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| Known for | Activism against Planned Parenthood |
Lila Rose is a pro-life activist and founder of Live Action. She is most noteworthy for a series of campaigns against Planned Parenthood abortion clinics in the United States.
Biography
Rose was raised in San Jose, California, the third of eight children of an engineer at Sun Microsystems. She was home-schooled through to the end of high school, and was a history major at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is a devout Catholic.
Rose founded the pro-life group Live Action when she was 15 and continued her activism at UCLA. Rose has attended workshops at the conservative non-profit Leadership Institute. In 2008, she was personally awarded $50,000 in the annual "Life Prizes" awards, sponsored by the Gerard Health Foundation, for "preserving and upholding the sanctity of human life." In 2009, she was named a "Young Leader" by the anti-abortion non-profit Susan B. Anthony List. In 2009, as an invited speaker at the Values Voters Summit, she stated her opinion that abortions should be performed in public.
Activism
At the age of 15, Rose founded Live Action and began giving presentations to schools and youth groups. She and fellow conservative activist James O’Keefe III found inspiration in Saul Alinsky's grassroots organizing handbook "Rules for Radicals". After having been further inspired by Texas activist Mark Crutcher's taping of fake calls to Planned Parenthood clinics featuring women posing as pregnant minors, they came up with the idea to visit Planned Parenthood clinics wearing secret video cameras in fall 2006. Since then, Rose has conducted stings at Planned Parenthood clinics in Los Angeles, Indianapolis, Bloomington, Tucson, Phoenix and Memphis.
The pretenses used in these operations vary. These include Rose acting the part of a minor impregnated by a 23-year old male, where she claimed center staff advised her to lie about her age and ignored her partner's age. Rose also released recordings of O'Keefe attempting to elicit racially charged responses from clinic staff by offering donations to pay for abortions for black woman. Another act had Rose posing as a 13-year-old minor impregnated by a 31-year-old man.
Rose shot an undercover video at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Birmingham, Alabama which resulted in the state placing the clinic on probation for a year over what they said was a "technical violation."
A Salon.com editorial criticized a set of five 2011 incidents, disparaging O'Keefe's influence by name and suggesting the videos were deceptively edited. More specifically, it said that the organization was "trying to pull a James O'Keefe-style "sting," in which deceptively edited Internet videos would prove some organization dedicated to providing services to the poor or otherwise non-privileged was in fact engaged in high crimes and conspiracy against freedom."
Her videos are usually released after editing down to about five minutes with quick cuts and a soundtrack for effect.
References
- ^ Robin Abcarian, "Anti-abortion movement gets a new-media twist" The Los Angeles Times, April 26, 2009 (accessed 18 May 2010)
- http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,518130,00.html
- ^ Jonsson, Patrik (February 4, 2011), "For Lila Rose, Planned Parenthood video 'sting' is about revolution", Christian Science Monitor, retrieved February 6, 2011
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- Life Prizes Announces Award Winners Lila Rose
- Ross Douthat, "The Politics of Pregnancy Counseling", The New York Times, December 3, 2009 (accessed 18 May 2010)
- Shaila Dewan, "To Court Blacks, Foes of Abortion Make Racial Case", The New York Times, February 26, 2010 (accessed 18 May 2010)
- http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-6197723-504083.html
- http://www.cbs42.com/content/localnews/story/Planned-Parenthood-Caught-Breaking-the-Law/C41MzG-1vU-u0KRpHkAl3A.cspx
- Pareen, Alex (February 1, 2011), "The weird, failed Planned Parenthood "sting"", Salon.com, retrieved February 2, 2011
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External links
- Lila Rose's page on the Live Action website