{"id":185715,"date":"2018-07-20T07:31:26","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T12:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=185715"},"modified":"2018-07-20T15:21:28","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T20:21:28","slug":"daleiden-planned-parenthood-profit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/daleiden-planned-parenthood-profit\/","title":{"rendered":"Daleiden to court: Make Planned Parenthood prove it didn’t profit from body parts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Thomas More Society announced in a press release<\/a> this week that David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt of the Center for Medical Progress<\/a>, who exposed the abortion<\/a> industry’s trafficking in fetal body parts in a series of forensically verified videos, have filed a letter<\/a> asking the court “to insist that Planned Parenthood produce the requested documents and explanations” related to its “income and costs related to fetal tissue procurement.”<\/p>\n

Up to this point, Planned Parenthood has produced no documents regarding its exchange of aborted baby body parts for so-called “compensation.” The cases against Daleiden and Merritt have focused on whether their undercover videotaping of abortion industry employees was illegal. According to the Thomas More Society press release, “The abortion provider claims that questions about invoices showing that Planned Parenthood affiliates profited from the sale of baby body parts have ‘zero bearing’ on the issues in the case” — but Daleiden’s attorneys note that Planned Parenthood’s lawsuits claim CMP broke the law by videotaping them, and that the videos themselves are “misleading.” Therefore, the company’s invoices are relevant.<\/p>\n

READ: <\/a><\/strong>Former StemExpress employee smashes claim Planned Parenthood had ‘shipping costs’ for aborted baby parts<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

TMS Special Counsel Peter Breen stated, “The idea that this huge profiteer thinks that they can just say something without having to produce relevant evidence is preposterous.” He added, “If the payments received for fetal body tissue exceeded the allowable costs, then Planned Parenthood and its affiliates were first, engaged in criminal conduct, and next, making a profit off of selling aborted baby parts. If they were doing nothing illegal, all they need to do to prove it is open the books.\u201d<\/p>\n

TMS points out in its press release that “it has already been established that Planned Parenthood and its affiliates received payments for procuring fetal tissue.” What’s in question is whether those payments “exceeded the legally allowable expenses.” But CMP caught at least one Planned Parenthood medical director haggling over prices and joking about wanting to earn enough to get a Lamborghini:<\/p>\n