By DEXTER DUGGAN
Sting videos from the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) about abortionists’ greed and cruelty continue to prove their visual power, both because of people who say to view them and people who want to censor them.
Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina kept bringing Planned Parenthood videos up in her campaign after she rocked the second GOP debate, by issuing a challenge to watch them, while the National Abortion Federation (NAF) continued trying to block the release of additional CMP videos it feared would expose its practices.
After the southern California-based CMP began releasing the videos in mid-July, the NAF dashed off to a strongly pro-abortion federal judge in San Francisco, William Orrick, appointed by Barack Obama, to ask that he block any videos that may have been shot at two of its conventions.
Although this would be prior restraint, Orrick, who had bundled campaign contributions for Obama, was happy to oblige and issued a temporary restraining order.
After CMP appealed Orrick’s strategy to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, three judges on that court, appointed by liberal Democrat presidents, ruled against the pro-life group on September 23.
At the Daily Signal website on September 25, Hans von Spakovsky, a legal expert at the Washington-based, conservative Heritage Foundation, warned the appeals court action could be burdensome as CMP seeks to bring more abortion facts before the public.
“This decision may end up being a costly one for CMP because it allows the National Abortion Federation to attempt to bury the group with discovery requests. Discovery is a pre-trial procedure in which parties can seek to obtain evidence for their case,” von Spakovsky wrote.
Like a number of other states, the Heritage expert wrote, California has a law “intended to prevent vexatious lawsuits designed to discourage free speech about important issues or government actions. . . .
“Without such a provision, a powerful plaintiff like the National Abortion Federation could continue to harass a defendant like CMP with voluminous, expensive, and time-consuming discovery requests for information, documents, and depositions,” he wrote.
Although CMP cited a number of cases including one of the Ninth Circuit’s own decisions about an overriding public-policy need to disclose information, von Spakovsky said, the appeals court “said nothing about this argument or its prior holdings that are applicable to this issue and seem to support CMP.
“And the three-judge panel did not explain why it ignored this argument; it simply dissolved its temporary stay of the district court’s discovery order (issued while the three-judge panel reviewed the appeal) and then denied CMP’s petition for a writ of mandamus,” an order directing the district court to stay discovery, von Spakovsky said.
He concluded his Daily Signal post: “Given its behavior so far in this litigation, there seems little doubt that the National Abortion Federation’s lawyers will try to make that discovery as burdensome and onerous as possible.”
An attorney and a spokesman involved on behalf of CMP regarding the NAF case didn’t return requests for comment by The Wanderer.
Meanwhile, Fiorina kept bringing attention to the videos instead of dropping the topic after having begun to educate millions of people about them during the September 16 Reagan Library debate. Because of major-media suppression of this news, many people in mid-September still hadn’t heard about the videos, even in this Internet age.
Writer Noah Rothman noted on September 28 at the Commentary magazine website that liberals were very upset with Fiorina bringing this information before the public.
“Among liberals, Fiorina has inspired passionate resentment, and it isn’t hard to see why,” Rothman wrote. “She has rather deftly infiltrated the left’s comforting and previously impenetrable habitat of fictions, and they vehemently resent the contamination of the fragile artificial environment they have constructed for themselves.”
Campaigning outside a University of Iowa football game on September 26, Fiorina recommended watching the videos even as some Planned Parenthood backers threw condoms in her direction.
LifeNews.com said NBC quoted Fiorina about the protesters: “I think they’re scared that the people of America are starting to look at what’s really going on in a Planned Parenthood clinic.”
The following day, talking with Meet the Press host Chuck Todd, Fiorina related the Iowa incident and, according to a Washington Examiner report, said, “They’re trying to distract the American people from the hideous reality that Planned Parenthood is aborting fetuses alive to harvest their brains and other body parts. That is a fact.”
Cornered Rats
After the California debate, the “Carly for America” organization posted a video just over a minute long, “Character of Our Nation,” beginning with liberal claims that she was referring to a “nonexistent” or “bogus” video about harvesting a newly aborted baby boy’s brain.
The pro-abortion Washington Post attacked Fiorina in an editorial posted September 26 headlined, “Fiorina’s falsehoods.” Even though the editorial linked to the “Carly for America” video, the Post misrepresented it and the earlier CMP video, just as the flagship pro-abortion New York Times earlier misrepresented the CMP video.
Neither the Post nor Times articles even mentioned that procurement specialist Holly O’Donnell directly spoke about how she harvested the baby’s brain — specifically, by cutting through his face with scissors.
Of course not. The high holy media priests of massive abortion and massive deception, like cornered rats, aren’t about to tell the truth about horrendously mutilated babies, even when shoved against the wall.
Rather than describing O’Donnell’s role as an active participant, the Post said she was “someone who claimed to have witnessed it.”
During this incident, O’Donnell was working for the StemExpress baby-parts procurement company at a San Jose, Calif., Planned Parenthood clinic, so she wasn’t wearing a hidden camera — although CMP investigators themselves did so at other locations. However, she tells what her work involved, and CMP provided footage of another abortion victim.
Even though the “Carly for America” video and CMP video plainly show a dying, aborted baby in a metal pan moving a leg and arm, both the Post and Times ignored that image, with the Post claiming there’s only an image of “a fetus born prematurely, not aborted,” and the Times saying “it is not seen squirming, as Mrs. Fiorina describes.”
Perhaps these major newspapers think their ridiculous deceptions attacking Fiorina as a shameless deceiver will let them win the day because readers will collapse in helpless laughter at their twisted propaganda.
However, “mainstream media” have been lying blatantly about permissive abortion for decades. Like drug addicts, they can’t imagine trying to survive without injecting their poisons. For their own good, and the nation’s, they should try to go straight.
Fiorina certainly seems willing to help them straighten out, by keeping the issue before the public, so that both well-meaning citizens and deceptive journalists confront the issue. Oh, the journalists may say there’s no squirming going on, but one hopes their consciences aren’t really that dead and aborted.
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