Judge rules Congress will see all undercover abortion footage

By: American Decency Staff

Congress will be able to see every moment of the undercover footage shot by the Center for Medical Progress (CMP), a federal judge ruled today.

U.S. District Judge Wiliam H. Orrick III, the same judge who issued a temporary restraining order on behalf of the National Abortion Federation in late July, said that CMP may release all videos and transcripts to the Congressional committee that had sought them.

"I will not countenance a game of hide the ball with respect to these documents, video footage and communications, that interferes directly with these proceedings," he concluded.

But there's a catch. CMP must also provide every copy of the same materials to NAF "[p]rior to responding to the Congressional subpoena."

CMP's lead investigator, David Daleiden, had said that until today he was caught between conflicting legal orders — the temporary restraining order that prevented him from releasing unseen video footage, and a Congressional committee's subpoea seeking precisely that material.

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