Lila Rose


Lila Grace Rose is an American anti-abortion activist and founder of Live Action. She has conducted undercover, investigative exposés of abortion facilities in the United States, including affiliates of Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

Early life and education

Rose was raised in San Jose, California, the third of eight children. She was home-schooled through the end of high school and majored in history at the University of California, Los Angeles. She was raised as Evangelical Protestant and later converted to Catholicism.

Activism

In 2003, at the age of 15, Rose founded the anti-abortion group Live Action and began giving presentations to schools and youth groups. While at UCLA, she partnered with right-wing activist James O'Keefe. According to Religion Dispatches, Rose and O'Keefe were inspired by American anti-abortion activist Mark Crutcher.
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.
In 2007, Rose visited two Planned Parenthood facilities 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."
Rose was featured in an Atlantic October 2018 original short documentary, "Meet the Face of the Millennial Anti-Abortion Movement."

Recognition and awards