Lila Rose

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. 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 conservative activist James O'Keefe to conduct undercover videos of abortion providers. 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.