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SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Sept. 13, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – In his first-ever appearance on the witness stand, pro-life lawyer David Daleiden testified to troubling details of the industry's takeover. fetal organs that led him to embark on a secret investigation of the macabre practice.
Daleiden and Sandra Merritt are charged with 15 counts of unlawful recording of confidential communications related to undercover videos published by the Center for Medical Progress and published in 2015, which provide evidence of illegal trafficking of body parts babies by Planned Parenthood.
A 30-year-old graduate of Claremont McKenna College, he said he worked in scientific research with Lila Rose of Live Action, part-time in 2008 and full-time in 2010, before founding CMP in 2013.
He's interested in an investigation of the industry of harvesting aborted baby coins in 2012, when he viewed a 20/20 documentary made in 2000 about organ harvesting. aborted babies in a family planning group in Kansas.
In that case, the whistleblower, Dean Alberty, was working in Planned Parenthood's abortion center as a fetal tissue attorney for a company called Opening Lines. Alberty spoke on the 20/20 to receive aborted babies intact and to "cut the thorax and see that the heart was still beating".
At a congressional hearing, Alberty later testified that at one point, the abortion doctor had brought him 24-week-old twins born alive after the summer. failure of an abortion in Kansas City, said Daleiden. When Alberty said that he did not want to harvest organs from living children, the abortionist then "drowned them in a pan," Daleiden told the court.
Daleiden said he read the testimony of the Alberty Congress in 2010, and then read a book by Suzane Rini titled Beyond abortion, a chronic fetal experiment, "A very thorough literature review of all the fetal experiences" and that he "tried to follow up on the most significant and disturbing studies that she cited."
This included a 1967 study entitled "The Artificial Placenta", in which a living baby is immersed in an "infusion set" to simulate a uterus, to determine "how long the fetus can stay alive".
Daleiden said that he thought the researchers had got live babies for this study from the abortion and that he had found the experimentation "extremely disturbing".
"I had nightmares about it about a week later," he told the court.
He testified that although the congressional hearings based on Alberty's revelations took place in 2000, by 2010, no major journalist, no major advocacy association "did anything more".
Daleiden said he thought it was something that should be brought to the attention of the "American people and the US law enforcement".
He then began investigating the fetal tissue retrieval industry on the Internet, discovering Advanced Bioscience Research (ABR), which has been active since 1989, "since I lived," and who "escaped all control" from hearing of the Congress in 2000, other than "a little bit of reporting".
ABR had "entered into an early partnership with Planned Parenthood, Mar Monte," the "largest affiliate for family planning in the country," said Daleiden.
He then met with Linda Tracy, CEO of ABR, and Perrin Larton, his Procurement Officer, he told the court.
Daleiden also discovered the StemExpress fetal tissue supply company when a friend sent him in 2011 a link to a job posted on Craigslist by the company for a "procurement technician" tasked with "harvesting tissue." fetal, fetal tissue.
StemExpress "identified the family planning clinics in northern California where they wanted their technician to work," said Daleiden.
The 2011 StemExpress website contained a drop-down menu of "body parts of the human fetus you wanted to order," which included "all kinds of organs and tissues," such as the brain, heart, heart with veins and arteries attached, liver, sinus.
The StemExpress website also featured a drop-down menu stating "gestational age of the body parts of the fetus you wanted to order," which lasted up to 20 weeks, Daleiden said.
Screenshots of the menus were in the court exhibits.
Daleiden said at this point he was actively monitoring the fetal harvest sector on the web and noticed a Stanford study published in "Circulation" in 2012 that cited StemExpress as a supplier of fetal hearts.
The study used the Langendorff perfusion technique and, in its "Methods" section, described the process as follows: "In summary, human fetal hearts were infused with the help of A device from Langendorff. "
The CEO of StemExpress, Doe 12, said last week that she needed researchers to credit her business. Daleiden pointed out that StemExpress was "quoted in parentheses" in the methods and practices section of the study.
Daleiden explained that he had done research on the Langendorff apparatus and that he had discovered that it was "designed for the fluid to continue pumping through a heart cut into a body".
"So, Langendorff's device could not resurrect a dead heart?" Asked Daleiden's lawyer, Brentford Ferreira.
"After what I understood, it needed a beating heart alive," said Daleiden.
He consulted with experts, including Dr. Stephen McCurdy and Dr. Theresa Deisher, he said.
Dr. Stephen McCurdy specializes in internal medicine and is director of the UC Davis Master of Public Health program in Sacramento, California. Dr. Theresa Deisher is a PhD researcher in Molecular and Cellular Physiology from Stanford University. She is the founder of Sound Choice Pharmaceutical Institute and General Manager of AVM Biotechnology.
"Dr. Deisher said the fetus should be alive by the time the organs were removed "to be used in Langendorff's device," said Daleiden in court.
The CEO of StemExpress basically admitted in court last week that his biotech company had provided medical researchers with heartbeats and intact fetal heads.
Daleiden's lawyer told the court that StemExpress had been mentioned in a Stanford University study in which the Langendorff infusion was used, a technique that "requires a beating heart".
"Does StemExpress provide fetal hearts to Stanford?" Asked lawyer Peter Breen at Doe 12 during the September 6 hearing.
She hesitated to answer because, she said, "researchers are so targeted."
However, Judge Christopher Hite told him the question was relevant.
"Yes, we have provided heart tissue to Stanford," said Doe 12.
Daleiden said in court today that when he launched CMP in 2013 as part of his investigation project on harvesting fetal body parts, he hoped to raise $ 125,000 to fund his work.
The secret investigation lasted more than 30 months from January 2013 to the release of the first video in July 2015 with a "tight budget" of US $ 100,000 and in a more "fragmented" way than it had hoped, said Daleiden.
Before going undercover, Daleiden said he consulted with several legal experts to find out if he could record conversations under the California Penal Code 632 and 633.5. The experts agreed that he could.
Daleiden's testimony continues.
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