A grand jury indictment of the activists who went undercover to expose Planned Parenthood practices is an example of “government hypocrisy,” the president of Focus on the Family writes in a column for ChristianityToday.com.
Jim Daly said that the indictment of activists David Daleiden and
Sandra Merritt, of the Center for Medical Progress, is “upside-down.”
“Why aren’t the alleged sellers being held to account?” Daly writes.
Daleiden and Merritt went undercover to find out how Planned Parenthood
sells fetal tissue. The videos from the pair were released last summer.
A Texas grand jury has charged the pair with tampering with a
government document and Daleiden has also been charged with attempting
to buy fetal tissue.
“We also must ask why, as citizen journalists, Daleiden and Merritt are
not protected by the same laws that have shielded countless of their
fellow reporters down through the years,” Daly writes. “Undercover
journalism is nothing new. To the contrary, it has been used time and
time again to expose criminal activity, and it is widely accepted as a
journalistic practice.”
Daly says there is no difference between investigative journalism and the type of work that Daleiden and Merritt did.
“Still, we must not back down from striving to bring criminal and
inhumane activity into the light—particularly as it relates to those who
have no voice,” he said. “And we must offer our support and prayers to
Daleiden and his colleague, who are being penalized after they had the
courage to take a stand for the tiniest and most defenseless in our
midst."
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