Lila Rose | |
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Born | Lila Grace Rose July 27, 1988 San Jose, California, U.S. |
Alma mater | University of California, Los Angeles |
Known for | Anti-abortion activism |
Title | Founder and president of Live Action |
Children | 3 |
Lila Grace Rose (born July 27, 1988) is an American anti-abortion activist who is the founder and president of the anti-abortion organization Live Action. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] She has conducted undercover investigations of abortion facilities in the United States, including affiliates of Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
Rose was raised in San Jose, California, the third of eight children. [6] She was home-schooled through the end of high school and majored in history at the University of California, Los Angeles. [6] She was raised as Evangelical Protestant and later converted to Roman Catholicism. [7] [8] [9]
In 2003, at the age of 15, Rose founded the anti-abortion group Live Action and began giving presentations to schools and youth groups. [6] [10] While at UCLA, [11] she partnered with conservative activist James O'Keefe to conduct undercover videos of abortion providers. [12]
Rose has concentrated her activism on Planned Parenthood and National Abortion Federation affiliates in the United States, focusing on the anti-abortion interpretation of the moral and ethical aspects of abortion and financial issues in the abortion industry. She has also highlighted the high abortion rate in the African-American community. [13]
In 2006, Rose, as a college freshman, conducted her first undercover video investigation on abortion at UCLA's Arthur Ashe Student Health and Wellness Center. [6] Her freshman year she also founded the anti-abortion student magazine The Advocate. [12]
In 2007, Rose visited two Planned Parenthood facilities in Los Angeles and recorded undercover videos while purporting to be a 15-year-old girl who had been impregnated by a 23-year-old male who was accompanying her, telling staffers she did not want her parents to find out about the relationship. No employee at either clinic objected to the situation, and a receptionist at one facility "told Rose to say she was 16, because if she was 15, the clinic would have to make a report to the police." [14] Rose has posed as an abortion-seeking teen impregnated by an older man in additional stings at Planned Parenthood clinics in Indianapolis, Bloomington, Tucson, Phoenix and Memphis. [6] According to Politico , "Within the anti-abortion community, Rose has been widely lauded for her undercover investigations into abortion clinics." [15]
Rose was featured in an Atlantic October 2018 original short documentary, "Meet the Face of the Millennial Anti-Abortion Movement." [16]
In July 2019, Rose addressed the White House "social media summit" alongside President Donald Trump. [17] [18]
Rose has also taken a critical stance on hormonal birth control and intrauterine devices (IUDs). Through social media campaigns and interviews, Rose has made statements regarding the contraceptive methods, alleging they are "massively unhealthy" and contribute to divorce, and a "hookup culture" that can lead to abortion following contraceptive failure despite the lack of scientific evidence supporting these assertions. While medical authorities state that hormonal contraception primarily prevents ovulation, Rose and Live Action have made statements that some forms of hormonal birth control could prevent a fertilized egg from implanting in the uterus, which they consider an abortifacient. This perspective aligns with a broader strategy among some anti-abortion groups to argue for the illegality of certain contraceptives under state abortion bans that define life from the moment of fertilization. Rose has stated that if a contraceptive is "designed as an abortifacient", it should be considered an abortion and therefore illegal in jurisdictions that outlaw abortion. [19] [20]
Rose has been married since, 2018 and has three children. [26] [27] [28] [29]
Lila Rose, a leading anti-abortion campaigner.
Lila Rose, president and founder of Pro-Life group Live Action, said Planned Parenthood's plans to spend millions on the elections should fuel calls to strip taxpayer funding for the group.
One anti-abortion group, Live Action, has used the case to publicize the latest in a series of undercover videos it has made at abortion clinics.
Lila Rose, president of Live Action, an anti-abortion advocacy group.
When Rose went to UCLA for her undergraduate degree, she took Live Action with her.