Seema Iyer, host of MSNBC's "The Docket," hears from Vicki Saporta, president of the National Abortion Federation, about legal challenges facing the Center for Medical Progress, an antiabortion-rights group that released a series of misleading videos targeting Planned Parenthood. According to Saporta, NAF last year and Planned Parenthood earlier this month filed "federal lawsuit[s] in order to hold accountable the organizations and individuals who ran a longstanding conspiracy to infiltrate our meetings and to tape abortion providers, which has clearly put abortion providers at risk."
Saporta details the status of NAF's lawsuit and discusses how the videos and related antiabortion-rights rhetoric have endangered abortion providers and patients. "We have recorded an unprecedented increase in hate speech, threats and calls to action against abortion providers, which culminated in November in the horrific attack in Colorado Springs, where three people were murdered and nine others were injured," she said (Iyer, "The Docket," MSNBC, 1/16).
