'I Thought It Was Horrific': Sandra Merritt Explains to the Court Why She Went Undercover to Expose Planned Parenthood Selling Baby Body Parts

Lianne Laurence : Oct 9, 2019
LifeSiteNews.com

"I thought it needed to come to the light and for people to know the truth in order to make an informed choice." -Sandra Merritt

(San Francisco, CA) — [LifeSiteNews.com] In her first-ever public testimony, Sandra Merritt told a San Francisco jury Friday why she took part in an undercover operation that exposed Planned Parenthood's trafficking in aborted baby body parts. (Image: Sandra Merritt /Credit: Jim Hale-LifeSiteNews)

Testifying in the Planned Parenthood Federation civil suit against the Center for Medical Progress (CMP), the 66-year-old grandmother said she believed Planned Parenthood was committing such crimes as partial-birth abortion, battery against women by changing abortion procedures in order to procure more intact organs, and harvesting organs from babies born alive during abortions.

"I thought it was horrific. I thought it needed to come to the light and for people to know the truth in order to make an informed choice," she told the court.

An investigator with CMP, Merritt is one of five defendants Planned Parenthood Federation of America and 10 affiliates are suing for damages they claim resulted from the undercover videos CMP released in 2015.

The Planned Parenthood suit accuses Merritt, CMP project lead David Daleiden, Albin Rhomberg, Troy Newman, and Gerardo Adrian Lopez—as well as CMP and its alter-ego BioMax—of committing 15 different crimes including wiretapping, conspiracy, trespassing, breach of contract, and violating the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) statute... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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