Critics of Planned Parenthood said the tie-in with the campaign raises ethical issues as her office targets David Daleiden, the anti-abortion activist known best for his undercover videos about Planned Parenthood. This week, he said that agents from Harris’ office seized footage from his apartment.

Her campaign is endorsed by the abortion rights group NARAL.

The close ties between Harris and Planned Parenthood prompted an anti-abortion group, Students for Life, to call for her resignation today. In a statement to Secrets, they said:

“California Attorney General Kamala Harris, who sent agents to raid the home a citizen journalist who exposed Planned Parenthood’s practices of harvesting and selling the body parts of aborted babies, is using her Senate campaign website to advocate for the abortion giant, promoting a petition to defend Planned Parenthood. Ms. Harris is engaging in exceptionally corrupt behavior, using her office as AG to aide a staunch supporter of her campaign. This is exactly the kind of puppeteering and blatant of conflict of interest that the American public is sick and tired of. Ms. Harris should immediately resign her position as the California Attorney General.”

Concerned Women for America also blasted Harris.

“She is abusing her power as Attorney General for political gain in her Senate race and doing the bidding of Planned Parenthood, a taxpayer-funded organization that has contributed to her campaigns in the past,” said President Penny Nance.

Harris is running to replace retiring Sen. Barbara Boxer. She has led in recent Democratic primary polls against Rep. Loretta Sanchez.

Daleden’s videos make him a hero in the anti-abortion movement and among lawmakers seeking to defund Planned Parenthood. But the founder of the Center for Medical Progress faces criminal charges in Texas, where videos were shot, and several lawsuits all of which he has vowed to fight.

Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected]