Does the one who shaped the ear not hear?
The one who formed the eye not see?
Does the one who guides nations not rebuke?
The one who teaches
If they lose, it will cost them 10 more years. It’s already consumed much of their past three years.
David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt are enduring a preliminary hearing to precede their trial on 15 counts of illegally recording individuals who worked for or with Planned Parenthood (and perhaps still do).
Daleiden and Merritt, you may recall, went undercover, assumed false identities, and recorded conversations with people in the abortion industry.
Several people referred to as numbered “Doe”s (the court requires the concealment of their names) admitted to Daleiden that they were harvesting organs and manipulating the abortion process to preserve desired organs–including intact brains and hearts.
That means they were adjusting the process for their own gain rather than for the mothers’ safety. It also means that some of those abortions were illegal partial-birth abortions.
One person even admitted to Daleiden that, for their work, hearts couldn’t come from babies who died during the abortion process.
They had to come from living children.
“[A]biotech company CEO who worked with Planned Parenthood could not deny that they harvested aborted babies’ hearts while they were still beating.
Liberty Counsel reports other atrocious acts–and that the US Department of Justice is investigating those involved with such abortions and body parts trafficking.
Of course, much money is at stake: the price for each abortion and the money paid for the harvested body parts.
But Daleiden and Merritt face jail time for violating a law that doesn’t apply to other journalists in California.
When the issue was just unfolding three years ago, the liberal Los Angeles Times said charges against the two were “disturbing”.
“It’s disturbingly aggressive for [California Attorney General] Becerra to apply this criminal statute to people who were trying to influence a contested issue of public policy.” (Emphasis the Times)
And the Times makes an astonishing parallel.
“In similar cases, we have denounced moves to criminalize such behavior, especially in the case of animal welfare investigators who have gone undercover at slaughterhouses and other agricultural businesses to secretly record horrific and illegal abuses of animals. That work, too, is aimed at revealing wrongdoing and changing public policy.”
How can two people go on trial for “behavior” that is not yet “criminalize[d]”?
And while the Times didn’t agree with Daleiden and Merritt–and while they refuse to recognize the obvious wrongdoing of Planned Parenthood–the Times recognizes that seeking out wrongdoing and pursuing the change of public policy is part of what makes us and keeps us free.
Further, in this early op-ed, the Times referred to Daleiden’s videos as “edited”–Planned Parenthood’s assertion from the beginning.
Yet one Planned Parenthood “Doe”, while at first claiming that the videos had been altered “to make her say things she didn’t say,” last week in the preliminary hearing, admitted the videos had not been edited. (The Fifth Circuit Court had ruled earlier that the tapes were unaltered.)
So now we know that it’s all really as horrible as the videos show it to be.
Daleiden and Merritt are doing our nation a great service. They have put their lives on the line to reveal the truth.
It’s sad though that the Times can’t recognize the parallel between “horrific and illegal abuses of animals” and the same kind of abuse happening to the weakest and most innocent of human beings.
It’s sad that most of the mainstream media keep the volume turned way down on this story.
It’s sad that so many Americans just don’t know what goes on behind the closed doors of Planned Parenthood.
America needs to put a stop to this abuse of the unborn.
The One who formed the ears and eyes of these innocents will hear and see. The One who teaches us knows.
And now we know the truth. That makes us responsible to protect the innocents. That means we need to stop the horror.
Now.
This is horrifying, but such an important thing to know. Thank you so much for your work to shine the light into the tragedy of abortion.
Thank you, Jessica. God bless!
I agree with you 100%. It’s horrifying that when good people stand up for what is right, the powers that be trample them and take away their legal rights. It’s horrifying that abortionists would take beating hearts out of living babies, or any babies at all, for that matter. It’s horrifying that the media, who also want freedom of the press when they shed the light on the bad guys, would turn a blind eye to these two journalists and the abortion industry’s attempts to silence them. There is no justice. Thankfully, God sees. And, one day, he will bring justice.
Thanks, Melinda. I hope it’s sooner rather than later. God bless!
This is so disturbing, Nancy. That while David and Sandra were acting to uncover criminal acts, they themselves are facing a trial for criminal activity. Again, this shows the deep-rooted issues in our legal system. Praying over them and this.
Thank you for your prayers, Karen. They seem–can’t find the right word–but–happy? Happy to be making the truth known and leaving the results with God. Hoping they don’t spend years in jail. (Perhaps a presidential pardon? But it would be sad too if that were necessary. I have the sense they are trusting God. Thanks again and God bless!
Hard to believe this is happening. A staggering evil on so many levels. May the truth of this situation be made known, we pray oh Lord. May the hearts of many turn to You, the Giver of all life.
I love your prayer-comments, Melissa. May the hearts turn as many have. Carol Everett, Bernard Nathanson–and more. Thanks, Melissa, and God bless!
This is horrifying but also not surprising. There is so much money involved in the harvesting that the push back is well-funded. I pray we see more and more Christians recognizing that as long as we go along with some babies being aborted (up to a certain number of weeks), we are not standing on God’s Law. “Though shall not murder.”
Those prosecuting the ones who expose the evil risk facing the vengeance of God.
That would be the rebuke the verse speaks of, Beth. We shouldn’t be surprised to see that after 46 years since Roe. Thanks for commenting. God bless!
Horrifying, heartbreaking and hard to comprehend how this happens. Praying for all.
Thank you for your prayers for the babies, Melissa! God bless!
I weep for those who believe this type of behavior is okay. May our Lord protect the lives of these innocent babies. So very sad for us as a nation. Praying for all those who might consider abortion, that God will show them another way.
Amen, Yvonne, may He indeed! Thank you and God bless!