleiden faces one year in prison for that alleged offense.

The grand jury also charged Daleiden and Merritt with a second crime -- falsifying a government document, which carries a 20-year prison sentence.

The Center for Medical Progress issued a statement denying it broke any laws, saying that it "uses the same undercover techniques that investigative journalists have used for decades in exercising our First Amendment rights to freedom of speech and of the press."

Planned Parenthood and other pro-abortion groups are claiming a moral victory, suggesting that the indictments vindicate their work.

Really? Let's roll the tape.

Here's one in which a Planned Parenthood executive talks about how she illegally manipulates abortion procedures so they get the right parts "intact." "I'm gonna basically crush below, I'm gonna crush above, and I'm gonna see if I can get it all intact," the doctor says.

Here's another video featuring a Planned Parenthood executive haggling over the price of aborted tissue and joking that she'd like a Lamborghini.

Responding to the news of the indictments, Texas Governor Greg Abbott said, "Nothing about today's announcement in Harris County impacts the state's ongoing investigation. The State of Texas will continue to protect life, and I will continue to support legislation prohibiting the sale or transfer of fetal tissue."
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Gary Bauer is a conservative family values advocate and serves as president of American Values and chairman of the Campaign for Working Families

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