Who is Lila Rose?
Rose, a devout Catholic and aspiring actress, founded Live Action as a 15-year-old, and started making films three years later. Since then, she has become a leading light of the antiabortion movement, frequently giving speeches and appearing on cable news shows. “We take the video cameras, and we use them because in a way they’re a weapon. They can reveal truth and show what’s really happening, say, inside an abortion clinic,” Rose, a soft-spoken California native, said in a CNN profile. In her work, Rose has focused on issues like the high abortion rate in the black community – an effort supported by Alveda King, Martin Luther King Jr.’s niece. Rose recently quoted King’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail and his exhortation for activists to use “creative extremism” to fight for civil rights. Both Rose and O’Keefe were trained by The Leadership Institute, a conservative Washington organization led by Morton Blackwell, Reagan’s youth mobilization coordinator. O’Keefe has taken his creative
