Pro-life Vice President Kamala Harris has claimed that former President Donald Trump would jail journalists who disagree with him if elected president in November, but she is ignoring her own record of using her office as California’s attorney general to pursue anti-abortion journalist David Daleiden on abortion charges. Release Undercover video exposing the abortion industry’s fetal body parts practices.
“And just think about what he intends to do if we give him power again: his clear intent to jail journalists, political opponents and anyone he perceives as an enemy. his clear intent to deploy our active duty military against his own people,” Harris argued in a speech formally accepting the Democratic presidential nomination at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Thursday night.
In 2015, Daleiden released undercover videos of Planned Parenthood, the National Abortion Federation and biomedical research companies related to the alleged trafficking of aborted fetal body parts.
Harris, who served as California’s attorney general from 2011 to 2017 and later became a senator, ordered the search of David Daleiden’s apartment in Huntington Beach, California, on April 6, 2016. Daleiden said: Center for Medical Progress The Chief of Police (CMP), who released the video, accused Daleiden of violating the state’s video recording law, which has never been enforced. Used According to the lawyer, this is an accusation against a journalist.
Harris’ political career Supported Never by major abortion groups Investigated During her tenure as attorney general, she sued Planned Parenthood for alleged human trafficking.
Harris told investigators from the California Department of Justice Seize Daleiden’s laptop, hard drives and ultimately hundreds of hours of footage captured during nearly three years of undercover work investigating abortion groups.
A California Department of Justice agent who was present during the search of Daleiden’s home later testified that Obama-era Attorney General Loretta Lynch had asked Harris to open an investigation into Daleiden and his associate Sandra Merritt. The state Department of Justice’s initial investigation report also noted that Planned Parenthood of California’s general counsel, Beth Parker, had requested a computer used to make videos taken at the abortion conferences, Fox News reported. Reported.
Daleiden and his lawyers, citing billing records, argue that Harris met with several Planned Parenthood of California officials before the lawsuit was filed. Raid March 23, 2016.
Daleiden described the attack in a 2020 op-ed for Breitbart News.
A team of 11 armed agents turned over every box, file, and furniture in my studio apartment. They confiscated every laptop and hard drive I’d had since high school. They wouldn’t allow me to call my lawyer for the first 30 minutes. Worst of all, they looked at but blatantly left out copies of invoices for late-term aborted baby body parts sent to them by Planned Parenthood’s business partners. It seems Kamala Harris has already decided that those who sell body parts are innocent, and those who expose the sales are guilty.
Daleiden’s lawyers argued in 2021 that new court documents revealed how Harris gave investigative materials seized during the 2016 raid to the National Abortion Federation, which was filing a civil lawsuit against Daleiden at the time.
At the time of the raid, Harris had allegedly received thousands of dollars in Planned Parenthood funding for her 2016 Senate campaign, and just before the raid on Daleiden’s apartment, Harris had been “attempting to solicit support for Planned Parenthood,” the Post reported. Los Angeles Times Reported According to reports, her campaign website included a page asking supporters to sign a petition to “protect Planned Parenthood.”
Harris’ involvement with Planned Parenthood and other abortion groups Prompted At the time, pro-life groups fought back, accusing her of a conflict of interest and demanding that she resign from her position as attorney general and drop her Senate bid.
“The fact that Harris is seizing the personal property of California pro-life activists who exposed the horrific practices of Planned Parenthood, who donated thousands of dollars to her last campaign, while her Senate campaign promotes and defends Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, is a conflict of interest and an abuse of government power,” said Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America. said In a statement at the time, Harris said, “Ms. Harris should resign as Attorney General and end her run for U.S. Senate. She has abused her office and no longer deserves the public trust.”
September 2016, The Washington Times Breitbart News previously reported that Harris’ office had also worked with Planned Parenthood to draft legislation targeting Daleiden.
According to the email, Timeswas Accessed Public records requests revealed conversations between Harris’ office and Planned Parenthood officials about a bill that would have criminalized undercover journalists who publish and distribute recordings of private conversations with abortion doctors, a bill that was later signed into law by then-Governor Jerry Brown (D).
Harris’ successor as California Attorney General, Xavier Becerra (now Secretary of Health and Human Services), picked up where Harris left off, filing 15 felony charges against Daleiden and the CMP in 2017, most of which were later dropped by a judge. Thrown Becerra also said: Received He has received thousands of dollars from Planned Parenthood throughout his political career.
Planned Parenthood and other groups eventually sued Daleiden for damages, and a judge awarded the abortion groups $2.4 million in damages and more than $13 million in attorneys’ fees. rejection It plans to take up the case in 2023.
In 2021, a U.S. District Court judge issued an injunction in a lawsuit brought by the National Abortion Federation (NAF) permanently enjoining the release of Daleiden’s undercover videos, which included recordings of NAF meetings.
Daleiden Sued The complaint, filed by Becerra and Harris in 2020, alleges that Harris conspired with Planned Parenthood in an “unprecedented and sustained conspiracy to knowingly use California’s video recording law as a political weapon to silence objectionable speech.” The case is currently pending.
The CMP videos, which include undercover interviews and conversations with abortion doctors, accuse Planned Parenthood of profiting from selling the body parts of babies aborted at its clinics. The abortion doctors seen on the videos also appear to discuss adapting the abortion process to harvest certain intact organs and body parts. CMP said the organization Violated Federal law makes it a felony to sell or purchase human fetal tissue. In December 2016, the Senate Judiciary Committee Referenced Planned Parenthood of America investigated CMP’s allegations and reported them to the FBI and Department of Justice for investigation and possible prosecution.
Planned Parenthood is Denied They claim that the CMP video was edited to disguise the allegations. (The full, unedited version of the video is available at Available The group and its affiliates are officially Charged Condemning the misconduct, fact-checkers Maintain The abortion groups featured in the video were acting lawfully. change In response to the CMP video, Planned Parenthood changed its fetal tissue collection policy in October 2015, stating that it would no longer accept legal reimbursement for costs associated with tissue donation.
The Biden-Harris Department of Justice (DOJ) has also made it clear that it is pursuing anti-abortion activists more harshly than pro-abortion activists in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling. Dobbs Reversal of decision Roe v. Wade, Most of the violence Violated Opposed to pro-life pregnancy centers and churches.
In just under four years since the FACE Act was passed in 1994, the Biden-Harris Department of Justice has handled more than a quarter of all prosecutions under the Freedom of Access to Health Care Facilities (FACE) Act, or 55 of 211 cases, according to data obtained by the office of Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas).
The Biden-Harris Justice Department also specifically used a KKK-era law called “conspiracy against rights” to extend the prison terms of pro-life activists accused of violating the FACE Act.
Some of these cases include an FBI raid on the home of a pro-life activist, the imprisonment of a Christian grandmother, and even the prosecution of an 87-year-old survivor of a Communist concentration camp.
Katherine Hamilton is a political reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow her on X. Follow.
