Center for Medical Progress

Not to be confused with the Center for Medical Progress at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research.

Center for Medical Progress
FormationMarch 7, 2013[1]
46-2252984[2]
Legal status501(c)(3)
HeadquartersIrvine, California
WebsiteCenterforMedicalProgress.org

The Center for Medical Progress (CMP) is an anti-abortion organization founded by David Daleiden in 2013.[3][4][5][6][7][8] The CMP is best known for producing undercover recordings that prompted a controversy over Planned Parenthood in 2015; CMP established a fake company to pose as buyers of fetal tissue and secretly recorded Planned Parenthood officials during meetings.[9][10]

The CMP released edited videos of the discussions which made it appear as if Planned Parenthood intended to profit from fetal tissue, although the full unedited videos instead showed that Planned Parenthood requested only a fee to cover costs without any profit.[11] A grand jury in Harris County, Texas took no action against Planned Parenthood, but indicted Daleiden and a second CMP employee on felony charges of tampering with governmental records and attempting to purchase human organs.[12] The charges were dropped six months later, but in March 2017 Daleiden and the second CMP employee were charged with 15 felonies in California—one for each of the people whom they had filmed without consent, and one for criminal conspiracy to invade privacy. Planned Parenthood also sued the CMP and Daleiden for fraud and invasion of privacy, asserting that the videos were deceptively edited to create a false impression of wrongdoing.[13]

  1. ^ "The Center for Medical Progress". Business Search - Business Entities. California Secretary of State's Office. Archived from the original on March 15, 2015. Retrieved September 2, 2015.
  2. ^ "Exempt Organizations Select Check". Internal Revenue Service. Retrieved September 2, 2015.
  3. ^ "Misinformer Of The Year: The Center For Medical Progress". Media Matters for America. December 15, 2015.
  4. ^ Marcotte, Amanda (July 15, 2015). "What Is the Center for Medical Progress, the Group Behind the Latest Viral Abortion Video?". Slate.
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  7. ^ Allen, Samantha (July 21, 2015). "Hoaxers Fail to Nail Planned Parenthood in New Video". The Daily Beast. Operation Rescue provides "advice, consulting, funds" to the CMP
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  9. ^ "Sting Videos Part Of Longtime Campaign Against Planned Parenthood". NPR.
  10. ^ "Meet the millennial who infiltrated the guarded world of abortion providers". Washington Post.
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  13. ^ Chung, Andrew (April 1, 2019). "Supreme Court rebuffs anti-abortion activists in Planned Parenthood suit". Reuters.