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PRAY: Legal Hearing To Censor Undercover Abortion Videos Takes Place Today

Ben Johnson : Dec 18, 2015  LifeSiteNews.com

CMP believes the demand is a form of "prior restraint," an attempt to censor its message before it can even be heard, and that violates the First Amendment.

airlift(San Francisco, CA)-Attorneys representing the Center for Medical Progress will face off this morning across a federal courtroom from lawyers for the abortion lobby seeking to silence their clients and stop the release of videos that expose controversial, and possibly illegal, practices. (Photo via LifeSiteNews.com)

The National Abortion Federation (NAF) already has a temporary restraining order forbidding CMP from publicly releasing undercover footage of NAF's 2014 annual conference. In a federal court in San Francisco this morning, it will ask to make that ban permanent.

CMP believes the demand is a form of "prior restraint," an attempt to censor its message before it can even be heard, and that violates the First Amendment.

The NAF lawsuit is "nothing less than illicit censorship -- a prior restraint at war with our fundamental notions of free speech and freedom of the press," said Tom Brejcha, president and chief counsel at the Thomas More Society, which is representing CMP in U.S. District Court this morning.

But NAF says that everyone who attended its annual conventions had to sign a form promising confidentiality - something CMP did in 2014 and 2015 while posing as the biological research firm BioMax Procurement Services, LLC. CMP signed away its right to disclose NAF's proceedings, its lawyers contend.

But David Daleiden told the court that the non-disclosure agreement he had to sign to host an exhibit at the 2014 National Abortion Federation's annual convention "was too broad, vague, and contradictory to be enforced."

"No non-disclosure agreement is valid in the face of illegal activity," he added.

And illegal activity is exactly what he says he found, as abortionists seemed enthused by the opportunity to make a profit from the sale of aborted human organs and...

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