Aborted Baby Parts Undercover Videos Can Continue, Calif. Court Rules

Christianpost.com Undercover videos showing abortion provider Planned Parenthood selling aborted baby parts can continue after biomedical company StemExpress failed, through legal action, to stop their release. The Superior Court of the state of California issued a ruling Thursday denying StemExpress' request for a "specified discovery" that would have given them possession of the video and thus kept it from being released publicly. "The Court, for good cause shown, may order that 'specified discovery' be conducted notwithstanding the general prohibition. Plaintiff seeks to demonstrate that such good cause exists. However, Plaintiff's papers fail to make that showing," read the ruling. "Plaintiff does not persuade the Court that the discovery it seeks is necessary to obtain the preliminary injunction. That is because it appears unlikely that the Court is going to grant the preliminary injunction."... Jeffrey M. Trissell, attorney with the Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund who is working on the case, told The Christian Post that his organization liked how "strong" the ruling was. "Instead of analyzing whether the specifically requested documents or depositions were necessary, the Court jumped ahead and simply said that no amount of discovery would change the fact that it is 'unlikely' that StemExpress will win at the hearing for an injunction," said Trissell. Trissell of FCDF also told CP that the ruling was "surprising" since the Court "had already given StemExpress a temporary injunction" last month, which is scheduled to expire next Friday. "The Court had also denied a separate application we made on August 10 to dissolve the temporary injunction," continued Trissell. "Due to the strength of the Court's ruling on the discovery hearing, we are cautiously optimistic that the temporary injunction will lapse on August 21...