Robin Abcarian: The anti-abortion gang that couldn't shoot straight has lost again

Am I going soft?

I am almost starting to feel sorry for David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt, the two antiabortion zealots who infiltrated Planned Parenthood in 2014 intending to bring it down for illegally selling aborted baby parts but instead have found themselves facing huge fines and, potentially, prison time.

Using fake identities, fake drivers' licenses and fake business cards, this pair lied over and over, misrepresenting themselves as officials of an imaginary biomedical company, BioMax Procurement Services, in a failed attempt to entrap Planned Parenthood officials into admitting they traffic in fetal tissue for profit.

As part of their elaboratediscussing how the organization procures fetal tissue for scientific research and what it charges researchers to cover its costs — not to earn a profit, which Nucatola noted repeatedly.