A decade ago, California sought to punish the Center for Medical Progress for exposing the sale of aborted human tissue. Now, the charges against CMP have been dropped. 

From LifeSite. California prosecutors have finally agreed to dismiss the remaining counts against the investigators of Center for Medical Progress (CMP) for using undercover video to expose Planned Parenthood’s criminal fetal organ harvesting side business, putting an end to a nearly decade-long attempt to punish pro-life journalism.

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Starting in 2015, CMP began releasing a series of secretly recorded conversations with officials from Planned Parenthood and the National Abortion Federation that set off a firestorm of controversy and a string of revelations about the abortion industry breaking multiple federal laws against profiting off human tissue, altering abortion procedures for the sake of procuring more useful tissue samples, and potentially even committing partial-birth abortions or infanticide, as well as video examples of abortion workers displaying callousness toward the humanity of the children their “work” killed.

Neither the Obama nor first Trump administrations took action against the abortion organizations over the revelations, but the pro-lifers who exposed their activities were instead hit with various lawsuits and felony charges on claims of trespassing, misidentifying themselves with fake driver’s licenses, and recording people without their consent. …

As for the criminal charges, half of California’s 14 charges for undercover video recording were dismissed for lack of probable cause, leaving seven pending. On Monday, CMP announced a negotiated settlement with the California Attorney General’s Office to dismiss the rest.

Per the terms of the agreement, CMP founder David Daleiden and reporter Sandra Merritt would plead “no contest” on one charge, which would be entered as a misdemeanor in 6-12 months before being converted to “not guilty,” dismissed, and expunged. Neither of them will suffer any jail time, fines, probation, or admission of wrongdoing. (Litigation continues in similar but separate charges in Oregon.)

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(Excerpt from LifeSite. Photo Credit: KATRIN BOLOVTSOVA/Pexels)