Indictmnet against anti-abortion video makers

A spokesman for Anderson, Jeff McShan, said he could not confirm whether the same assistant prosecutor handled both investigations. 'I don't think she forgot what she uncovered,' Lewis said. Lewis said the assistant prosecutor who oversaw the Karpen investigation also handled the Planned Parenthood case. In a statement announcing Monday's charges, Anderson said, 'As I stated at the outset of this investigation, we must go where the evidence leads us.' 'It's incomprehensible,' Conway said of Anderson's actions.ДЄnderson acknowledged in August that a prosecutor on her staff was a board member of the Houston Planned Parenthood clinic but said that person would not be involved in the grand jury case. But she said Anderson 'turned a blind eye' and that politicians often 'masquerade as pro-life.' Spokeswoman Melissa Conway would not go so far as to say Texas Right to Life now regrets that endorsement. Anderson's handling of both cases is also questioned by Texas Right to Life, a prominent anti-abortion group that endorsed the district attorney in 2014. Kansas-based Operation Rescue has denied paying informants and had questioned the evidence seen by the grand jury. They're crooks, and it's going to be exposed,'' Lewis said, referring to Operation Rescue. 'I told them, 'Don't hitch your wagon to this. Lewis, a longtime political donor in Houston whose beneficiaries include Anderson, said he helped soften the political fallout for her in Republican circles. A grand jury declined to indict Karpen the abortion provider's lawyer, Chip Lewis, said Karpen was smeared by doctored pictures and false allegations made by individuals who were paid by Operation Rescue.

Operation Rescue had released disturbing photos and accusations from the former staff of Dr. The activist behind those allegations, Troy Newman, was also a founding member of the Center for Medical Progress - the anti-abortion group headed by Daleiden, whose videos set off investigations by Congress and Republican efforts to cut off Planned Parenthood funding. It also has a somewhat familiar ring to it.ДЄnderson was barely three months into office when the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue accused a Houston doctor of performing late-term abortions. But the case against David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt, anti-abortion activists who live in California, is now perhaps Anderson's most visible case since she first took office in 2013. When Anderson was up for election in 2014, she ran as 'proud, pro-life Texan mother of two' and was backed by the wealthy GOP elite. Dan Patrick urged Anderson to investigate based on footage that accused a Houston clinic of illegally selling fetal tissue for profit. Not only do grand juries rarely turn the tables on those making the criminal accusations, but Texas Republican Lt. But those who know the former judge say she is no ideologue and won't buckle to politics.ДЄnderson's announcement this week was surprising. Rick Perry, is now watching her party fume after she announced a grand jury cleared Planned Parenthood of misusing fetal tissue - and instead indicted the makers of undercover video widely embraced by the GOP. Harris County District Attorney Devon Anderson, a Republican originally appointed by former Texas Gov. has infuriated anti-abortion activists before: In 2013, a grand jury on her watch cleared a doctor accused of ending late-term pregnancies. AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The Houston prosecutor handling the only criminal case to date over stealth video of Planned Parenthood clinics around the U.S.

Indictmnet against anti-abortion video makers