Kamala Harris Raided Pro-Life Advocate’s Home After He Exposed Planned Parenthood Selling Aborted Baby Parts

It’s not immediately clear what was said in the meeting.

But both Daleiden and his attorney, Steve Cooley, who served as the Los Angeles County district attorney from 2000 to 2012 and as Daleiden’s legal counsel following the raid, believe it ended in a plan of action; namely, getting Daleiden’s videos and hushing him up.

“There’s no doubt in my mind that Kamala Harris, as attorney general, personally ordered the raid on David Daleiden’s home,” Cooley told The Daily Signal. “This was an effort to seize the video tapes that Mr. Daleiden had made during the course of his investigation. That was the primary purpose of that raid, to basically suppress his activities with respect to exposing the illegal sale of fetal body parts.”

The emails also show that Jill Habig, then special counsel to Harris, helped coordinate the meeting between Planned Parenthood and the California attorney general. Dozens of other emails viewed by The Daily Signal indicate that Habig was heavily involved in communications between Planned Parenthood and the California attorney general’s office.

Cooley described her to The Daily Signal as Harris’ special “liaison to Planned Parenthood” who helped maintain relations between the abortion giant and the California attorney general’s office.

Habig, who would go on to work for Harris’ U.S. Senate campaign and the Biden-Harris transition team and is now the founder of the Public Rights Project, did not respond to requests for comment.

According to legal filings submitted by Daleiden’s defense team in March 2017, Habig was internally pushing “criminal enforcement” against Daleiden through email exchanges with Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California’s Beth Parker, and attempted to link Daleiden to “anti-abortion extremist actions.”

According to an Investigation Report from the California DOJ, dated December 3, 2015, Parker told California DOJ agents that “Planned Parenthood would like the computers used to produce the videos seized.” That investigation report describes at length how Parker provided the agents with information furthering Planned Parenthood’s interests against Daleiden.

The California DOJ officers did indeed seize the computers used to produce the videos as well as the videos themselves, Daleiden’s team said.

Daleiden’s legal filings also state that as the National Abortion Federation began work on its federal lawsuit against him, it also was helping efforts to push Harris to prosecute him.

“Newly released NAF attorney billing records show that on July 24, in the course of preparing the injunction lawsuit, NAF was helping draft a ‘law professor letter to Attorney General’ Harris urging prosecution of Mr. Daleiden,” the motion says.

Daleiden’s team argued in that motion: “By bringing this selective, invidious prosecution, the Attorney General followed the fraudulent plan proposed by the National Abortion Federation and Planned Parenthood to stop Mr. Daleiden’s public speech and obstruct other ongoing official investigations into the criminal trafficking of aborted fetuses. This prosecution was brought based on the invidious purpose to chill Mr. Daleiden’s exercise of First Amendment rights.”

Daleiden’s Undercover Videos

Daleiden’s findings not only rocked Planned Parenthood’s massive ecosystem, they shocked the country.

“Daleiden’s videos landed like a bomb in Washington this summer, providing fodder for a crowded field of Republican presidential contenders and energizing social conservatives on Capitol Hill,” The Washington Post reported at the time. “They also shed harsh new light on the venerable women’s health organization, capturing officials sipping wine while joking about abortion and appearing to haggle over the price of fetal tissue.”

In July 2015, Kneer had emailed Harris about a “heavily edited video of Dr. Deborah Nucatola” claiming that she wanted Harris to hear “directly from us that the claims being made are clearly outrageous and untrue.” She was referring to a gruesome video depicting Planned Parenthood officials allegedly discussing the sale of aborted-baby body parts—which Planned Parenthood has denied doing.

Posing as a fetal-tissue procurer, Daleiden had secretly recorded Nucatola, then senior director of medical services for Planned Parenthood, candidly discussing how to preserve aborted-baby body parts during the abortions of living babies in between bites of salad and sips of red wine. The video was published in July 2015.

“We’ve been very good at getting heart, lung, liver, because we know that, so I’m not gonna crush that part, I’m gonna basically crush below, I’m gonna crush above, and I’m gonna see if I can get it all intact,” she explains.

“And with the [the head], in general, some people will actually try to change the presentation so that it’s not vertex,” she continues. “So, if you do it starting from the breech presentation, there’s dilation that happens as the case goes on, and often, the last step, you can evacuate an intact calvarium at the end.”

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He also secretly recorded Planned Parenthood official Mary Gatter allegedly discussing how abortionists could use a “less crunchy” technique to abort babies when the mother has said that she wants to donate fetal tissue. The video shows Gatter haggling over the prices of fetal tissue, discussing suction and vacuum techniques, and more.

“Let me figure out what others are getting, and if this is in the ball park, then its fine, if it’s still low, then we can bump it up,” she says later as they discuss compensation prices. “I want a Lamborghini.”

“What?” asks a shocked sounding Daleiden.

“I want a Lamborghini,” she laughs.

“Don’t we all?” Daleiden replied.

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Planned Parenthood and Harris

Planned Parenthood aggressively denied the allegation that they sold aborted-baby body parts, saying they were only reimbursed for costs, but it is clear from their emails that they recognized just how bad the optics of the videos were.

In 2015, another Planned Parenthood official pinged Harris’ office (specifically, Jill Habig and Robert Sumner) about a “second video” that was released on July 21, 2015.

“We believe we are fully compliant with all federal and state laws and are investigating the situation,” Beth Parker, chief legal counsel for Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California, told Harris’ team. “Please feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions or concerns.”

Daleiden’s team argued in their motion for discovery and to recuse that Planned Parenthood’s influence on Harris and Becerra should prevent the California Attorney General’s Office from pursuing the case fairly.

They pointed out that Planned Parenthood donated at least $81,000 to Harris during her tenure as attorney general and in support of her Senate campaign, and that Becerra was also endorsed and financially supported by Planned Parenthood.

Becerra, who became the California attorney general in 2017 and served in the role until 2021, called the investigations into Planned Parenthood a “witch hunt” in 2016.

Daleiden has serious concerns about what a Harris presidency would mean for the United States.

“Anyone who weaponizes the powers of a governmental office in the U.S. in order to suppress the free speech rights of other American citizens, I think anyone who does that is unfit for public office,” he told The Daily Signal. “I think that makes Kamala Harris unfit for public office. And I think a Kamala Harris presidency would be incredibly dangerous for civil rights.”

LifeNews Note: Mary Margaret Olohan writes for Daily Signal, where this article originally appeared.