>>Yesterday, U.S. District Court Judge William Orrick III ordered pro-life activist Sandra Merritt to pay Planned Parenthood over $13 million in “attorney fees and costs,” in addition to more than $2 million in damages awarded by the jury. >>Merritt and colleague David Daleiden, the founder of The Center for Medical Progress, released 14 videos in 2015 exposing Planned Parenthood’s illegal sales of aborted baby body parts after a 30-month undercover operation. The videos showed top-level Planned Parenthood executives haggling over prices of aborted baby body parts and discussing alternative methods for doctors to better harvest fetal organs during abortion procedures. >>According to Liberty Council, the law firm representing Merritt, Orrick would not allow the jury to view any of the undercover videos during the six-week trial. He also told jury members to not consider the trial a First Amendment case “where freedom of speech and the press could be considered as a defense.”