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Working together, the legal team consisting of the Thomas More Society and the Liberty Counsel secured the dismissal of five more felony counts, six in total, at the preliminary hearing in the California criminal case against undercover journalist David Daleiden.
Superior Court Judge Christopher Hite issued his final probable cause order on Friday, leaving nine out of an original 15 felony counts, to proceed to trial.
As CBN News has reported, Daleiden and Sandra Merritt with the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) secretly recorded and exposed Planned Parenthood operatives discussing, even bragging about, how to maximize the sale of aborted baby body parts.
The undercover videos, most of which were recorded at the National Abortion Federation's (NAF) 2014 and 2015 abortion convention and trade shows, exposed Planned Parenthood's illegal involvement in harvesting and selling aborted baby body parts to companies such as StemExpress. The recordings capture Planned Parenthood executives haggling over the prices of baby body parts, picking through bloodied arms and legs of aborted babies in a pie tray, and discussing how to alter abortion methods to obtain better body parts for sale.
Daleiden and Merritt are the first undercover journalists to be criminally prosecuted in the history of the Golden State.