Final charge against David Daleiden dismissed after 10 years of fighting

Reporting from Live Action

The final charge against David Daleiden, a pro-life undercover journalist who exposed fetal trafficking in the abortion industry, has finally been dismissed after nearly a decade of court battles.

🚨⚖️As promised, the final charge has been DISMISSED and the case completely expunged—

—after a couple months' administrative delay, and a truly bizarre last-minute "April Fool's" attempt by @PPFA and @NatAbortionFed to overturn the State's agreement.

😅 More on that later... https://t.co/0skLCQ5pUW
— David Daleiden (@daviddaleiden) April 2, 2026

Key Takeaways:

In 2015, David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt released undercover footage showing Planned Parenthood executives and officials expressing their willingness to sell the body parts of aborted children, even haggling over prices.
Then-California Attorney General Kamala Harris met with Planned Parenthood officials and then ordered criminal investigations into Daleiden and Merritt, setting off a decade-long court battle.
California agreed in 2025 to a plea deal with Daleiden that includes no prison time, fines, no admission of wrongdoing, and no probation.
The final charge has now been dismissed, and the case expunged.

The Backstory:

In 2015, David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt released undercover footage of Planned Parenthood and other abortion industry officials expressing their willingness to sell the body parts of preborn babies they aborted. The videos showed the executives haggling with organ procurement companies over the prices of organs and other body parts obtained from aborted children.

In 2016, after Daleiden and Merritt began releasing the footage from their undercover investigation, then-California AG Kamala Harris almost immediately began colluding with Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry to suppress information about the alleged, illegal sales of human body parts and attacking Daleiden and Merritt instead.

We published this piece at the time of the controversy

10 MILLION people have watched these videos.

Video#1: Dr Nucatola

The video is one of a series (see them all below) made by investigative journalists from the Center for Medical Progress. Abortionists from Planned Parenthood – a huge abortion chain - have been caught on camera discussing how to obtain and sell organs from the babies they plan to abort. (In Ireland, Planned Parenthood operates as the Irish Family Planning Association and has received MILLIONS in taxpayer funding. The IFPA have refused to condemn the harvesting of aborted baby body parts).

What the videos reveal say is horrific - and the barbarism of these abortionists is revealed in their own words.

Dr Mary Gatter of Planned Parenthood discusses how best to ‘crush’ the baby to make sure the liver or other organs required for sale are left whole stating that "less crunchy technique" must to used to ensure "more whole specimens."

Dr. Gatter also stated while haggling for higher prices for aborted baby parts, that she wants to earn enough because she ‘wants a Lamborghini’.
Whistle-blower Holly O'Donnell says that she was ordered to cut through the face of a baby whose heart was still beating AFTER an abortion to harvest his brain. “She gave me the scissors and told me that I have to cut down the middle of the face. And I can't even describe what that feels like.”

Dr. Deborah Nucatola, Planned Parenthood's Senior Director for Medical Services, boasted to an undercover investigator, "We've been very good at getting heart, lung, liver."

Dr. Carolyn Westhoff, Senior Medical Advisor for Planned Parenthood was caught on hidden camera saying “We’ve just been working with people who want particular tissues, like, you know, they want cardiac, or they want eyes, or they want neural...Certainly, everything we provide–oh, gonads! Oh my God, gonads. Everything we provide is fresh.”

Planned Parenthood clinic workers are filmed going through aborted baby parts and saying “It's a boy."

The videos have led to Planned Parenthood being defunded in some states and a major investigation is now underway in the U.S.

So why haven’t you heard about these videos in Ireland despite the furors they have caused abroad. Because the pro-abortion Irish media want you to believe that abortion – and the abortion industry – is a good thing.

But the reality is that abortion kills a baby and harms a woman. And we now know that abortionists just want to make money: by killing babies, by exploiting vulnerable women and by selling baby parts for experimentation.