David Daleiden
| David Daleiden | |
|---|---|
| Born |
David Robert Daleiden January 1, 1989 Santa Clara County, California U.S. |
| Nationality | United States |
| Education | Davis Senior High School (2007) |
| Alma mater | Claremont McKenna College |
| Occupation | Activist |
| Home town | Davis, California |
David Robert Daleiden (born 1989) is a pro-life activist who worked for Live Action before founding the Irvine, California-based Center for Medical Progress in 2013.
Daleiden says he is the "child of a crisis pregnancy" and grew up "culturally Catholic." His mother, Gina Surkala Daleiden, served for 9 years as a trustee on the Davis School Board and is the executive director of First 5 Yolo, a state taxpayer funded early childhood development program.
Daleiden graduated from Davis High School in 2007 and later from Claremont McKenna College.
In 2015, Daleiden released videos showing Planned Parenthood officials discussing fees for human fetal tissue and organs. Daleiden, an associate of Lila Rose, ran a Live Action chapter in 2007 and was the organization’s director of research "during the early stages" of the project to make secret recordings of Planned Parenthood clinics. He originally registered his Center for Medical Progress as a tax-exempt biomedical charity. In furtherance of his plan, he set up a sham biomedical research company called Biomax Procurement Services. Daleiden and his co-conspirator, Sandra Merritt, posed as employees of Biomax and orchestrated surreptitious recordings of interviews where his associates asked about tissue donation costs, and questioned whether tissue samples could be acquired from African American patients with sickle-cell anemia. After its real activities were exposed, Daleiden re-registered his Center for Medical Progress as a journalistic organization.
Planned Parenthood asserts that they may donate fetal tissue at the request of a patient, but such tissue is never sold. According to Molly Redden of The Guardian, the content of the videos were "broadly considered to be false, the product of aggressive and misleading editing." The videos themselves, and transcripts of the full-length raw footage, can be seen at CMP's web site (see External Links section).
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