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   SAN FRANCISCO –  A federal judge on Friday blocked the release   
   of any recordings made at meetings of an abortion providers'   
   association by an anti-abortion group that previously revealed   
   secretly recorded videos of a Planned Parenthood leader.   
      
   Judge William Orrick in San Francisco issued a temporary   
   restraining order against the Center for Medical Progress hours   
   after the order was requested by the National Abortion   
   Federation.   
      
   In his three-page order, Orrick said the federation would likely   
   suffer irreparable injury absent a temporary restraining order   
   "in the form of harassment, intimidation, violence, invasion of   
   privacy, and injury to reputation."   
      
   The National Abortion Federation sued in federal court in San   
   Francisco, alleging that the Center for Medical Progress   
   infiltrated its meetings and recorded its members. The group   
   says release of any audio or video would put members in danger.   
      
   "The safety and security of our members is our top priority,"   
   Vicki Saporta, association president and CEO, said in a   
   statement. "That security has been compromised by the illegal   
   activities of a group with ties to those who believe it is   
   justifiable to murder abortion providers."   
      
   David Daleiden, a leader of the Center for Medical Progress who   
   is also named in the suit, said in a statement that Planned   
   Parenthood and its allies were trying to silence the group and   
   suppress investigative journalism.   
      
   "The Center for Medical Progress follows all applicable laws in   
   the course of our investigative journalism work and will contest   
   all attempts from Planned Parenthood and their allies to silence   
   our First Amendment rights," he said.   
      
   The center has released several secretly recorded videos that   
   have riled anti-abortion activists, including one Thursday of a   
   Planned Parenthood doctor in Colorado. It has accused Planned   
   Parenthood of selling fetal tissue for profit, which is illegal,   
   and Republicans in Congress have begun discussing cutting off   
   funding for the organization.   
      
   The undercover video released Thursday shows Dr. Savita Ginde,   
   vice president of Denver-based Planned Parenthood of the Rocky   
   Mountains, discussing prices of aborted fetal remains, the   
   center says. Planned Parenthood issued a statement calling the   
   video "misleading and deceptively edited."   
      
   An earlier video shows Dr. Deborah Nucatola, Planned   
   Parenthood's senior director of medical services, describing   
   techniques for obtaining fetal body parts for research. She   
   spoke over lunch with activists posing as potential buyers from   
   a human biologics company.   
      
   Planned Parenthood says it abides by a law that allows providers   
   to be reimbursed for the costs of processing tissue donated by   
   women who have had abortions. The payments cited by Planned   
   Parenthood officials in some of the videos range from $30 to   
   $100 per specimen, and the organization has subsequently   
   confirmed that is the general range, although there is no fixed   
   price list.   
      
   In Friday's lawsuit, the National Abortion Federation alleges   
   that the center created a fake company to get into the   
   federation's annual meetings in 2014 and 2015 and then recorded   
   its members with the goal of smearing abortion-rights supporters.   
      
   The suit sought a temporary restraining order barring the   
   release of any video or audio recordings, the dates of any of   
   the federation's future meetings and the names and addresses of   
   its members.   
      
   A California court this week issued a temporary restraining   
   order blocking the Center for Medical Progress from releasing   
   any video of leaders of StemExpress, a California company that   
   provides fetal tissue to researchers.   
      
   In one of the previously aired videos, a woman identified as a   
   former StemExpress phlebotomist describes drawing blood and   
   dissecting dead fetuses.   
      
   http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/07/31/judge-blocks-release-   
   recordings-by-anti-abortion-group/   
      
        
      
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