The right to abortion is not a real right.
My bodily autonomy doesn’t give me licence to kill.
Period.
We have to change the way we look at this entirely and get that message to everyone.
I’m Lila Rose.
I’ve been a pro-life activist for 15 years.
The pro-life movement is today’s authentic women’s movement.
The popular narrative has been that abortion is somehow going to empower women
when we know that it is an act of violence against our children.
Live Action is a non-profit dedicated to educating the masses on the truth of abortion.
We want it rejected culturally and legally.
We are reaching millions of people on a monthly basis through social media, through Live Action News.
But the goal is, how do we get these stories in front of every single person?
People that claim to be feminist, and people that claim to be pro-women,
but are out there advocating for abortion, they are still stuck in this very antiquated
view that abortion equals women’s empowerment.
We are publishing content every day to millions of people.
Content that exposes what abortion is.
I’m catholic, so my faith is extremely important to me.
Take this all of you and drink from it, for this is the chalice of my blood.
Our rights, our human rights, don't come from the state.
There's a higher power and there's an absolute truth
that we can agree on, that we can build the society on.
For the kingdom and the power and the glory are yours, now and forever.
When I was a little girl I think I had heard the word abortion,
but I didn’t understand what it was.
Around the age of nine I came across images of children.
Beautiful.
But had that been torn apart by first-trimester section abortion.
And it inspired me to say "I have to do something.”
What are the thoughts going through your mind right now?
I don't know, it's gonna be fun..
In preparation I ended up bleaching my hair platinum blonde, Hannah Montana outfit
at the time was the rage, got it from Walmart.
Put together a whole identity of what this girl was going through.
I'm taking on the persona of this young girl, who's an abuse victim.
We're using undercover cameras, I'm posing as a 13-year-old girl named Brianna.
I tell the Planned Parenthood worker that I had a 31-year-old boyfriend.
I remember watching the view count on the youtube videos start to skyrocket.
I call it advocacy journalism.
A pro-life group stage an undercover sting at Planned Parenthood,
and the results are shocking
The video was shot by this anti-abortion group.
They call themselves Live Action, and its led by, there she is, 22 year old Lila Rose.
The cry from the pro-choice side against the Live Action videos is always been that
they are edited unfairly,
that they only selectively show some of the conversations that she was having,
or that they are manufactured all together.
Lila Rose has been a huge pain in the side of Planned Parenthood
and I think that they view her along with other pro-life activists
as being a huge threat to women.
Lila Rose is one of the most charismatic figures in the pro-life movement.
As long as they are legal in our nation, abortions would be done in the public square,
until we were so sick and tired of seeing them that
we would do away with the injustice altogether.
Lila over time has certainly become more polished.
She has been able to take the model of a young, millennial feminist and transform that into
a young, millennial, pro-life feminist.
Women in our country have walked into classrooms powerful,
we have walked into the voting booth powerful.
but today, after winning the so-called right to abortion, women walk into abortion facilities
powerless.
She’s professionalized.
That has allowed her to have longevity,
rather than just being a scandal maker, blip.
She has been able to transform her platform into not just an insurgent bunch of people
with handheld cams, going into an abortion clinic and trying to find some dirt,
but rather really a platform for a movement.
EWTN: And we are joined now by Lila Rose, president of Live Action.
Unfortunately for our country, in many states
you can commit and abortion on a child that is viable, that can survive outside the womb.
Today we learned justice Anthony Kennedy is retiring from the court.
President Trump, right there in the middle, will get a chance to shape the court
for at least a generation.
This is a pivotal moment.
If we have another Supreme court justice appointed who recognizes
that Roe v. Wade is bad law, it could change everything.
We urge congress, the administration and HHS to continue to take action
on behalf of our most vulnerable.
Hi, I'm appreciative of being here, standing here with, surrounded by so many pro-life
supporters who've done so much work for so long.
Not only here in this Congress, but across this country.
And I am one of the big fans of Lila Rose and the research that she's done.
I think we are going to see an end to legalized and culturally accepted abortion in my lifetime.
I'm excited to be alive and be a part of it.