Abortion giant Planned Parenthood is waging a relentless campaign to bankrupt our client Sandra Merritt and put her behind bars.

And it's leaving nothing to chance.

Not only is the $1.7 billion corporation suing Sandra for $16 million, it also persuaded a San Francisco trial judge to let it join the state of California's criminal prosecution against her!

Despite our strong objections, the trial judge is permitting Planned Parenthood’s four operatives—all private individuals—to intervene in the criminal trial against Sandra.

Right now, Liberty Counsel is working almost around the clock to prepare for two major hearings in the civil and criminal cases against Sandra. Between now and the end of June, we must raise $20,000 above this month’s budget to fight this battle while we also defend religious liberty, life and the family nationwide.

Your help now will make a huge difference. Take advantage of the $100,000 online Challenge Grant and see your gift effectively doubled in its impact.

+ + California Attorney General to PPH: Welcome Aboard!

If you've been reading my updates on this pivotal case, you won't be surprised to learn that California Attorney General Xavier Becerra welcomes the intervention of Planned Parenthood. He is a hired gun for Planned Parenthood, which has showered him with campaign cash.

Becerra is prosecuting Sandra on 15 criminal felony counts. If convicted, Sandra faces huge fines and years behind bars.

Sandra's alleged "crime" is going undercover to videotape senior Planned Parenthood officials discussing their firm's shocking commerce in the human body parts harvested from babies it kills.

And now, thanks to the Superior Court of San Francisco, the guilty party, Planned Parenthood, is part of the prosecution team!

What could be more unjust? The court has given private parties with axes to grind the right to unconstitutionally prosecute Merritt!

This week, Liberty Counsel filed a 70-page motion asking a California appeals court to reverse the trial court and prohibit Planned Parenthood from intervening on the prosecution side.

+ + "Unprecedented" and "unlawful"

"Allowing a private party to meddle in criminal proceedings supposedly brought by the state of California is unprecedented and unlawful," declared Liberty Counsel's Chief Litigation Counsel, Horatio Mihet.

He added: "Planned Parenthood's attempt to intervene in the Attorney General's case pulls the mask off the unseemly collusion between them that is responsible for this political prosecution."

We are fighting the combined might of the state of California--with its almost unlimited resources--and Planned Parenthood, one of America's most powerful and politically well-connected organizations.

Will you help us defend Sandra Merritt against this political vendetta?

Your help is especially needed now because both the civil and criminal cases are moving closer to trial. Liberty Counsel attorneys are hard at work and putting in long hours in preparation for a July 17 motions for summary judgment hearing in the civil suit. And a two-week preliminary hearing in the criminal case is set to start September 3.

With the pace of legal activity quickening, I am asking Liberty Counsel friends like you to help us raise $20,000 above our monthly budget between now and June 30. Your generosity today will defend Sandra and fuel the fight for life, freedom and the family nationwide.

+ + Targeting the messenger...

AG Becerra's campaign to crush Sandra is all-the-more outrageous when you consider the nationwide impact of her revelations.

Americans reacted with shock, anger and indignation when she and her colleague David Daleiden released their undercover videos exposing Planned Parenthood. And the videos led to swift legal action...

• At least two California firms were successfully prosecuted, forced to pay almost $8 million in penalties, and shuttered permanently in connection with their unlawful baby parts transactions.
• Several states and the federal government moved to defund Planned Parenthood to varying degrees.
• The United States Congress conducted an investigation and referred Planned Parenthood to law enforcement agencies for criminal prosecution in connection with its illegal profiteering from aborted baby body parts.

But in California, instead of indicting and prosecuting Planned Parenthood for its documented criminal conduct, the California Attorney General brought this unprecedented criminal action against the journalists who exposed Planned Parenthood!

And in California, now Planned Parenthood is, effectively, on the prosecution team.

Please stand with Sandra Merritt and give to help us defend her against Planned Parenthood's "unholy alliance" with California AG Becerra.

Thank you for your friendship and for partnering with Liberty Counsel as we defend life, freedom and the family!

Sincerely,

Mat Staver
Founder and Chairman