Live Action President Lila Rose has been one of the pro-life movement’s most effective and articulate advocates in recent memory. Her undercover work has earned her attention from countless media outlets and in the halls of Congress where her video of a woman trying to obtain a sex-selective abortion led to the introduction of legislation to ban it.
Rose spoke Thursday afternoon before the National Right to Life Convention, a gathering of most prominent pro-life supporters in the nation, in Arlington, Va.
Rose’s path to prominence in the pro-life movement began when she saw picture of an aborted child when she was just nine, and it has affected her ever since. Rose, 23, founded Live Action when she was just 15.
Her investigative journalism career began when she was a freshman at UCLA. She had seen a culture of “sexual promiscuity” and “dorm parties” in what she called the “hook-up culture.”
Rose decided to investigate UCLA’s university health center thanks to a suggestion from James O’Keefe.
She found that young pregnant women who went into the medical center at UCLA were frequently pressured into having an abortion.
Rose later began targeting Planned Parenthood clinic where she discovered that employees who ran some of the abortion clinics were willing to look the other way on statutory rape and never discouraged abortion.
Her investigative work led Rose and Live Action to investigate whether or not sex-selective abortions were being performed—despite only being illegal in four states. The most recent investigative videos can be seen at protectourgirls.com. Arizona is one of the few states with bans on sex-selective abortions, and the focus of much of the Live Action investigation.
In an exclusive interview with Red Alert Politics, Rose said Live Action that Planned Parenthood had been pressuring women to abort their children if they were girls.
“We were receiving tips from women that were pressured into having an abortion when it was a girl,” said Rose. “This actually leads to an industry incentive to get rid of women.”
Both Planned Parenthood and the National Organization for Women (NOW) have publically condemned sex selective abortions, but the practice continues. The recent undercover video “exposes their real agenda,” according to Rose.
She argues both are more serious about protecting abortion than they are protecting women’s rights.
Law enforcement should be looking into and investigating abortion clinics in places where sex selective abortions are illegal, Rose said.
She cited only the health board in Alabama where there are sometimes undercover stings.
The primary purpose of the videos on Live Action’s website is to raise public awareness of the threat of abortion.
“The clinics in Arizona should be delicensed and prosecuted,” Ros said. “They need to be held accountable on the sex selective ban. Politically, however, the end game would be a constitutional amendment.”
