Kamala Harris has a David Daleiden problem

Kurt Mahlburg

August 16, 2024 11 Reactions

The second paragraph makes the technically correct observation that “multiple investigations into the nonprofit, Planned Parenthood, found no evidence it sold fetal body parts for profit”. What it fails to disclose is that the fetal tissue trade is a legal grey area in the United States.

Planned Parenthood has indeed thus far evaded any legal guilt for buying or selling fetal tissue for profit. However, the multi-billion dollar organisation luxuriously exploits a legal loophole that allows abortion providers to receive “reasonable payments” to offset the cost of acquiring, preserving, storing and transporting this valuable commodity.

The more abortions that are performed and bodies that are preserved, the more money an abortion provider can collect — and many providers offer bonuses to their technicians that are pegged to these metrics because of the financial windfalls involved.

All of this information, conveniently ignored by AAP Factcheck, is essential in comprehending the giddy glee of the women who made Daleiden’s acquaintance at that fateful trade show.

What else was AAP Factcheck hiding?

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In the third paragraph, we read that “while Ms Harris was California’s Attorney-General when a probe was announced into the actions of two anti-abortion activists, she had left the post by the time they were charged”.

Relevance? Zero. It was Kamala Harris as AG who opened the investigation against Daleiden, and her office’s legal pursuit of the whistleblower persisted until — and beyond — her election to the US Senate. Her investigation saw 11 armed agents raid Daleiden’s apartment armed with rifles and K-9 dogs in order to seize all of his undercover footage.

Consider a few other facts that AAP Factcheck failed to disclose, but that were covered by the New York Post:

• Daleiden’s case is one of the first times the California AG’s office has ever launched a stand-alone prosecution involving the state’s video-recording law, according to the defendant’s lawyers.
• Daleiden’s lawyers also contend that Kamala Harris singled Daleiden out to “do the bidding of Planned Parenthood”, who have contributed heavily to her campaigns for office. They believe it was “a selective prosecution for huge donors”.
• Planned Parenthood executives in California had arranged for in-person meetings with Kamala Harris about the videos, according to letters obtained from court documents.
• During her 2016 Senate bid, Harris enjoyed Planned Parenthood’s endorsement, all the while overseeing Daleiden’s investigation, including authorising the raid on his home.
• Once Kamala Harris was elected to the Senate, she hired Lily Adams, the daughter of Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards, to be one of her top aides.
• Several months after the investigation was launched, the LA Times editorial board called the criminal charges against Daleiden a “disturbing overreach” by the AG’s office.
  
• When one of the Planned Parenthood executives recorded by Daleiden made a complaint to the Los Angeles Police Department, the LAPD refused to take the case, saying the taping had been done in a public place where many could hear the conversation.

Consider this vital context while watching the new video footage recently released by David Daleiden.

🧵In 2016, @KamalaHarris seized dozens of hours of my unreleased undercover tapes.

Now that this evidence is finally coming out for the first time, it's clear @KamalaHarris led a cover-up of late-term abortion crimes as California Attorney General.pic.twitter.com/3mY8PyJKTk

— David Daleiden (@daviddaleiden) August 9, 2024

Kamala Harris might have the mainstream media’s might behind her, but the truth may not be as enthusiastic an ally.

It is doubtful that most Americans would be thrilled to learn about her cosy relationship with Planned Parenthood and her callous disregard for the harvesting and peddling of unborn baby body parts.

Whether they will ever be told about it is another matter entirely.

What do you think of Kamala Harris' conduct in the Daleiden case? Leave a comment below.

Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate architect, a primary school teacher, a missionary, and a young adult pastor.

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