Center for Medical Progress lead investigator David Daleiden Fr. Mark Hodges
COSTA MESA, California, December 12, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) – Two California bioscience companies that illegally trafficked aborted baby body parts for profit have been wallopped with a $7.8-million settlement and told to close shop forever in the Golden State.
DV Biologics and DaVinci Biosciences were exposed in the summer of 2015 as illegal for-profit fetal parts traffickers in undercover videos taken by the Center for Medical Progress at abortion trade conventions. In September of that year, Orange County’s district attorney’s office began an investigation of its own. It filed suit just over a year later in Orange County Superior Court.
“This settlement seized all profits from DV Biologics and DaVinci Biosciences, which they acquired by viewing body parts as a commodity and illegally selling fetal tissues for valuable consideration,” District Attorney Tony Rackauckas said in a statement.
“These companies will never be able to operate again in Orange County or the state of California,” he added.
Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue, called the verdict a “major victory for…the entire pro-life movement, and it’s one that we should celebrate.”
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