Story highlights Judge William H. Orrick, III issued the restraining order out of concern for the safety of National Abortion Federation leaders

David Daleiden, the head of The Center for Medical Progress, called the National Abortion Federation a "criminal organization"

Washington (CNN) A federal judge in California issued a temporary restraining order Friday against the group that has released several undercover videos of Planned Parenthood leaders after it attempted to release secretly-recorded footage of a different abortion group.

The Center for Medical Progress, an anti-abortion group, secretly recorded meetings of the National Abortion Federation, an international organization of abortion providers. The Center for Medical Progress has made headlines over the last month for releasing heavily edited videos -- in addition to other clips that the group says are unedited -- that allegedly show Planned Parenthood illegally selling fetal tissue.

District Judge William H. Orrick III in San Francisco issued the restraining order out of concern for the safety of National Abortion Federation leaders.

"NAF would be likely to suffer irreparable injury, absent an ex parte temporary restraining order, in the form of harassment, intimidation, violence, invasion of privacy, and injury to reputation, and the requested relief is in the public interest," he wrote.

David Daleiden, the head of The Center for Medical Progress, called the National Abortion Federation, to which multiple Planned Parenthood affiliates belong, a "criminal organization" in a statement Friday.

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