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| Lila Rose | |
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 Lila Rose at the 2008 Life Prizes ceremony | |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Known for | Activism against Planned Parenthood |
Lila Rose is an American pro-life activist and the founder of the pro-life group Live Action. She is noteworthy for a series of campaigns against Planned Parenthood health centers 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 2009, as an invited speaker at the Values Voters Summit, she suggested that abortions should be performed in public.
Awards
In 2008, she was personally awarded $50,000 in the annual "Life Prizes" awards, sponsored by the Gerard Health Foundation, a pro-life charity. In 2009, she was named a "Young Leader" by the pro-life non-profit Susan B. Anthony List.
Activism
At the age of 15, Rose founded Live Action and began giving presentations to schools and youth groups. She and conservative activist James O’Keefe III found inspiration in activist 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, in the fall of 2006, they came up with the idea to visit Planned Parenthood clinics wearing secret video cameras. 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. The video purports to show staff saying "I didn't hear the age. I don't want to hear the age... child abuse."
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.
Rose was featured in the 2010 CNN documentary Right on the Edge, which spotlighted young conservative activists.
2011 undercover videos
In February 2011, Rose released 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 Planned Parenthood intentionally breaks laws and covers up abuse. Planned Parenthood reported at least 12 visits to its clinics by the man in the video to the FBI. 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 employees 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'
References
- ^ Robin Abcarian, "Anti-abortion movement gets a new-media twist" The Los Angeles Times, April 26, 2009 (accessed 18 May 2010)
- Beck, Glenn (April 27, 2009). "UCLA Student Gets 'Underage' Abortion Advice". Transcript of the Glenn Beck Program at FoxNews.
- ^ Jonsson, Patrik (February 4, 2011), "For Lila Rose, Planned Parenthood video 'sting' is about revolution", Christian Science Monitor, retrieved February 6, 2011
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ^ Phillips-Sandy, Mary (February 1, 2011). "Lila Rose: 5 Facts on the Woman Behind the Planned Parenthood Hoax [VIDEOS]". AolNews.
- 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)
- Oliver, Kealan (February 11, 2010). "Planned Parenthood Video Sting: Was Clinic Allowing Secret Abortions?". CBS News.
- "Planned Parenthood Caught Breaking the Law". CBS 42 (Birmingham, AL). February 11, 2010.
- Inside "Right On The Edge"
- 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
- Planned Parenthood Seeks FBI Probe into Possible Ploy by Anti-Abortion Group
- ^ Lila Rose vs. Planned Parenthood
External links
- Lila Rose's page on the Live Action website