Kamala Harris took Planned Parenthood's money and then sent eleven armed agents to destroy the man exposing them.
He spent ten years fighting back with nothing but the truth and a legal team that refused to quit.
A California judge gave him something Harris never saw coming.
How Kamala Harris Raided David Daleiden's Home to Protect Planned Parenthood's Baby Body Parts Sales
In 2015, David Daleiden and the Center for Medical Progress released undercover videos that shocked the country.
Planned Parenthood executives – caught on camera – haggled over the price of baby organs.
One official talked about keeping infants "intact" so the specimens could fetch $30 to $100 on the market.
Another joked about buying a Lamborghini with the profits.
The sale or purchase of human fetal tissue is a federal felony punishable by up to ten years in prison and a $500,000 fine.
Planned Parenthood was never charged.
Daleiden was.
Two weeks after Harris met privately with top Planned Parenthood California executives caught on the videos, her agents showed up at Daleiden's apartment with a search warrant.
Eleven armed agents seized every laptop and hard drive he owned – going back to high school.
For the first thirty minutes, they wouldn't let him call his lawyers.
They thumbed through invoices from Planned Parenthood's business partners documenting late-term baby body parts sales – and left them behind.
Harris handed Daleiden's seized footage directly to the National Abortion Federation, one of the very organizations he was investigating.
She then worked with Planned Parenthood's legal team to draft new California legislation designed to make undercover recordings of doctors and abortion workers a crime – passing copies of the bill back and forth before submitting it.
Fifteen Felony Charges and Ten Years of Lawfare Later the Case Against Daleiden Is Dismissed and Expunged
Fifteen felony charges were filed against Daleiden and his associate Sandra Merritt.
Seven were dismissed halfway through as unsupported by probable cause.
When the remaining charges started collapsing, then-Attorney General Xavier Becerra – an ardent Planned Parenthood defender – simply refiled them.
Daleiden's lead defense attorney, former LA County District Attorney Steve Cooley, called it the most blatant selective prosecution he had seen in five decades of legal practice.
The U.S. Reporters Committee filed a friend-of-the-court brief opposing the charges – because the same undercover methods California was criminalizing had been standard journalism practice for generations.
His reporting led to a $7.8 million settlement in which two companies admitted illegally selling aborted fetuses from Planned Parenthood in southern California, disgorgement of profits from fetal organ sales in Arizona, and Planned Parenthood stripped of state and federal funding in Texas for documented violations of medical ethics.
In January 2025, California agreed to drop all remaining charges – no prison time, no fines, no admission of wrongdoing, no probation.
Planned Parenthood and the National Abortion Federation made one last move to block the deal, filing emergency motions on April 1st to overturn the state's agreement.
April Fools' Day.
On Wednesday, Judge Brian Ferrall of San Francisco Superior Court signed off on the dismissal – and with it, ten years of Kamala Harris's handiwork vanished from David Daleiden's record entirely.
Lila Rose, president of Live Action, said: "After a decade of California bureaucrats attempting to prosecute, bankrupt and imprison him for his courageous and groundbreaking pro-life reporting, they have officially failed."
"David beat Goliath," she added, "and he's only getting started."
Daleiden confirmed CMP is now "quietly working on a big new project to release soon."
California attorneys general took Planned Parenthood's money, used the justice system to protect their donor, and spent a decade trying to put a journalist in prison for catching them on tape.
That's not a conflict of interest.
That's a law enforcement official running a protection racket for a campaign contributor.
Abortion activists will tell you this case was about privacy law.
It wasn't.
60 Minutes has used undercover methods for decades – and nobody ever sent eleven agents to Mike Wallace's apartment.
The moment those cameras pointed at Planned Parenthood's baby parts business, Harris showed up at a journalist's door with a search warrant.
She still lost.
Daleiden is already working on his next investigation.
Planned Parenthood's lawyers know what that means – and they're not sleeping well tonight.
Sources:
- David Daleiden, "Final Charge Dismissed," X post, April 2, 2026.
- "Final Charge Dismissed in California Case Against Journalists Who Exposed Abortion Industry's Fetal Body Parts Practices," Breitbart, April 2, 2026.
- "He Exposed The Grim Reality Behind Planned Parenthood. His Decade-Long Battle Is Finally Over," The Daily Wire, April 2, 2026.
- "Final charge against David Daleiden dismissed after 10 years of fighting," Live Action, April 2, 2026.
- "Kamala Harris, California AG behind Daleiden raid, slammed for Planned Parenthood advocacy," The Washington Times, April 6, 2016.
- "Media silent on Planned Parenthood's ties to lawmakers behind pro-life activist charges," Washington Examiner, 2017.
