{"id":211725,"date":"2019-10-02T16:47:39","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T21:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=211725"},"modified":"2019-10-02T16:47:39","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T21:47:39","slug":"civil-trial-center-medical-progress-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/civil-trial-center-medical-progress-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil trial against Center for Medical Progress investigators begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>The civil trial against Center for Medical Progress is set to begin today with jury selection followed by opening statements from both sides tomorrow, October 3, at the San Francisco Federal Courthouse. It could last as long as eight weeks.<\/p>\n<p>This case invovles a 15-count civil suit filed by Planned Parenthood against the Center for Medical Progress (CMP), CMP&#8217;s undercover subsidiary BioMax Procurement Services, LLC, two former CMP Board Directors including Operation Rescue president Troy Newman, along with investigators Adrian Lopez, Sandra Merritt, and David Daleiden. Planned Parenthood is attempting to discredit and silence these groups and individuals and is seeking $16 million from the defendants for exposing the trafficking of the body parts of aborted children.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Biggest Pro-Life Trial in 2 Decades: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PlannedParenthood?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PlannedParenthood<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RICO?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#RICO<\/a> Case Against Pro-Life Journalists Begins Today <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PPSellsBabyBodyParts?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PPSellsBabyBodyParts<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IYiKx5CqvK\">https:\/\/t.co\/IYiKx5CqvK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Operation Rescue (@operationrescue) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/operationrescue\/status\/1179409203938639873?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 2, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>There are no criminal penalties with this civil case but\u00a0Planned Parenthood is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.operationrescue.org\/archives\/biggest-pro-life-trial-in-2-decades-planned-parenthood-rico-case-against-pro-life-journalists-begins-today\/?fbclid=IwAR3A01REcq0dncGLtHFchVy9aX2J-ET8I55fCocCDST8D_5VMmXJVDZDxHs\">claiming<\/a> that CMP violated the &#8220;Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations&#8221; (RICO) law when CMP investigators went undercover at Planned Parenthood and National Abortion Federation meetings in order to expose the sale of baby body parts. CMP began releasing videos, including of those meetings, in <strong>2015<\/strong>, and Planned Parenthood immediately attempted to discredit CMP.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ:\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/david-daleiden-reveals-undercover-exposing-baby-body\/\">David Daleiden reveals to court what led to undercover sting exposing baby body parts trafficking<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This trial will reveal the truth that Sandra Merritt did nothing wrong,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lc.org\/newsroom\/details\/100119-pp-case-goes-to-trial-tomorrow\">said<\/a>\u00a0Merritt&#8217;s attorney and Liberty Counsel founder Mat Staver. &#8220;In fact, the evidence will show that Planned Parenthood is abusing the law in a desperate attempt to hide its hideous business of selling baby body parts. The Supreme Court has ruled that RICO cannot be used to silence free speech and that is precisely what Planned Parenthood is seeking to accomplish.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We will be reporting live via twitter.<br \/>Who: Planned Parenthood vs. Center for Medical Progress<br \/>What: Civil Trial in Federal Court<br \/>When: October 3 \u2013 November 8, starting at 8 a.m.<br \/>Where: 450 Golden Gate Ave <br \/>San Francisco, CA 94102 <br \/>Courtroom 2 on the 17th floor<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; CMP (@CtrMedProgress) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CtrMedProgress\/status\/1179063562838401024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 1, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>According to Daleiden, the first witnesses in the trial will likely begin testifying on Thursday, October 4, beginning with Melissa Fowler from the National Abortion Federation. Fowler recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/criminal-privacy-hearing-on-undercover-video-by-abortion-foes-begins\/\">testifed<\/a> in the premilinary hearing against Daleiden and Merritt regarding the 15 counts of felony invasion of privacy against them.<\/p>\n<p>Jenna Tosh, CEO of Planned Parenthood California Central Coast, will testify next week, along with Lopez and Merritt.<\/p>\n<p>The result of the three-week preliminary hearing regarding the criminal charges against CMP which took place in September is expected to be announced by Judge Christoper Hite on October 22 at 2:30 p.m. Pacific time. During that hearing, it was <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/doctors-david-daleiden-fetuses-born-alive-specimen\/\">revealed<\/a>\u00a0by certain witnesses the possibility that babies are <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortionist-investigators-hearing-babies-born-alive\/\">born alive<\/a> in order for their organs to be harvested and that abortionists at Planned Parenthood were in the practice of altering abortion methods in order to get &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/stemexpress-harvest-intact-children\/\">intact<\/a>&#8221; babies. This implies that these abortionists were using the illegal partial-birth abortion method in order to acheive that goal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveactionnewsonline\/\">\u201cLike\u201d Live Action News on Facebook<\/a>\u00a0for more pro-life news and commentary!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The civil trial against Center for Medical Progress is set to begin today with jury selection followed by opening statements from both sides tomorrow, October 3, at the San Francisco Federal Courthouse. It could last as long as eight weeks. 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