Lila Rose

Lila Grace Rose (born July 27, 1988) is an American Pro-Life activist and the founder of Live Action.

Rose in 2009

Quotes

• When I was nine years old, I stumbled upon a book that contained photos of preborn children who had been killed in the 1st trimester by suction abortion. Even at that age, I could plainly see that abortion involves killing a child and does tremendous violence to its mother. As I grew older, I began to research abortion's impact on our nation, and its effects on the mother -- injuries, infertility, life-long depression and guilt, and even the likelihood for that guilt to manifest itself in physical or emotional abuse of later children. I also studied the lives of those who fought human rights abuses, from slavery to the Nazi extermination of the Jews to the civil rights movement, and activists and advocates like Martin Luther King, Jr., St Teresa of Calcutta, William Wilberforce, and Sophie Scholl.

I started Live Action ​with some school friends of mine when I was ​15 year​s ​old because ​I knew of no other group in my home​town of San Jose that was educating my peers about abortion as a human rights abuse​, about the dignity of children in the womb, ​and about the risks of abortion to women. I felt passionately that if people knew the facts, they would become pro-life. I also was convicted: I had been given life, I knew how precious life was, but there were children close to me, in my own city, who were not protected.

• An Interview with Anti-Abortion Activist Lila Rose (November 18, 2015)