National Abortion Federation Finds Its Federal Judge, Illegally Censors Further CMP Video Releases

by JASmius



Yesterday in the Hill:

The National Abortion Federation is asking a California court to block the release of secretly recorded footage that [pro-life] activists could use in their campaign against Planned Parenthood.

The organization – which represents abortion providers nationwide, including those at Planned Parenthood clinics – filed suit Friday for a temporary restraining order against the Center for Medical Progress, which it said deceptively attended meetings where highly sensitive topics were discussed. …

Vicki Saporta, the association’s president, said she wanted to prevent more members from being included in the videos, which she said have already led to death threats online.

Captain Ed scoffed:

Very few courts would approve such a broad prior restraint, especially for speech that isn’t threatening or inciteful on its own, and no appellate courts would sustain it. This is a stunt suit.

Well, Ed, it looks like this court has a unique appreciation for stunts:

A federal judge blocked the release of any recordings made at meetings of an abortion providers' association by a[ pro-life] group that previously revealed secretly recorded videos of a Planned Parenthood leader.

Judge William Orrick [Obama appointee] in San Francisco on Friday issued a temporary restraining order against the Center for Medical Progress hours after the order was requested by the National Abortion Federation.

In his three-page order, Orrick said the federation would likely suffer irreparable injury absent a temporary restraining order "in the form of harassment, intimidation, violence....

All three of which are themselves defamatory to the CMP, whose counter-suit for which I can hardly wait.

....invasion of privacy....

The latter of which to which all criminal conspiracies are entitled as long as they're congruent with the far Left's agenda.

....and injury to reputation." [emphasis added]

By exposing the grisly truth about Planned Parenthood by tearing down its vile facade of self-flattering, obfuscatory lies.  Yeah, I can see where that would be injurious to the false reputation PP wants to project.

Remember, Mr. Morrissey.....San Francisco.  California.  Which resides within the appellate jurisdiction of....the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.  With its 28-16 Democrat majority.  Now I may be mistaken, but I think the NAF knew exactly where to go for their First Amendment-gang-raping restraining order, which only the U.S. Supreme Court might possibly overturn, and the Roberts court would most likely deny any certiorari writ after the twin bleepstorms it created with Obergefell v. Hodges and King v. Burwell.

And so the Planned Parenthood Cannibalism series ends at four installments, the kerfuffle will blow over, the baby-killers will be stronger and more ascendant than ever, and the First Amendment's organs will be messily harvested safely out of public view.  Oh, and the Center for Medical Progress will be bankrupted and destroyed, and David Daleiden is probably on his way to prison.

But he won't be going quietly:

David Daleiden, a leader of the Center for Medical Progress who is also named in the suit, said in a statement that Planned Parenthood and its allies were trying to silence the group and suppress investigative journalism.

"The Center for Medical Progress follows all applicable laws in the course of our investigative journalism work and will contest all attempts from Planned Parenthood and their allies to silence our First Amendment rights," he said.

Too late, Dave.  The baby-killers found the right judge.  And in this brave, new age of outcome-based jurisprudence, that's all it takes.