Pro-life group that exposed Planned Parenthood is target of malware attack

The Center for Medical Progress (CMP), the pro-life group responsible for exposing Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry for the alleged illegal sales of fetal body parts, has become the victim of a malware attack which took down the group's website.

Key Takeaways:

• David Daleiden announced that CMP's website suffered a "custom-made malware attack" last weekend.

• The attack occurred after the National Institutes for Health (NIH) announced it would no longer allow aborted fetal tissue to be used in government research.

• The CMP website has been down for several days.

The Details:

On January 22, Daleiden tweeted that the CMP website was down, seemingly having been hacked.

"BREAKING: [CMP] website suffered a likely 'custom-made malware attack,' we were told by our web hosting company over the weekend. The timing is disturbing — hours after [the HHS] stopped fetal experimentation funding and [the Small Business Administration] launched fraud investigation of [Planned Parenthood]," he wrote. "We have an expert team working on it, and will hopefully get more information about the source of the 'custom-made' cyber attack soon. I was told this sort of attack typically comes from a 'competitor' or opponent of the organization, or other bad actors."

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🚨BREAKING: @CtrMedProgress website suffered a likely "custom-made malware attack", we were told by our web hosting company over the weekend. The timing is disturbing—hours after @HHSGov stopped fetal experimentation funding and @SBAgov launched fraud investigation of @PPFA.

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He added that "the timing looks suspiciously like retaliation for last week's major developments."

As of January 29, the CMP website remains down.

In an e-mail sent to writer Sarah Terzo, Daleiden again reiterated that he believes the timing is suspicious. Terzo quoted the e-mail on her Substack:

[E]ven though this would be a scary event at any time, it’s hard not to notice the timing this weekend —

Literally just hours after Secretary Kennedy announced the END of all HHS funding for experiments on aborted baby body parts, “effective immediately”, and the Trump Administration announced that Planned Parenthood Federation of America is now under investigation for COVID loan fraud...CMP’s public web presence falls victim to a “custom-made” cyber attack.

It looks suspiciously like retaliation. [Emphasis in original]

In the meantime, Daleiden said CMP is continuing to work on new projects, and hopes the website will be back up again soon.

The Backstory:

As Daleiden pointed out, CMP investigations led directly to recent action taken affecting the abortion industry.

The NIH announced on January 22 — the same day as the attack on the CMP website — that research using fetal tissue from elective abortions would no longer be permitted within the organization. Just days later, the Small Business Administration (SBA) announced that Planned Parenthood is being investigated under suspicion of having illegally received $88 million in loans during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Numerous Planned Parenthood affiliates received funding through the federal Paycheck Protection Program, despite being ineligible to receive it. The program was meant to help small businesses with less than 500 employees stay afloat during the pandemic. Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest abortion chain, did not qualify under those parameters.

The Bottom Line:

The CMP attack appears to be an attempt to silence a pro-life organization and keep it from continuing to expose the abortion industry. With Daleiden stating that new projects are forthcoming, it raises the question: what might the abortion industry be trying to hide now?