I’ve always felt it important to bring some attention and kudos to young people who do things out of personal conviction, not out of a quest for fame and fortune. Before there were O’Keefes and Giles’, there was/is Lila Rose who runs Live Action Films. Lila, thanks for dropping by.
Hi, Bob.
While most people your age are out partying in Cabo, you were stinging Planned Parenthood clinics. What brought that about?
Haha! Well, I started up the pro-life group Live Action when I was about 15, and so I studied and researched the pro-life issue a lot. I had read about the work of other pro-life activists to expose the illicit activity of the tax-funded abortion giant Planned Parenthood.
My freshman year of college — four years ago, I actually met James O’Keefe and did my first undercover operation with him. We wanted to take the next step in pro-life activism and actually record the abuses of Planned Parenthood on video, then use the new media to spread the truth.
Fifteen…!
To jog some memories, a few years ago, I was very happy to see you get some national media attention when you had an undercover camera capture an abortion clinic worker tell a supposed 13-year-old girl how to get an abortion out of state, even though the supposed person who impregnated her was in his thirties. How did you find out about this crap?
Sadly there are minor girls all across the U.S. who become the victims of sex predators. If the little girl gets pregnant, the predator will take them to an abortion clinic to destroy the “evidence” of the crime–which is the unborn child. I read about court cases and other research that had been done on the abortion industry serving as a SAFETY NET for sex predators
It was pretty awful to read some of the stories.
We wanted to get evidence of this sex abuse cover up happening at Planned Parenthood abortion clinics. In the Summer of 2008, I traveled across the country with a small team of young people, posing as a 13 or 14-year-old girl. I reported to Planned Parenthood clinicians in many different states that I was the victim of sex abuse by a man twice my age and recorded them on undercover equipment covering up that abuse.
So, let’s bring this up to date: videotape destroyed (kinda) ACORN. Despite your video stings, why is Planned Parenthood still operating unimpeded?
They have definitely had to deal with some consequences.
We released the videos from that summer investigation over a whole year, 2009-2010. When we released the undercover video from Memphis, TN, showing sex abuse cover up at a Planned Parenthood, the TN legislature voted to defund PP up to 1.1 million
As we released more videos, activists in Orange County, CA succeeded in convincing the Board of Supervisors to end funding of PP of about $300,000. PP employees were fired or suspended at two clinics in Indiana after we released videos. And after we released a video from Birmingham, Alabama, the AL Health Department opened up an investigation and put the PP clinic on a one year probation for 9 different legal violations.
Many of these results have gone basically unreported on in the national mainstream media. However, local media regularly covers these stories, including the AP and the local TV, radio and top newspapers in each state we investigate.
Lastly, has the new health care reform law put any new issues your way that need be exposed?
The “health care” bill includes enormous amounts of potential tax money that will go to pay for abortions and fund Planned Parenthood.
PP predicts that abortions will increase 25% with this new government run “health care” There is a big need here to expose these little known facts… we are busy at work right now and have a lot of plans for the future.
How can people find out more about your work at Live Action Films?
We’d love to get in touch with you there and all our videos and other projects are available there as well.
Lila Rose, don’t be a stranger and let me know what you’re up to so I can help get the word out.
Thank you, Bob
Note: There is hope for the future after all.
Lila,
You’re as beautiful as you are smart, a combination no pro-abortion liberal can match! Keep up the great work, and always remember we in the heartland wholeheartedly support your efforts to stop public funding of abortions and the abuses of PP. Thank you!
ya she IS definitely beautiful in mind, body, and soul. fantastic that she had the gumption to DO this work AT 15 no less! Bravo to her! hat’s off!
Shield this young lady with prayer.
Invoke Isaiah 54:17 — That no weapon formed against her shall prosper.
This just in: Those who would advocate and perform the killing of babies in the womb also just might tell lies and encourage others to tell lies…
An impressive young woman doing important work for others. Now that is the heart of America!
Excellent interview! Amazing woman. I am constantly shocked that her videos do not receive more attention from the MSM. Well done, Lila! Keep it up!