In a filing last night, Planned Parenthood admitted to the U.S. Supreme Court for the first time that their leaders, caught negotiating the harvesting and sale of aborted fetal body parts on undercover video by The Center for Medical Progress, “spoke the words recorded in the videos.” This crucial admission came in Planned Parenthood’s opposition filing to CMP’s petition for the Supreme Court to hear the appeal of Planned Parenthood’s nearly $16 million lawsuit retaliating for the videos, and it is the first time Planned Parenthood has acknowledged the authenticity of the footage to the Supreme Court.
CMP’s appeal to the Supreme Court is based on the failure of the San Francisco federal court where Planned Parenthood brought the lawsuit to apply any First Amendment protections to the case, when the evidence showed that Planned Parenthood sued based on the public impact of the video reports on its business. Planned Parenthood also admitted in its filing that the facts of the case would not support a defamation claim over the videos.
Read CMP’s petition to the Supreme Court here.
