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Grand jury indicts anti-abortion activists behind Planned Parenthood videos

A Texas grand jury investigating Planned Parenthood has indicted two anti-abortion activists who covertly shot videos of the organization.
A portrait of David Daleiden, founder of The Center for Medical Progress at the Value Voters Summit, taken on Sept. 25, 2015 in Washington DC. (Photo by Charles Ommanney/The Washington Post/Getty)
A portrait of David Daleiden, founder of The Center for Medical Progress at the Value Voters Summit, taken on Sept. 25, 2015 in Washington DC.

A Texas grand jury investigating Planned Parenthood has indicted two anti-abortion activists who covertly shot videos of the organization.

Harris County District Attorney Devon Anderson announced Monday that Center for Medical Progress founder David Daleiden was indicted on a felony charge of tampering with a governmental record and a misdemeanor count related to purchasing human organs. Another activist was also indicted on a charge of tampering with a governmental record.

A news release announcing the indictment doesn't say what the record was.

Anderson said the grand jury cleared Planned Parenthood of any wrongdoing.

The Center for Medical Progress is the anti-abortion group that released covertly shot videos of Planned Parenthood officials discussing the sale of aborted fetuses for research.

A phone message left with the group wasn't immediately returned.