Prairie State Wire

A California law firm working as special counsel for the Chicago-based Thomas More Society has been stymied in its attempts to place TV ads alerting former clients of Planned Parenthood, an abortion provider, that they could be entitled to compensation through legal action.

Paul Jonna, partner with LiMandri & Jonna of Rancho Santa Fe, California, told Prairie State Wire that because the ads called out Planned Parenthood for allegedly lying to women about the handling of the remains of their aborted babies, it was rejected by TV stations and streaming services. Only one station agreed to run the ads, provided it was “toned down.”

“We believe there must be tens of thousands of women out there who have been wronged by Planned Parenthood and deserve compensation,” Jonna said. “But we’re having trouble getting that message out to them.”

Women in the ads tell their audience that instead of donating the organs and tissue of aborted children to research laboratories, as Planned Parenthood had promised them, the abortion provider allegedly instead sold the body parts on the black market and made a hefty profit. 

Jonna said a recounting of this questionable practice was documented by video and audio tapes made five years ago by undercover citizen journalist David Daleiden of the Center for Medical Progress, and later corroborated through congressional investigations. Daleiden was hit with criminal charges, initiated by then California Attorney General Kamala Harris, a Planned Parenthood supporter, and civil charges. LiMandri & Jonna assisted Thomas More in Daleiden’s defense.

“Planned Parenthood had women sign consent forms promising that the organs and tissue would be donated and that no changes in the abortion procedures would occur to obtain them,” Jonna said. “These women were lied to. There’s also considerable evidence that babies were born alive as a result of the methods Planned Parenthood used to ensure that tissue samples sold were fully intact.”

Jonna added that Planned Parenthood’s scaring off TV stations and streaming services is part of the abortion providers’ all-out offensive that began with the charges against Daleiden.

“So far they have managed to avoid criminal and civil charges,” Jonna said.

That might soon change. The law firm is planning to send the ads out via social media, and has the complaint against Planned Parenthood ready to go.

It plans to assert claims for medical battery and breach of fiduciary duty as well as claims for violation of the California Consumer Legal Remedies Act and violation of California’s Unfair Competition Law. It also plans to seek injunctive relief, restitution of monies received as a result of fetal tissue transfers, compensatory damages, punitive damages and attorney fees.