Lila Rose
American anti-abortion activist (born 1988) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.
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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 |
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 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 pro-life 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]
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- 2008: "Person of the Year Malachi Award" from Operation Rescue[19]
- 2008: Awarded $50,000 in the annual "Life Prizes" awards of the Gerard Health Foundation[6][20]
- 2010: "Young Leader Award" from the Susan B. Anthony List[21]
- 2013: Named to the National Journal's list, "The 25 Most Influential Washington Women Under 35"[22]
- 2014: Named to Christianity Today's "33 under 33"[23]
- Fighting for Life: Becoming a Force for Change in a Wounded World (2021)[26]
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