The Center for Medical Progress released some undercover videos. They captured Planned Parenthood execs and principles admitting to the harvesting and sale of baby body parts. But Planned Parenthood is a multi-billion dollar private global corporation with benefits. They get hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars to support their business model. A model focused on performing elective surgery referred to commonly as an abortion.
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Between the media echo chamber and liberal storm troopers, challenging this arrangement is almost unthinkable. Not for the average Joe or Jane Taxpayer. So much so that it has become a non-topic of the collective unconscious. Abortion is something “that is” and that is that. Until David Daleiden and the Center for Medical Progress. He put abortion in front of Joe and Jane Taxpayer. And not in a way that was flattering.
The video exposed a vein. Opened a wound. Pushed the topic back to the watercoolers. In response, the Democrat Party with the help of the media sold a narrative. That the videos were deceptively edited. Faked. Or, just debunked.
The US Fifth Circuit Court just blew all of that away.
In fact, the record reflects that OIG had submitted a report from a forensic firm concluding that the video was authentic and not deceptively edited. And the plaintiffs did not identify any particular omission or addition in the video footage.
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They depict exactly what they appear to depict
Follow the link to read Ed Morrissey’s observations and other excerpts from the decision. But he sums it all up here.
In other words, the videos have been authenticated. Far from being “debunked,” they depict exactly what they appear to depict — abortion providers discussing how to illegally jigger abortion methods in order to maximize revenue on fetal tissue. The court ruled that the state’s inspector general made a reasonable decision to rely on this evidence in disqualifying Planned Parenthood locations from its Medicaid program, and even more ruled that Sparks acted unreasonably and arbitrarily in discounting the video evidence in favor of post hoc rationalizations from Planned Parenthood.
The case is remanded back to the lower court to review. Texas had excluded PP from Medicaid Funding. Planned Parenthood sued. And that seemed like a good idea until now. If this goes to the Supreme Court, those videos may get further validation (attention and air time) which is something this multi-billion dollar private global corporation that gets taxpayer dollars to perform elective surgery might not want.
But we want that.
Thank you 5th Circuit.
| HotAir
