David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt are each charged with 15 counts of felony invasion of privacy after posing as workers of a fake fetal tissue procurement company called Biomax Procurement Services in 2014. The anti-choice activists accused Planned Parenthood of illegally profiting from the sale of fetal tissue in the videos released in 2015. In a related suit brought by the National Abortion Federation, U.S. District Judge William Orrick III in February 2016 concluded there was no evidence that Planned Parenthood staff had agreed to illegally sell fetal tissue for profit.

Daleiden and Merritt’s videos advanced two prime goals of the anti-choice movement: defunding Planned Parenthood and further stigmatizing abortion and medical research that uses fetal tissue. The smear campaign, released through an anti-choice front group called the Center for Medical Progress (CMP), did extensive political damage to Planned Parenthood, offering pretext for anti-choice lawmakers to use the power of government against the health-care provider.

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