Mr. Daleiden, who spearheaded the undercover Center for Medical Progress video series, made a public records request in February for documents detailing transactions between the university’s Birth Defects Research Center and Planned Parenthood.
The university had planned to release the documents Friday, but Planned Parenthood filed a federal class-action lawsuit two days earlier to suppress their release.
The Center for Medical Progress said the documents shed light on a taxpayer-funded “fetal harvesting service at the University of Washington.”
“The American people, whose tax dollars make this entire barbaric industry possible, deserve to know the truth,” the Center for Medical Progress said in a statement.
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