The Center for Medical Progress has filed a defamation lawsuit against a former Planned Parenthood abortionist over what it calls false statements about the group’s undercover investigation.
David Daleiden and his CMP team captured footage of Dr. Savita Ginde discussing the harvesting of aborted baby parts. Ginde responded by trying to discredit their recordings, proclaiming the videos to be “fake.” With the legal process now underway, she may come to regret that decision.
The publication of CMP’s Human Capital Project made the public aware of Planned Parenthood’s gruesome trafficking of aborted fetal parts. Desperate to salvage her reputation, Ginde published a scathing book about CMP. During a TEDx presentation, Ginde also maligned Daleiden as a “false prophet” and a “liar.” But there is no evidence that Ginde’s words in the videos were anything but her own.
Attempting to dismantle CMP’s credibility, Ginde labeled their investigation as a “multi-year infiltration, led by a well-known anti-abortion extremist.” Ginde claimed a series of “deceptively edited videos” were released by CMP in order to falsely implicate her in the sale of aborted fetal tissue. Ginde accused Daleiden of dubbing in words she never said and purposefully taking her out of context, dismissing CMP’s reporting as “fake news.”
Recalling her meetings with Daleiden, Ginde opined that she “had no reason to find [Daleiden] suspicious.” It was during her second meeting with him that Ginde remembered how Daleiden “put his fingers right in there with the [aborted] tissue.” Within the video, Ginde can be seen pointing out the stomach, kidney, and the heart of an aborted fetus, but Ginde would later contend that Daleiden dubbed in phrases such as, “that’s brains” and “it’s a baby.”
The footage gathered at the Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains clinic also showed Ginde negotiating a fetal body parts deal with CMP’s undercover investigators. Ginde was even caught agreeing to a cumulative payment for each harvested body part and suggesting ways to avoid legal consequences.
Ginde heavily implied that a lawyer for PPRM, Kevin Paul, prevented the clinic from being held liable for selling aborted baby body parts. Sharing her confidence in him, Ginde can be heard saying, “He’s got it figured out that he knows that even if, because we talked to him in the beginning, you know, we were like, ‘We don’t want to get called on,’ you know, ‘selling fetal parts across states.’”
Ginde’s claim that CMP fabricated facts and added misleading content to their videos is easy to disprove. The accuracy of the recordings was even acknowledged by Planned Parenthood during their recently concluded lawsuit against the independent journalist group.
The court noted during a federal jury trial back in October that Ginde had not been dubbed, and the words attributed to her in the video were her own. On the record, it was stated that “… the parties [which included Plaintiff Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains and Defendant CMP and Mr. Daleiden, among others] have agreed on a stipulation, which is that the words used by plaintiffs’ personnel and the defendants in the video recorded by the defendants were spoken by those persons.”
Further evidence disputing Ginde’s accusation that CMP tampered with the footage of her meeting with them comes from a transcript of the jury trial proceedings from this past November. The accuracy of CMP’s videos was formally acknowledged by Ginde’s former employer, and this should cast further doubt upon her allegations against Daleiden and his team.
Interestingly, Ginde admitted in her book that she “never fully watched any of [the] videos and had no intention of ever doing so.” Despite this, Ginde proclaimed Daleiden to be a pusher of “propaganda” and a “man without honor,” and her statements purposefully misrepresented the character of Daleiden. Unfortunately, Ginde’s labeling of the videos as “fake” made it easy for media outlets to decry the recordings as having been “heavily edited,” an accusation that was later refuted by an investigation by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals.
While there is considerable evidence rebutting Ginde’s statements about the content of the undercover videos, her statements were still damaging to the CMP, the lawsuit alleges. As an independent news organization, the livelihoods of CMP journalists rely on having a reputation for honest and accurate reporting, and they maintain that Ginde’s allegations led to a loss of donor support and a need for extensive public relations work to correct the record.
The findings of CMP’s investigation exposed to the general public the atrocities taking place behind the scenes at Planned Parenthood. Ginde’s efforts to restore her image through smear tactics further validates CMP’s undercover footage, as Ginde has offered no evidence to the contrary. If character attacks are all she has, then the public has no reason to believe CMP’s videos were anything less than accurate.
Samantha Kamman writes about abortion for Lone Conservative.com
