A federal judge late Friday blocked the release of any recordings made at meetings of the National Abortion Federation by the Center for Medical Progress, the anti-abortion group that has exposed Planned Parenthood’s sale of organs harvested from aborted babies.
Judge William H. Orrick quickly granted the injunction just hours after it was requested by the abortion providers’ association, saying the group would be “likely to suffer irreparable injury, absent an ex parte temporary restraining order, in the form of harassment, intimidation, violence, invasion of privacy, and injury to reputation, and the requested relief is in the public interest,” reported the Federalist.
Orrick, nominated to his position by President Obama, was both a major donor and bundler for Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, raising at least $200,000 in that effort and donating $30,800 to committees supporting him,...
