Planned Parenthood
Donated to California AGs Behind Investigation of Videomakers
by Dr. Susan Berry 30 Mar 2017
Planned Parenthood
has donated to the campaigns of the two California attorneys general who
ordered investigations into the undercover journalists whose work led to
allegations the abortion giant profits from the sale of the body parts of
babies aborted in its clinics.
The allegations led to multiple congressional
investigations. Ultimately, the Senate Judiciary Committee and
the House Select Investigative Panel have
referred Planned Parenthood Federation of America, several of the largest
Planned Parenthood affiliates in the country, and three of their business
associates in the fetal tissue procurement industry to the FBI and U.S. Department
of Justice for criminal
prosecution.
The office of California Attorney General Xavier Becerra charged David
Daleiden and Sandra Merritt of the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) with 15
felonies. The charges were filed following the release of their latest explosive video
showing Planned Parenthood officials allegedly discussing how they obtain the
highest quality fetal body parts during abortions in order to maximize sales to
biotech companies.
Becerra is a former longstanding Democratic congressman
who became attorney general after his predecessor, Kamala Harris, was sworn in as
a U.S. senator. According to OpenSecrets.org, Becerra received
a total of $5,535 from Planned Parenthood during his congressional election
bids between 1998 and 2014.
Harris is on record as having received
$2,600 in 2016 from Planned Parenthood for her Senate race campaign.
Additionally, Harris was the recipient
of $39,855 from the Abortion Policy/Pro-Abortion Rights lobby group, according
to OpenSecrets.org. ElectionTrack.com reported Harris
received $15,000 from Planned Parenthood for her attorney general campaign
bids.
A Los Angeles Times column by
Robin Abcarian on March 25, 2016 criticized Harris for dragging her feet on
Daleiden’s case.
Abcarian wrote:
It took a Texas grand jury only two months to reject
claims that Planned
Parenthood had illegally trafficked in fetal tissue, and instead
indict two antiabortion activists whose elaborate plans blew up in their faces.
That was some swift poetic justice.
But what’s taking California so long?
In July, our politically ambitious attorney general, Kamala
Harris, vowed to “carefully review” the “Center for Medical
Progress.”
Just weeks later, Harris’s deputies seized Daleiden’s
personal property following months of investigation into his videos.
The Washington Examiner reports the
mainstream media is “silent” on the Planned Parenthood contributions to the
campaigns of Becerra and Harris, and observes as well that Lia Parada, a former
aide to Becerra, is currently working as a Planned Parenthood lobbyist.
As Breitbart News reported, emails
obtained by the Washington Times in September of 2016 showed that
Harris’s office collaborated with Planned Parenthood to produce the California
legislation criminalizing undercover journalists for publishing and
distributing recordings of private communications with abortion providers.
According to the Times:
The documents are another indication of Ms. Harris‘ close
relationship with Planned Parenthood and call into question the impartiality of
her ongoing investigation of Mr. Daleiden, legal experts said.
The emails show Beth Parker, chief legal counsel for
Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California, sending multiple drafts of AB 1671
to Jill Habig, who was at the time special counsel to the attorney general.
“Attached is the language for AB 1671, proposed
amendments to Penal Code section 632,” Ms. Parker wrote in an email marked
March 8. “I look forward to your thoughts about this.”
Ms. Parker sent a revised draft of the legislation to Ms.
Habig on March 16. “Here’s the rewrite of the video tape bill,” she wrote. “Let
me know what you think.”
Habig later became deputy manager of
Harris’ U.S. Senate campaign. The campaign website
featured a petition asking voters to support and protect Planned Parenthood’s
federal funding.
Charges brought against Daleiden and Merritt in Harris
County, Texas – under suspicion of bias – were
ultimately dropped. One of Planned Parenthood’s biotech partners, StemExpress,
also backed
off a lawsuit against the videomakers.
In an interview with EWTN,
Daleiden said the current charges against him “are really bogus, in a lot of
ways.”
He added:
The charges are all based on the California recording
law, which is not triggered and isn’t an issue so long as the conversations
that are being taped are public conversations happening out in the open, in a
public area, which every last video tape that’s referenced in the attorney
general’s complaint was. So we weren’t expecting them to file such a, really
such a weak case, a case that probably won’t survive a couple of motions to
dismiss.
“When it comes to felony charges against our client,
David Daleiden, history is on our side,” said Tom Brejcha, president and chief
counsel of the Thomas More Society, which is representing the journalists.
“When David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt were falsely charged in Texas, after
they mounted a vigorous defense, the charges were abruptly dropped. We expect
that the same will prove true in California.”
Brejcha added that the efforts of Daleiden and Merritt
“were furtherance of First Amendment values and are clothed with the same
Constitutional protection that all investigative journalists deserve and must
enjoy. Undercover journalism has been a vital tool in our politics and
self-governance.”
In CMP’s most recent video, Planned
Parenthood abortionist Dr. DeShawn Taylor allegedly describes to the video
journalists how she delivers intact fetuses during late-term abortions. Taylor
also explains the difficulties abortionists face when a baby comes through the
procedure with signs of life, and she complains about the laws in a
“conservative” state like Arizona, where she once served as medical director of
a Planned Parenthood facility.
“In Arizona, if the fetus comes out with any signs of
life, we’re supposed to transport it. To the hospital,” she says.
When asked if there is “any standard procedure for
verifying signs of life?” Taylor responds by saying, “The key is, you need to
pay attention to who’s in the room, right?”
Planned Parenthood
Federation of America
Cecile Richards
is the president of the Planned
Parenthood Federation of America, and was Nancy Pelosi deputy chief of staff.
Note: Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Planned
Parenthood Federation of America.
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, was the chairman for the Foundation to
Promote Open Society, and Gavin Newsom was an invited to his 2013 wedding reception.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution
(think tank).
Nancy
Pelosi’s deputy chief of staff was Cecile
Richards, was the chairman for the California
Democratic Party, is a California
congressional delegation speaker, and Terri
McCullough is her chief of staff.
Terri McCullough
is Nancy Pelosi’s chief of staff,
and married to Howard Wolfson.
Howard Wolfson
was a partner at Glover Park Group,
is married to Terri McCullough, and
a director at The 74.
Glover Park
Group was a lobby firm for the Planned
Parenthood Federation of America, and the Open Society Policy Center.
Open
Society Policy Center is an advocacy affiliate of the Open Society Foundations. Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
Akin,
Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP was the lobby firm for the Glover Park Group.
Vernon E. Jordan
Jr. is a senior counsel for Akin,
Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP, an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), Valerie B. Jarrett’s great uncle, the president
emeritus for the Robert Trent Jones Golf Club (Gainesville, VA), a director at the American Friends
of Bilderberg (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference
participant (think tank).
Richard C. Blum
is an honorary trustee at
the Brookings Institution (think tank), and married to California congressional delegation Senator Dianne Feinstein.
Valerie B. Jarrett
is Vernon E. Jordan Jr’s great niece, the senior
adviser for the Barack Obama
administration, and a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Commercial Club of Chicago, Members Directory A-Z (Past Research)
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Kathleen L. Brown
is a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, Jerry Brown’s sister,
and was a treasurer for the California
state government.
Jerry
Brown is Kathleen L. Brown’s
brother, and the California state
government governor.
Cyrus F.
Freidheim Jr. is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Shirley Ann
Jackson is a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a regent at the Smithsonian
Institution.
David M.
Rubenstein is a co-chairman for the Brookings Institution (think tank),
and a regent at the Smithsonian Institution.
Carnegie
Corporation of New York was a funder for the Brookings Institution
(think tank), the Smithsonian Institution, and a
partner with The 74.
Howard Wolfson is
a director at The 74, married to Terri McCullough, was a partner
at Glover Park Group, and was a partner at Glover Park Group.
Glover Park
Group was a lobby firm for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America,
and the Open Society Policy Center.
John G. Roberts
Jr. is the chancellor for the Smithsonian Institution, and an honorary member of the Robert
Trent Jones Golf Club (Gainesville, VA).
Xavier Becerra is
a regent at the Smithsonian
Institution, and the attorney general for the California state
government.
Gavin Newsom is the
lieutenant governor for the California state government, was an invited
at George Soros’s 2013 wedding reception, and a director at Center
for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation.
Ira Lechner was a
director at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, and a
director at the Truman Center for National Policy.
Kamala D. Harris
is an advisory board member Truman Center for National Policy, a member of the California congressional
delegation, was an attorney
general for the California state government, and an advisory
board member Truman National Security Project.
R. Hunter Biden is
a director at the Truman Center for National Policy, the vice chairman for the Truman
National Security Project, and Joseph R. Biden Jr’s son.
Joseph R. Biden Jr.
is R. Hunter Biden’s father, and was
a regent at the Smithsonian Institution.
Gabrielle
Giffords is an advisory board member for the Truman Center for National
Policy, an advisory board member for the Truman National Security Project, and a co-founder for the Americans for
Responsible Solutions.
Americans
for Responsible Solutions is a “Gun
Safety, Gun Control” PAC for guns.
Covington
& Burling LLP was the lobby firm for the Americans for Responsible Solutions.
Eric H. Holder Jr.
is a partner at Covington & Burling
LLP, an outside counsel for the California
state government, and was the attorney general at the U.S. Department of Justice for the Barack Obama administration.
Xavier Becerra is
the attorney general for the California state government, and a regent
at the Smithsonian Institution.
Carnegie
Corporation of New York was a funder for the Smithsonian Institution,
Brookings Institution (think tank), and a partner with The 74.
Howard Wolfson is
a director at The 74, married to Terri McCullough, was a partner
at Glover Park Group, and was a partner at Glover Park Group.
Glover Park
Group was a lobby firm for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America,
and the Open Society Policy Center.
Open
Society Policy Center is an advocacy affiliate of the Open Society Foundations. Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, was the chairman for the Foundation to
Promote Open Society, and Gavin Newsom was an invited to his 2013 wedding reception.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution
(think tank).
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