A Houston grand jury investigating criminal allegations against Planned Parenthood stemming from a series of undercover videos on Monday instead indicted two of the anti-abortion activists who shot the footage.
In a stunning turn of events, the grand jury declined to indict officials from the abortion provider, and instead handed up a felony charges of tampering with a government record against Center for Medical Progress founder David Daleiden and center employee Sandra Merritt. Daleidon was also charged with a misdemeanor count related to purchasing human organs.
“We were called upon to investigate allegations of criminal conduct by Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast,” Harris County District Attorney Devon Anderson said. “As I stated at the outset of this investigation, we must go where the evidence leads us. All the evidence uncovered in the course of this investigation was presented to the grand jury. I respect their decision on this difficult case.”
The case sprang from a series of dramatic undercover videos in which Center for Medical Progress employees posed as prospective buyers of fetal tissue, and captured several employees of Planned Parenthood and its contractors appearing to discuss practices banned by law. However, when the videos were released online last year, Planned Parenthood claimed selective editing had created a misperception.
ht/ billy fuster
Time for Texas Governor Greg Abbott to issue a full pardon…
that makes sense … like indicting the drug buyer (who was not going to use the drug in the first place; just buying for investigation) instead of the drug dealer ……
Houston, another place taken over by the libtards …. their plan is working
Wait, what? They cleared PP for selling fetal tissue, but charged the person they sold it to for buying it?
Is this from the Onion?
Isaiah 5:20 Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
I weep for humanity
He can’t Pardon them until they’ve been convicted. Mean while they will bleed them dry of money.
I’ll repost the comment I left at Federalist on this indictment.
The Dems behind this are going to regret ever seeking these charges. Let it go to trial, let’s see the videos all over again, let the defense get the PP officials to testify under oath, use discover to dig deep into PP operations and document every baby body part sale they made and the revenues generated before this trial.
I hope the defense uses this case to jam PP and their supporters full with their own horror in full view of the public.
correction: discovery.
Life in the Bizarro World.
I agree.
The smart thing (for the progies) would be letting this whole thing die and blow away as it mostly already has.
This will rub salt into the wound, and may even push charges against PP in other states.
Fundraiser for the election season.
That’s a GREAT call. Libs never think things through.
No surprise here! Grand Juries are notorious for being led by their noses to the conclusions the prosecutors want to make!
This is quite fascinating since we all live on the same planet and see the same events, yet we come to completely different conclusions. I’m confused, oh wait, maybe I’m not.
All the cops are criminals and all the sinners saints…
Rolling Stones “Sympathy for the Devil”
Demoncrats live in upside down world. Progressives live a lie.
@ Dr Tar, my husband is an attorney. He said you are spot on, PP may rue the day this happened if the defense is on top of it’s game
Holy cow! Members of the American Bar Association convinced a grand jury that Planned
GenocideParenthood is innocent and the journalists who exposed their evil are actually the criminals? Shocked! Shocked I am…Not. Reminds me of the old joke: God is out for a stroll along the edges of Heaven when he notices Satan building a fence. As He gets closer it becomes apparent that the fence is on heavenly property, so He walks up and says, “you can’t build that here.”
Satan replies, “Not only can I build it, I am building it. Why shouldn’t I?”
“Because this property is part of Heaven and I will not allow you to build a fence in Heaven,” God replies.
“Oh yeah?” Satan smirks, “what are you gonna do about it?”
God says, “Well, I guess I’ll have to sue you.”
Satan laughs, “Yeah, right. And just were are you going to find a lawyer.”
I pray you are right.
@ Irish. How does the potential lawyer for the defense cope with the forthcoming IRS harassment? It’s an occupied country now.
This. The DA got the result that he wanted.
Seems like a good time to sue the Harris County DA for politicizing the grand jury process. This isn’t the first time.
Proving once again that a grand jury will indict a ham sandwich.
They will prevail in court. The goal is to bankrupt them with defense costs.
Lefties always use the machinery of government to harass their foes, but don’t you dare call them fascists.
It is the true believer’s ability to “shut his eyes and stop his ears” to facts that do not deserve to be either seen or heard which is the source of his unequaled fortitude and constancy. He cannot be frightened by danger nor disheartened by obstacle not baffled by contradictions because he denies their existence. — P.76
Eric Hoffer “The True Believer.”
Trump will continue to support Planned Murderhood, with your money.