Court Removes Injunction on Planned Parenthood Video, New Video Immediately Released
Jeff Dunetz
MRCTV.org
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Joanne O’Donnell ruled on Friday afternoon the Center for Medical Progress has First Amendment rights to release videos it covertly took of StemExpress executives talking about buying aborted baby tissue from Planed Parenthood. Almost immediately afterwards, CMP released a new video that among other thing showed the StemExpress CEO Joking about receiving entire dead babies from Planned Parenthood (over lunch).
This latest video is only two minutes long and is more of a trailer of things to come. Most of its content was made up of bits and pieces of previous videos. The one new section featured Cate Dyer, the CEO of StemExpress in a lunch meeting with undercover operatives posing as representatives of a biotech firm. Dyer is seen laughing about how StemExpress purchases fully intact aborted babies from Planned Parenthood. As she paid the check, Dyer is laughing about how shippers of the aborted babies should give a warning to lab workers to expect such a whole (intact) baby.
“Oh yeah, if you have intact cases — which we’ve done a lot — we sometimesship those back to our lab in its entirety,” she says.
“Tell the lab its coming,” she laughs about the intact unborn babies. “They don’t want to open the box and go ‘Oh my God!’” Dyer adds.
Once the CMP videos began to be released, StemExpress realized a lunch they had back in May was probably an undercover sting, so they sued to preemptively block those videos from being seen. Judge O’Donnell issued a restraining order barring CMP from releasing any videos showing current or former Stem Express employees, at the end of July – then rescinded the order today.
The Center for Medical Progress isn’t off the hook yet because the Judge say that even though they couldn’t’ be prevented from releasing the video, it was likely that StemExpress prevail in its lawsuit claiming its privacy was violated.
Earlier this week StemExpess announced it was cutting all ties with Planned Parenthood, but denied that it had done anything wrong.
The newly-released video is below, but expect more to come next week.