Author Topic: Grand Jury Indicts Abortion Foes Behind Video Undercover (Read 528 times)

RomanCatholic1953 · « **on:** January 26, 2016, 08:23:23 PM »

Grand Jury Indicts Abortion Foes Behind Undercover Videos Selling Baby Parts

Date: Tuesday, 26-Jan-2016 14:29:50

If Texas would have done it's JOB perhaps citizens would not have felt the need to step up and do the investigating for them.

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A hαɾɾιs County grand jury on Monday indicted the videographers behind undercover recordings of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Houston and cleared the women's health provider of any wrongdoing.

The indictments — part of the county prosecutor's investigation into allegations that Planned Parenthood was illegally selling fetal tissue — include charges against anti-abortion activists David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt for tampering with a governmental record, a second-degree felony that carries a punishment of up to 20 years in prison. The grand jury handed down a second charge for Daleiden for “Prohibition of the Purchase and Sale of Human Organs," according to the hαɾɾιs County District Attorney's office. That charge is a class A misdemeanor that carries a punishment of up to a year in jail.

The grand jury cleared Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast in Houston of breaking any laws.

State Republican leaders last year pushed for investigations into Planned Parenthood after videos were released depicting Planned Parenthood officials across the nation discussing how their providers obtain fetal tissue for medical research.

Among the undercover videos were recordings of staff at Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, where two abortion foes in April misrepresented themselves as research executives and provided fake California drivers’ licenses. The videographers visited the facility last April “under the guise of discussing tissue research with our clinic research staff,” according to Planned Parenthood.

The two people who visited the Houston facility — including a center where abortions are performed — identified themselves as executives with Biomax Procurement Services, a shell company created by Daleiden's Center for Medical Progress. The undercover video, released in August, shows the two videographers and Planned Parenthood staff discussing the administrative costs of harvesting fetal organs at various stages of gestation.

“The people behind this fraud lied and broke the law in order to spread malicious lies about Planned Parenthood to advance their extreme anti-abortion political agenda,” said Melaney Linton, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast. “As the dust settles and the truth comes out, it's become totally clear that the only people who engaged in wrongdoing are the criminals behind this fraud, and we're glad they are being held accountable.”

A request for comment from the Center for Medical Progress was not immediately returned.

hαɾɾιs County District Attorney Devon Anderson launched a criminal investigation into Planned Parenthood in August at the urging of state leaders, including Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick.

Despite the grand jury's indictments, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott said the state would move forward with its investigations of Planned Parenthood, including inquiries by the Texas Health and Human Services Commission and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

“Nothing about today’s announcement in hαɾɾιs County impacts the state’s ongoing investigation," Abbott said in statement. "The State of Texas will continue to protect life, and I will continue to support legislation prohibiting the sale or transfer of fetal tissue.”

In a statement confirming the ongoing investigation, Paxton said, “The fact remains that the videos exposed the horrific nature of abortion and the shameful disregard for human life of the abortion industry."

The sale of fetal tissue is already illegal. But if a patient consents, abortion clinics may donate fetal tissue for use in medical research. Federal law allows clinics to be reimbursed for costs “associated with the transportation, implantation, processing preservation, quality control, or storage of human fetal tissue” for research purposes.

Planned Parenthood health centers in Texas do not currently donate tissue for medical research, according to the organization. Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast in Houston participated in fetal tissue donation in 2010 when it partnered with the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston for a study on causes of miscarriages.

State Republican leaders also cited the video in their efforts to boot Planned Parenthood from the state Medicaid program over what they called "acts of misconduct." Planned Parenthood officials in November responded with a federal lawsuit seeking to block Texas' efforts. The organization is still receiving federal and state funds through the program.

http://www.texastribune.org/2016/01/25/grand-jury-indicts-abortion-foes-behind-undercover/?mc_cid=e33c403fcc&mc_eid=f29dbea23e

RomanCatholic1953 · « **Reply #1 on:** January 26, 2016, 08:45:39 PM »

Christ or Chaos

Criminalizing Truth

Although I am working on a long commentary to follow up on my revised commentary of Friday, January 22, 2016, the Feast of Saints Vincent and Anastasius, In the Face of the Daily Slaughter of the Preborn, the news that undercover videographer David Daleiden of the California-based Centers for Medical Progress, and a former employee of Planned Barrenhood, Sandra Merritt, have been indicted by a grand jury in hαɾɾιs County in Houston, Texas, necessitates a brief commentary and links to past articles. A stand-alone commentary will await until the indictment itself is unsealed and has been published.

Suffice it for the moment to say that although there is no need for hidden cameras to know the truth about Planned Barrenhood, the fact remains that David Daleiden, a Catholic who is just twenty-six years of age, helped to expose the demonic attitudes of those who talked about the parts of aborted babies in a very cavalier, if not at times gleefully giddy, manner as they disclosed how much this organization, which has been evil from its very inceptions, receives as “donations” from medical laboratories for those body parts. On the face of it at this writing, it stands to reason that the producers of every news program, including 60 Minutes and its various spinoffs, that has used undercover videos, fake identities and sham companies as fronts for their exposes should be indicted as well.

Moreover, each of the convictions obtained in the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s “Abscam” entrapment cases of the late 1970s and 1980s should be thrown out as the FBI employed a convicted swindler, Melvin Weinberg, to entice members of Congress and various local government officials to take bribes from a completely fictional company, Abdul Enterprises. The goal of this investigation was to tempt public officials to commit a crime, thereby placing them in the near occasion of sin.

David Daleiden, on the other hand, and his associates were able to get Planned Barrenhood employees to freely reveal facts about this evil organization’s bloody business.

We live at a time when actual crimes committed by presidential appointees (Fast and Furious, the misuse of the Internal Revenue Service to target “conservative” not-for-profit groups applying for Federal tax-exempt status, the cover-up of the facts about the assault on the American compound in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11, 2012, and Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton’s deliberate and flagrant violations of Federal law and Department of State policy on the handling of classified intelligence information on her private e-mail server) and those at the local level (crimes against property and persons in various riots, including the ones in Ferguson, Missouri, and Baltimore, Maryland) go completely unpunished while those exposed the bloody crimes of baby-killing body-snatchers must be punished to the fullest extent of the law.

Then again, I wrote about the penchant of those steeped in evil to kill the messengers over and over again nearly six months ago now.

This is a time of profound chastisement, and things are going to get worse—much worse, no matter who wins the presidential election on Tuesday, November 8, 2016.

My next complete commentary should be completed within the next four or five hours.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saints Peter and Paul, pray for us.

Saint Polycarp, pray for us.

Neil Obstat · « **Reply #2 on:** January 26, 2016, 09:10:50 PM »

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What a mess.

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poche · « **Reply #3 on:** January 28, 2016, 12:14:08 AM »

You tell the truth and you go to jail. What else is new. Jesus said, "Those who recognize me before others, I will recognize before my Heavenly Father. Those who deny me before others, I will deny before my Heavenly Father."

RomanCatholic1953 · « **Reply #4 on:** January 28, 2016, 12:41:04 AM »

These Grand Juries are supposed to be a makeup of the people of the
community. In this case these Jurors were most likely the professionals
and liberal type whom have settled opinions on pro life issues.

RomanCatholic1953 · « **Reply #5 on:** January 28, 2016, 08:54:51 PM »

AP Report: Houston Grand Jury Didn't Vote on charges against Planned
Parenthood.

From Catholic World Report online.

http://www.catholicworldreport.com/Blog/4533/ap_report_houston_grand_jury_didnt_vote_on_charges_against_planned_parenthood.aspx