Texas Prosecutors Drop Charges Against Calif. Activists Behind Planned Parenthood Videos
Prosecutors alleged that Daleiden, from Davis, California, and Merritt, from San Jose, California, used fake driver's licenses to hide their identities from Planned Parenthood during the 30-month undercover video operation. "Today,
the Harris County prosecutor suddenly dropped the pending felony charges against Daleiden, relying on a technical concern relating to the grand jury proceedings".
"It doesn't mean a current grand jury couldn't consider it". Nonetheless, Daleiden did not miss the opportunity to call out Planned Parenthood that it should be the one punished. Grand jury you over stepped your bounds.
"If the district attorney is right that it was beyond limitations of the (grand jury) extension, that's not vindication", she said.
A Texas judge this week said no, you know what? "That's what we contend occurred here". "And I would just note that Planned Parenthood is still under investigation by the United States Congress, as they should be because they are the real criminals in this matter", Daleiden said after the hearing as quoted by USA Today.
Texas authorities initially began a grand jury investigation of Planned Parenthood after the undercover videos were released last August.
Jefferson Circuit Court dismissed the lawsuit in June.
"The grand jury took the investigation where the facts led it, however Texas law limits what can be investigated after a grand jury extension order is issued", District Attorney Devon Anderson said in a statement.
According to Washington Times, Daleiden is the founder of Center for Medical Progress while Meritt is one of his investigators.
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As per Planned Parenthood's official site, it has been trusted for almost a 100 years.
Houston-area prosecutors dropped charges on Tuesday against two anti-abortion activists indicted for using illegal government identifications to secretly film a Texas Planned Parenthood facility, saying they could not adequately investigate the case.
"We very much hope that the message was sent loud and clear that David's conduct was not criminal, and undercover journalists should not be threatened by criminal prosecutions in this way", Breen said. She added that Planned Parenthood "has been cleared of any wrongdoing time and again", whereas "Daleiden and other anti-abortion extremists, on the other hand, spent three years creating a fake company, creating fake identities and lying".
Planned Parenthood of New York City is putting microblogging site Tumblr at the center of an advertising campaign marking its 100th anniversary this fall, writes The New York Times.
"Planned Parenthood needs to be held accountable for their horrendous business practices of betraying their clients and selling their babies piece by piece for profit", Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life of America, said in a statement emailed to the Register. The pro-life advocates underwent what many would call a political witch hunt and were charged for making undercover videos exposing Planned Parenthood's fetal organ harvesting scheme.
Horne was at the courthouse in Houston when the charges were dropped. The indictment "was politically-motivated and should never have been filed in the first place".
"We think these children should not be for sale", Horne said.