LOS ANGELES — California prosecutors on Tuesday charged two antiabortion activists who made undercover videos of themselves trying to buy fetal tissue from Planned Parenthood with 15 felonies, saying they invaded the privacy of medical providers by filming without consent.

State Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced the charges against David Daleiden of Davis, Calif., and Sandra Merritt of San Jose. The two operate the Irvine-based Center for Medical Progress.

The allegations say the pair filmed 14 people without permission between October 2013 and July 2015 in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and El Dorado counties.

Becerra said they used a fictitious bioresearch company to meet with women’s health care providers and covertly record them.

Daleiden, in an e-mail, said the ‘‘bogus’’ charges are coming from ‘‘Planned Parenthood’s political cronies.’’

‘‘The public knows the real criminals are Planned Parenthood and their business partners,’’ Daleiden said.

Daleiden and Merritt had previously been indicted in Texas on similar charges in January 2016, but all were eventually dropped by July as prosecutors said a grand jury had overstepped its authority. The grand jury had originally been convened to investigate Planned Parenthood, but after finding no wrongdoing indicted Daleiden and Merritt instead.

Associated Press