Court Blocks Anti-Abortion Group From Releasing More Anti-Planned Parenthood Videos
An anti-abortion group has been barred from releasing more footage featuring a California company that facilitates donations of fetal tissue.
The court order issued this week blocks the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) from releasing video footage featuring employees who work at StemExpress, a biological company that partners with some Planned Parenthood clinics to help transfer fetal tissue donations to medical research facilities.
The unfolding controversy plaguing Planned Parenthood has been focused on this type of tissue donation, which CMP misleadingly characterizes as trafficking in baby parts. So far, stoking moral outrage over the practice has been pretty successful. The latest video released by CMP, for instance, features a woman who says she was hired by StemExpress to dissect aborted fetuses. She recounts passing out on her first day on the job.
Planned Parenthood emphasizes that it’s simply helping patients who choose to donate fetal tissue, which can play a role in helping scientists develop treatments for degenerative diseases. The national women’s health organization has condemned CMP’s secret recordings for potentially violating the privacy of staff and patients at their clinics.
This week’s court order appears to be the first official legal action that has resulted from CMP’s videos, which have been heavily edited to cast Planned Parenthood in an unflattering light. According to the Associated Press, the temporary restraining order will remain in place until August 19, when the issue will be the subject of a hearing.
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illinoisboy1977 July 30th, 2015 at 10:47
If the issue is whether or not the videos are edited for the sole purpose of painting Planned Parenthood in a negative light, the judge could subpoena all raw video from which the previous and future releases were derived. Once the judge has an opportunity to watch the raw video and compare it to the released video, he/she can make an informed legal judgement. If the videos are merely edited for run time, the defendants could resume their activities, as no laws have been violated. If the videos are edited for content, the judge could then order that the raw video be released, as well as clear the way for a slander/libel suit.
arc99 July 30th, 2015 at 11:03
The real issue is whether Planned Parenthood as an organization is doing anything illegal. By all reports, they are not.
ACORN, an organization that did a lot of good for a lot of people was destroyed by a bullsh*t video hyped on FOX news. It allegedly portrayed an ACORN employee collaborating with someone who wanted to bring in underage Mexican girls for child prostitution. What FOX, the convicted criminal James O Keefe who made the video, and the gutless politicians who defunded ACORN did not tell us is that the employee in the video contacted law enforcement the next day.
Regardless of why the edits were done, the true believers have already determined that just as with ACORN which did nothing wrong, Planned Parenthood must go. Meanwhile, the current corporate identify of defense contractor Blackwater continues to receive hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer funded contracts, despite the fact that one of their employees was convicted in a court of law of multiple murders.
This Planed Parenthood “controversy” is just the latest attempt from the right wing bullsh*t machine to destroy another great organization whose agenda is despised by the ideologues on the right. Meanwhile the tax dollars continue to flow to a company whose employees murdered innocent people.
If we do not care that a company which had murderers on the payroll is still getting tax dollars, do not insult my intelligence pretending this issue is about Planned Parenthood’s use of taxpayer dollars for practices that some people find morally questionable. It is about anti abortion zealots lying to advance their agenda.
Dwendt44 July 30th, 2015 at 11:30
Planned Parenthood, like ACORN, mostly helped the poor and lower income people, that’s why it must GO! Can’t have that. The poor need to disappear.
They are a drain on the 1%.
illinoisboy1977 July 30th, 2015 at 11:35
Actually, the only issue I was talking about was the issue before the court: the ability of the producers to continue releasing their videos. If they selectively edited the videos, to paint PP in an unfavorable light, they could be sued for slander/libel. If they only edited for time, but not content or context, they should be free to continue releasing them, unless they ran afoul of state video/audio recording statutes. In that case, they’d first have to challenge such statutes in court.
tracey marie July 30th, 2015 at 11:45
You know they edited it to change the narrative to fit their agenda, stop with the deflections
illinoisboy1977 July 30th, 2015 at 13:27
Actually, that will be for the judge to decide.
Jimmy Fleck July 30th, 2015 at 12:27
I thought they posted the unedited full length videos as well as the edited videos on their website.
illinoisboy1977 July 30th, 2015 at 13:25
I didn’t realize it, at first, but they’re only barred from showing videos that contain representatives from the stem cell research company. At least, until the August 19th hearing.
StoneyCurtisll July 31st, 2015 at 05:28
Right On~!
tracey marie July 30th, 2015 at 11:52
There is no other purpose and you know it, The courts know it as well.
illinoisboy1977 July 30th, 2015 at 13:26
That’s why it’s in court. So the judge can decide if the videos are slanderous or not.
tracey marie July 30th, 2015 at 15:48
so your brain does not work proerly and you are unable to decide for your self or you agree with brietbarting tactics
illinoisboy1977 July 30th, 2015 at 15:57
I don’t disagree with the tactic, as long as they present the full and unedited video for verification. Investigations require subterfuge, in order to collect unadulterated data. The court will decide if these videos are accurate, or not.
Obewon July 30th, 2015 at 19:47
Anti-choice Constitutional illiterates already viciously and Dishonestly slandered womens HC workers at PP et al. (R)WNJ’s haven’t told the truth yet in the 21st Century. Over half of U.S. voters are women and that’s why the ladies decide elections. Not you or I.
Women opposed to abortion still FAVOR that choice for all women. Good luck wishing for a return to your back alley misogyny.
Darksnark July 31st, 2015 at 03:15
The issue is the fact that, in California, it’s a crime to record confidential conversations without the knowing consent of all parties involved: http://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/california-recording-law
Any of CMP’s videos shot in California that don’t meet that legal standard could be found to be in violation of both civil and criminal statutes, and the people who took part in their creation could be sued and criminally prosecuted….
T Saint July 31st, 2015 at 14:28
It’s not in a Public space. parties has an objectively reasonable expectation that no one is listening in or overhearing the conversation. This is where there is a fine Line. Those in the Video were in a public place where any one could hear their conversation. Here is the fine Line; may or may not have “an objectively reasonable expectation that no one is listening in or overhearing the conversation. So those in the Restaurant were not in a place in the Restaurant where it was more private away from everyone. So there is no reasonable expectation that no one was listening.
NW10 July 30th, 2015 at 11:03
The Planned Parenthood “outrage” is a clear ploy to gin up votes for Republicans during an election year in which they are very much vulnerable. This is evident in the fact that in 1993, both Democrats and Republicans voted to make the donation of fetal tissue legal by wide margins.
Tommie July 30th, 2015 at 11:22
But the right’s editing department will not have anything to do!!
Dwendt44 July 30th, 2015 at 11:32
No they will keep on doing what the anti-abortion folks have been doing all along. Lying, distorting, and exaggerating. This is just a speed bump for them.
It’s been going on since 1973, they just are getting more vicious and more sophisticated.
labman57 July 30th, 2015 at 11:47
Mindset of Daleiden and his fellow O’Keefe-esque propagandists at the ‘Center for Medical Progress’:
Ours is a righteous cause, and therefore we are are not beholden to state laws or the standard ethics of journalism and documentary production.
Bunya July 30th, 2015 at 13:45
I wonder if the people in the picture above actually know what they’re protesting. Anybody who wants to deny poor people access to birth control and/or cancer screenings are cruel and heartless – and have nothing better to do with their time than to make fools of themselves.
Red Eye Robot August 5th, 2015 at 08:45
Poor people can’t get birth control or cancer screening through Obamacare?
dewired4u July 30th, 2015 at 15:03
Evey time I have a wet dream millions of tiny innocent squirming little cute sperm die a horrible death..oh the humanity…save the sperm.
bpollen July 30th, 2015 at 15:59
Uhhhh…. Thanks for sharing?
tracey marie July 30th, 2015 at 19:32
I thought it was funny.
bpollen July 31st, 2015 at 04:11
It was, but in a kind of cringe-worthy way…
tracey marie July 31st, 2015 at 11:49
true. I had to think for a second about the upvote.
Warman1138 July 31st, 2015 at 18:53
There are banks with cryogenic storage facilities for that, waste not want not. heh.
Warman1138 July 30th, 2015 at 15:44
Center for Medical Progress, nice name, too bad they don’t act like or live up to it.
Dwendt44 July 31st, 2015 at 17:13
That’s the right wing trend of late. Nice, soft and pleasing sounding titles, with the poison deep in the details. That goes for groups as well as bills filed in Congress.