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The Rosa Acuna Project was a 4 part series of investigations of abortion clinics carried out by Rose over an 8-month span in late 2009 and early 2010.<ref>http://liveaction.org/rosaacuna</ref> |
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Revision as of 20:34, 8 February 2011
Lila Rose | |
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Nationality | American |
Known for | Activism against Planned Parenthood |
Lila Rose is a pro-life (anti-abortion) activist, a devout Catholic, and the founder of the pro-life group Live Action. She rose to prominence through a series of campaigns against Planned Parenthood health centers in the United States.[1]
Biography
Rose was raised in San Jose, California, the third of eight children of an engineer at Sun Microsystems. She was home-schooled through to the end of high school, and was a history major at the University of California, Los Angeles.[2] Throughout her life, Rose has been active in pro-life circles, she founded Live Action when 15 and continued her activism at UCLA.[3] Rose has attended workshops at the Leadership Institute, a conservative Washington organization, headed by Morton Blackwell.[1][4] Rose told the Los Angeles Times that she was 20 years old in 2009.[1] In 2008, she was personally awarded $50,000 in the annual "Life Prizes" awards sponsored by the Gerard Health Foundation "which promotes anti-abortion activities and abstinence-only sex education."[3] She was named a "Young Leader" by the Susan B. Anthony List, another anti-abortion non-profit. [3] In 2009, she stated that abortions "should be performed in public" while an invited speaker at the Values Voters Summit.[3]
"Activism"
At the age of 15, Rose founded Live Action and began giving presentations to schools and youth groups.[1] She and her friend, fellow conservative activist James O’Keefe III found inspiration in activist Saul Alinsky's grassroots organizing handbook "Rules for Radicals".[1] After having been further inspired by Texas activist Mark Crutcher's taping of fake calls to Planned Parenthood clinics featuring women posing as pregnant minors, they came up with the idea to visit Planned Parenthood clinics wearing secret video cameras in fall 2006. Since then, Rose has conducted stings at Planned Parenthood clinics in Los Angeles, Indianapolis, Bloomington, Tucson, Phoenix and Memphis.[1]
The acts used in these, so called, "stings" vary. These include an act where Rose acts the part of a minor impregnated by a 23-year old male where she claimed center staff advised her to lie about her age and ignored her partner's age.[5] Rose also released recordings of O'Keefe attempting to elicit racially charged responses from clinic staff by offering donations to pay for abortions for black woman.[6] Another act had Rose again posing as a minor, this time as a 13-year-old impregnated by a 31-year-old man. The video purports to show staff saying "I didn't hear the age. I don't want to hear the age.. and that's child abuse."[1]
A Salon.com editorial criticized one such incident as a "James O'Keefe-style 'sting' in which deceptively edited Internet videos would prove that some organization dedicated to providing services to the poor or otherwise non-privileged was in fact engaged in high crimes and conspiracy against freedom."[7] Her work in creating these "stings" have been widely referred to as "hoaxes" perpetuated by "anti-choice groups" "in order to entrap clinic staff."[8][9][10][11]
Her videos are usually released after editing down to about five minutes with quick cuts and a soundtrack for effect.[1] She stated that her videos are about "revolution," widely considered "guerrilla journalism tactics." They have widely been deemed "unacceptable" by critics.[4]
Rosa Acuna Project
The Rosa Acuna Project was a 4 part series of investigations of abortion clinics carried out by Rose over an 8-month span in late 2009 and early 2010.[12]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h Robin Abcarian, "Anti-abortion movement gets a new-media twist" The Los Angeles Times, April 26, 2009 (accessed 18 May 2010)
- ^ http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,518130,00.html
- ^ a b c d http://www.aolnews.com/2011/02/01/lila-rose-5-facts-on-the-woman-behind-the-planned-parenthood-ho/
- ^ a b Jonsson, Patrik (February 4, 2011), "For Lila Rose, Planned Parenthood video 'sting' is about revolution", Christian Science Monitor, retrieved February 6, 2011
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: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ^ Ross Douthat, "The Politics of Pregnancy Counseling", The New York Times, December 3, 2009 (accessed 18 May 2010)
- ^ Shaila Dewan, "To Court Blacks, Foes of Abortion Make Racial Case", The New York Times, February 26, 2010 (accessed 18 May 2010)
- ^ Pareen, Alex (February 1, 2011), "The weird, failed Planned Parenthood "sting"", Salon.com, retrieved February 2, 2011
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: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ^ Philips-Sandy, Mary (February 1, 2011), "Planned Parenthood Hoax [VIDEO]", AOL.com, retrieved February 6, 2011
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: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ^ Tencer, Daniel (February 1, 2011), "Anti-abortion group pushes hoax already uncovered by Planned Parenthood", The Raw Story, retrieved February 6, 2011
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: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ^ http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/02/sex_ring_was_a_hoax_live_action_posts_video_target.php
- ^ http://peoplesworld.org/republicans-drop-forcible-rape-but-war-on-women-continues/
- ^ http://liveaction.org/rosaacuna
External links
- Lila Rose's page on the Live Action website