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Lila Rose is a pro-life activist and founder of Live Action. She is noteworthy for a series of campaigns against Planned Parenthood clinics which perform abortions in the United States. In 2008 she recived the "Life Prizes" award.
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 2009, as an invited speaker at the Values Voters Summit, she said, "If I could insist, as long as they are legal in our nation, abortions would be done in the public square until we were so sick and tired of seeing them that we would do away with the injustice altogether."
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 the fall of 2006. Since then, Rose has conducted stings at Planned Parenthood clinics in and around several major cities.
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."
2011 undercover videos
In February 2011, Rose released a series of undercover videos filmed in several different cities showing an unidentified man and a woman posing as a pimp and a prostitute soliciting advice from Planned Parenthood clinic workers on how to procure abortions and birth control for underage prostitutes. Rose said the videos prove "beyond a shadow of a doubt that Planned Parenthood intentionally breaks state and federal laws and covers up the abuse of the young girls it claims to serve. The clinic worker in the first video was fired but workers in the others were not." In response, Planned Parenthood reported at least 12 visits to its clinics by the man in the video to the FBI. YouTube, on which the videos were posted, considered removing the videos from its site, but agreed with a letter sent by the Thomas More Society showing that the videos did not violate privacy rights or YouTube's own policies. Attorney General of Virginia Ken Cuccinelli said he might investigate Planned Parenthood as a result of the videos but said the videos portrayed actors not Planned Parenthood facilitating sex trafficking. But Live Action national counsel Peter Breen said an actual case is not needed, comparing the undercover journalism in the videos to that of NBC's To Catch a Predator'
Awards and accolades
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.
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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- 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
- Anti-abortion group releases more video of Planned Parenthood
- Abortion Activists Attempt to Discredit Planned Parenthood with Second Video
- US fight over abortion heats up again
- Lila Rose vs. Planned Parenthood
- Planned Parenthood Seeks FBI Probe into Possible Ploy by Anti-Abortion Group
- ^ Lila Rose vs. Planned Parenthood
- Life Prizes Announces Award Winners Lila Rose
External links
- Lila Rose's page on the Live Action website