{"id":231164,"date":"2020-09-18T06:05:34","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T11:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=231164"},"modified":"2020-09-17T21:40:32","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T02:40:32","slug":"center-medical-progress-daleiden-sue-planned-parenthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/center-medical-progress-daleiden-sue-planned-parenthood\/","title":{"rendered":"Center for Medical Progress and David Daleiden sue Planned Parenthood for defamation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Center for Medical Progress (CMP) and its president and lead investigator David Daleiden announced Thursday that they have filed a defamation suit against Planned Parenthood Federation of America after the\u00a0abortion corporation<\/a> repeatedly and inaccurately accused CMP of “false,” “fake,” and “manufactured” reporting, despite analysis proving the videos were authentic and not manipulated.<\/p>\n

In a statement<\/a>, Harmeet Dhillon, counsel for Daleiden and CMP, explained why the lawsuit was filed. \u201cPlanned Parenthood has tremendous power and influence in our society. But even it must adhere to legal norms,” Dhillon said. “We filed this lawsuit to hold PPFA accountable for damaging falsehoods it uttered concerning our clients\u2019 groundbreaking journalism that exposed shocking practices it would rather keep hidden \u2014 for good reason. Planned Parenthood is not above the law. We look forward to the merits litigation of this lawsuit.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2015, CMP released its\u00a0first video<\/a> after 30 months of undercover investigations. Within months, Cecile Richards, the president of Planned Parenthood at that time, was summoned to appear before Congress<\/a>\u00a0to offer some sort of explanation.\u00a0Despite Planned Parenthood and pro-abortion media claims that the CMP videos were “deceptively edited” and “highly doctored,” two\u00a0independent forensic analyses<\/a> of the videos found no evidence of doctoring or manipulation.<\/p>\n

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In 2019 during sworn<\/a> deposition<\/a> testimony<\/a>, Planned Parenthood officials admitted that the statements captured by CMP were accurate, and had been “spoken by those persons.” Yet Planned Parenthood still claimed<\/a>, just months later, that Daleiden and CMP released the videos \u201cto manufacture a fake smear campaign against Planned Parenthood.” They tweeted similar statements in November of 2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cInstead of coming clean about its ruthless pursuit of profit from selling the remains of aborted children, Planned Parenthood tried to smear David Daleiden, the man who blew the whistle on its dirty secret,\u201d Peter Breen, Vice President and Senior Counsel for the Thomas More Society, who currently represents Daleiden, said in a statement. \u201cIn its earlier lawsuit against David and the Center for Medical Progress, Planned Parenthood fought to avoid scrutiny of its illegal fetal tissue trafficking. This new lawsuit puts Planned Parenthood\u2019s grisly business practices front and center, to prove the truth of the conclusions of David\u2019s investigation, which were also confirmed and echoed by the United States Congress and other government officials.\u201d<\/p>\n