2013
December 10, 2013
Study IDs reasons for late-term abortions
Cheryl Wetzstein, The Washington Times
“Live Action, the pro-life activist group led by Lila Rose, sought to highlight the financial aspects of the procedure.”
November 18, 2013
What’s at stake in Albuquerque’s late-term abortion referendum
Lila Rose, The Daily Caller
“Ironic that you get more candor from abortion proponents behind the walls of an abortion clinic than from Planned Parenthood spokespeople rigidly insisting on ‘fetus.'”
Live Action: Abortion Industry Built On ‘Profits From Pain’
Matt Vespa, Pajamas Media
“Now, Live Action is going after the profits the abortion industry reaps from these desperate women.”
November 15, 2013
Pro-Life Organizations Join Forces in Albuquerque to Pass 20-Week Abortion Ban
Dr. Susan Berry, Breitbart
“Currently, abortions are legal in Albuquerque any time up until the time of birth.”
November 14, 2013
The Abortion Fight in Albuquerque
Cortney O’Brien, Townhall
“To encourage citizens to check YES next to the ordinance on the ballot, pro-life organizations such as the Susan B. Anthony List and Live Action have been on the ground[.]”
Video: Abortion clinic kills through baby’s head, says no pain felt, price $8,000
Paul Bedard, The Washington Examiner
“Later, when the Live Action investigator shows up at the clinic, it is explained that the fetus will be injected either in its bottom or skull.”
November 7, 2013
Late Term Abortion Battle to Start on Capitol Hill
Katie Pavlich, Townhall
“[T]he Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act banning abortions after five months of pregnancy, something the vast majority of women in America support.”
November 4, 2013
Dire warning to abortion clinic workers: ‘Don’t let your job put you in prison’
Cheryl Wetzstein, The Washington Times
“The abortion industry is ‘united,’ Ms. Rose said. If there’s a problem in one clinic, ‘you’re going to find it in another one.’”
October 30, 2013
What are Kathleen Sebelius’s priorities?
Drew Belsky, The Daily Caller
“Put simply, Kathleen Sebelius, who styles herself a Catholic, wants to force nuns to pay for abortions.”
October 28, 2013
Federal judge blocks key parts of Tex. antiabortion law Monday
Juliet Eilperin, The Washington Post
“Lila Rose, president of the anti-abortion group Live Action said the ruling represented the latest example of an ‘activist judge’ barring ‘an elected state legislature from enforcing life-saving provisions for women. This contempt for women’s safety among our judiciary has become a devastating trend.'”
October 23, 2013
Obama’s Double Standard on Saving Children: Sarin Gas vs. Abortion
Lila Rose, TheBlaze
“The president’s ‘red line’ was revealed as a joke – a source of outright laughter in the House of Representatives. But at least he put up a show of defending innocent children in Syria.”
October 14, 2013
Lila Rose: ‘I Would Leave the Republican Party’ If It Dropped Social Issues
Tyler O’Neil, The Christian Post
“Rose argued that there is no fundamental reason why Democrats should support abortion, but added that ‘it’s really hard’ because most Democrats do not vote or legislate pro-life.”
What International Gendercide Can Teach America About Abortion
Paul Cooper, PJM
“Planned Parenthood says they don’t agree with sex-selective abortions officially and fired the employee in that Live Action video, yet they promise they won’t judge women who get them and will be happy to provide the service.”
September 25, 2013
Are tattoos more risky than abortions?
Sarah Padbury, WORLD Magazine
“How many women would have been spared a regret-filled morning-after if Washington had a 24-hour waiting period for abortions?”
September 18, 2013
Wendy Davis, Opponent of 20-Week Abortion Ban, Will Likely Run for Governor of Texas; Could Help Pro-Life Cause
Napp Nazworth, The Christian Post
“Rose argued that a Davis gubernatorial candidacy would help the pro-life cause by putting more of a spotlight on the issue.”
September 9, 2013
Seeing red over abortion
Lila Rose, The Washington Times
“Ms. Davis and Dr. Karpen — both hail from Texas, and both ardently support late-term abortion — the dismemberment of fully formed babies in the womb. Ms. Davis gets lauded as a champion of women’s rights, a champion of “choice.” Dr. Karpen is ignored.”
September 5, 2013
Washington Post Falsely Claims Ken Cuccinelli Wants to Ban Birth Control
Steven Ertelt, LifeNews
“But Lila Rose of Live Action tells LifeNews it’s the Washington Post that doesn’t have its facts in order. She points out there is a difference between drugs and devices that cause abortions and true contraception that doesn’t snuff out a human life.”
New Abortion Bill Receives Mixed Reactions
Taiu Kunimoto, Annenberg Digital News
“Despite AB 154’s sponsorship from California Women’s Health Alliances, the medical personnel outside of California raised safety concerns based on the bill’s loosening of abortion restrictions.”
September 1, 2013
Calif. bill allows midwives, others to abort fetuses
Cheryl Weizstein, The Washington Times
“It will ‘lower the standard of care for women,’ California Assemblywoman Kristin Olsen, Republican, said Friday.”
August 28, 2013
Oprah’s abnormality
Lila Rose, The Daily Caller
“No one will say that raising a child with special needs is easy – but since when is raising any child easy?”
August 26, 2013
Unclean Hands: Evidence of Planned Parenthood’s Misconduct Continues to Mount
Charlotte Hayes, National Catholic Register
“‘Take 24-year-old Tonya Reaves, killed by a Planned Parenthood clinic in Chicago last summer,’ Rose said. ‘Or Ayanna Byer in Colorado — she changed her mind about having an abortion, but Planned Parenthood staff forced her to undergo the procedure anyway, only to botch it by leaving fetal parts inside her and causing an infection.'”
August 23, 2013
Court rules AZ can’t cut Planned Parenthood from Medicaid Program
Howard Fischer, East Valley Tribune
“Rep. Justin Olson, R-Mesa, contended any funds Planned Parenthood receives for those services underwrite the fixed costs of keeping the doors open. And that, he argued, effectively has state dollars subsidizing abortions.”
August 13, 2013
Seven horrific examples of the real ‘war on women’
Ashe Schow, The Washington Times
“China’s ‘one child’ policy is the most well known [example of gendercide], but it happens in America as well. Pro-life activists with Live Action caught a Planned Parenthood staffer agreeing to provide an abortion to a woman because the baby was a girl.”
Live Action Slams Media For Flinching ‘From The Reality Of Abortion For Decades’
Matt Vespa, RedState
“Rose has said repeatedly that abortion is the ‘most important human rights abuse of our day.'”
August 9, 2013
March On Media Rally: ‘Real War on Women’ is Media Silence on Abortion
Alissa Tabirian, CNS News
“This week, when asked about the case of abortionist and convicted murderer Kermit Gosnell, Davis told a reporter she was unaware of the details of the case. Lila Rose, president of Live Action, found Davis’ revelation ‘shocking.'”
Pro-Lifers Rally Outside ABC News to Demand Fair Coverage of Abortion
Tyler O’Neil, The Christian Post
“As Rose began speaking, around 60 supporters gathered, along with an ABC cameraman and various reporters from other outlets. After a half-hour, the crowd had swelled to well over 130.”
August 8, 2013
Powers: It’s “Democratic ladies” pushing ignorance in the abortion debate
Ed Morrissey, Hot Air
“Lila Rose, Jill Stanek, and Charmaine Yoest called for more honesty in reporting the truth on abortion, calling the media ‘collaborators with the abortion industry.'”
Pro-Lifers Demand Mainstream Media Stop Its Abortion Bias, Censorship
Steven Ertelt, LifeNews
“Lila Rose, the head of Live Action, which coordinated the event, said ‘Enough is enough. It’s time to report the news. It’s time to stop censoring the news.'”
Pro-lifers rally in front of ABC News to condemn abortion ‘censorship’
Caroline May, The Daily Caller
“When asked what they hope to accomplish through all of this, Rose told TheDC they are hoping the media will make a ‘180 degree’ turn in their coverage of abortion matters.”
August 7, 2013
Pro-lifers to march against media censorship of ‘gruesome’ abortion
Jennifer Harper, The Washington Times
“ABC News will have some unexpected visitors with much on their minds Thursday afternoon.”
August 6, 2013
‘Censorship’: Anti-Abortion Activists Prepare to Battle the Mainstream Media
Billy Hallowell, TheBlaze
“Pro-life groups have had enough of what they call a ‘media blackout’ when it comes to the abortion issue. So, they’re coming together to hold a “March on the Media” this Thursday.”
March on Media: Rally Takes Aim at Media Bias During Gosnell Trial
Cortney O’Brien, Townhall
“Although Wendy Davis claims to ‘not know what happened‘ in the Kermit Gosnell case, anyone who was frustrated by the media’s lack of coverage on the abortionist and now convicted murderer earlier this year will have the chance to vent their frustration at Thursday’s March on Media rally in the nation’s capital.”
July 24, 2013
Media welcomes pro-abortion Sen. Wendy Davis to DC; pro-lifers plan march on TV networks
Paul Bedard, The Washington Examiner
“‘Like it or not, the major news networks have huge influence in our country,’ said Lila Rose, president of Live Action, in a statement.”
Live Action Cites MRC In Their March Against the Media
Matt Vespa, NewsBusters
“… inspired by the Media Research Center, the pro-life group Live Action has announced their intention to March on the Media in protest of their continually-slanted coverage on life issues.”
Enough is Enough: Pro-Life Group Starts March on the Media Over Abortion Bias
Steven Ertelt, LifeNews
“Lila Rose of Live Action has had enough and her pro-life group has started a new campaign, March on the Media, to combat the epidemic of pro-abortion bias when it comes to reporting on abortion issues.”
Conservatives Target Abortion Coverage
Ginger Gibson, POLITICO
“Abortion has been in the news a lot, particularly on Capitol Hill last month. Live Action, Inhuman and March on Media sent letters to the networks expressing their unhappiness.”
After Texas: Live Action Continues To Fight For The Unborn
Matt Vespa, RedState
“Late-term abortion is almost universally rejected by the American public, with only 14% supporting such that a procedure should be legal in the third trimester. Is this the area where the pro-life movement can continue to build support for more pro-life legislation?”
July 12, 2013
Battle Lines Drawn as Texas Senate Begins Abortion Bill Debate
Dr. Susan Berry, Breitbart
“After the state house passed the bill on Wednesday, more mayhem broke out among pro-abortion activists.”
Fox News Exposes Abortion Clinic Injuring Woman in Botched Abortion
Steven Ertelt, LifeNews
“The woman had been in contact with pro-life activists prior to her abortion, but continued on with the 2-day procedure.”
The 25 Most Influential Washington Women Under 35
National Journal
“[Lila] Rose personally has more than 23,000 followers on Twitter and 45,000 on Facebook. That attention has caught the eye of legislators, she says, pointing to recent legislative actions around the country to limit abortion.”
July 9, 2013
Abortion Foes Guide States in Pushing New Restrictions
Julie Hirschfeld Davis, Bloomberg
“‘Our job is to bring the controversy to the surface of the horrors happening in abortion clinics across the country, and then those horrors, once they’re brought to light, will have political consequences, sometimes criminal consequences and certainly cultural consequences,’ said Lila Rose, Live Action’s president.”
July 8, 2013
Hailing Satan
Kathryn Jean Lopez, NRO
“That’s probably good advice to a woman who is being advised to deliver her dead baby into a hotel toilet. But this isn’t something the rest of us can afford to look away from.”
July 2, 2013
5 Women, 5 Takes On The Abortion Debate
Peter Karras, Refinery29
“We must always remember that the women who have been told to abort are victims, as their babies were, of a system that pushes quick fixes at the expense of human lives, and of an abortion lobby that commands men and women not to grieve for their lost children.”
Late-Term Abortionist Advocates Toilet Delivery
John Hayward, Human Events
” … and it’s all because abortion clinics don’t want their patients going anywhere near a hospital[.]”
New Mexico abortion doctor caught on audio telling woman to just sit on toilet if 27 week fetus comes out
Daily Mail
“After the informant is told her fetus will be injected with an agent that stops its heart, one of the clinic’s counselors advises the woman to sit on the toilet if the stillbirth begins while she’s away from the clinic.”
July 1, 2013
The Hideous Reality of Late-Term Abortions
Jordan Gonzalez, The American Spectator
“Words don’t begin to describe the absurdity and incompetence of suggesting to a patient that they might have to birth a stillborn baby in a toilet and alone because the doctors can’t ensure a smooth procedure.”
Abortionist Tells Patient Delivering Dead Baby to ‘Sit on Toilet’
Dr. Susan Berry, Breitbart
“Texas state senator Wendy Davis (D) engaged in a filibuster against SB5, a proposed ban on late-term abortions in her state that included proposals that would force abortion clinics to adopt the standards of care of other ambulatory surgery clinics.”
New Mexico Abortion Clinic Lies About Fetal Pain
Matt Vespa, Pajamas Media
“First, they inject a chemical, which stops the baby’s heart. At times, this injection is made in the child’s cranium. It depends on the position of the baby.”
Need to Know: Abortionist tells woman: ‘Sit on toilet’ for abortion, ‘you do not need 911’
LauraIngraham.com
“A clinic counselor told the woman not to look in the toilet, suggesting she put a towel across her legs.”
Room Service Late-Term Abortion in New Mexico: “Just Sit on the Toilet”
AM870: The Answer
“For reference, babies as young as 20 weeks have survived outside of the womb after arriving early.”
Hotel room abortions: Clinic instructs ‘sit on toilet, don’t look down’
Michael Dorstewitz, Biz Pac Review
“The undercover mom is told that because she’s 27 weeks pregnant, the procedure will involve inducing labor after first killing the baby in the womb.”
Abortion Doc Tells Undercover Mom-to-Be: ‘It Is’ Safer to Have an Abortion Than to Deliver Full-Term Baby
Billy Hallowell, TheBlaze
“On a grander scale, intriguing arguments both supporting increased crackdowns on abortion and decrying such proposals are continuously emerging.”
Abortion clinic describes room-service abortions: ‘Just sit on the toilet’ and wait
Caroline May, The Daily Caller
“Southwestern Women’s Options has a branch in Dallas, Texas which performs abortions up to 24 weeks. The clinic in Albuquerque performs abortions up to 28 weeks.”
Abortionist tells woman: ‘Sit on toilet’ for abortion, ‘you do not need 911’
Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner
“The clinic is known for doing late-term abortions.”
New Live Action video shows abortionist misleading on fetal pain
Ed Morrissey, Hot Air
“In that earlier episode, Dr. Carmen Landau likened a late-term abortion injection that kills a baby to ‘a flu shot.'”
Abortionist Abandons Women to Birth Babies in Hotel Room, “Just Sit on the Toilet”
Steven Ertelt, LifeNews
“Live Action has sent letters including the complete New Mexico footage, which is available online, to elected officials in both New Mexico and Texas.”
LIVE ACTION: Room-Service Abortions in New Mexico
Fox Nation
“‘Abortion corporations like Southwestern Women’s Options and Planned Parenthood will say and do anything to “close the deal,”‘ Rose said.”
Sting video: ‘just sit on the toilet’ if baby comes, abortion worker tells 27-week pregnant mom
John Jalsevac, LifeSiteNews
“In the latest video, the abortion workers describe how they will inject the baby’s heart with digoxin to ensure ‘fetal demise,’ and how the mother will eventually pass a ‘mass,’ i.e. her fully formed baby’s body.”
Room Service Late-Term Abortion in New Mexico: “Just Sit on the Toilet”
Katie Pavlich, Townhall
“As the debate over late-term abortion continues in Texas and around the country, inhuman abortion practices are taking place everyday.”
June 17, 2013
#TheyFeelPain, but: White House vows to veto ‘pain-capable’ abortion bill
Twitchy
“While that sounds like a direct call to repeal Obamacare, we’re not counting on it.”
June 16, 2013
Castro funded ‘flu shot’ abortion doctor’s education in Cuba
Caroline May, The Daily Caller
“According to a 2007 report in Reuters, which features pictures of Landau, she was one of eight Americans who graduated from a Cuban medical school that year, after six years of fully funded education from the Castro government.”
June 13, 2013
‘It takes lies’: Lethal abortion injection likened to flu shot in new undercover video from Live Action
Twitchy
“The abortion industry’s callous disregard for life is revealed yet again in the latest undercover video released by Live Action.”
It Depends on What the Meaning of Baby Is
Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review Online
“When we talk about Andrew Cuomo currently campaigning to make sure a woman can get an abortion after 24 weeks, this is whom we are talking about.”
POWERFUL New Live Action Video: What is Human?
The Right Scoop
“Live Action has outdone themselves in busting the lies and half-truths of abortion providers in this video.”
Abortionist: Late Term Abortion Injection Into a Baby is Basically Like a Flu Shot
Katie Pavlich, Townhall
“LiveAction is out with another video exposing the horrific late term abortion industry.”
Pro-life group: Abortionist compares abortion injection to ‘flu shot’
Caroline May, The Daily Caller
“The video was released a day after the House Judiciary Committee approved a ban on abortions after the 20th week of pregnancy.”
‘What do you consider a baby?’
Matt K. Lewis, The Daily Caller
“Live Action is out with yet another video demonstrating the unconscionable inhumanity that exists in America today, and the rationalization and moral relativism posited by seemingly decent people in order to justify it.”
Video: Lethal injection for fetus is “like a flu shot or a vaccine”
Ed Morrissey, Hot Air
“Most people think of abortion as an antiseptic, magical process that simply makes lumps of cells disappear.”
Undercover Video: Abortionist Compares Procedure to Getting a Flu Shot
John Hayward, Human Events
“’What do you consider a “baby”?’ the counselor asks dismissively, summing up much of the abortion debate in a single burst of callous indifference.”
New Mexico Abortionist: Killing A Baby Is Like a ‘Flu Shot’
Matt Vespa, RedState
(also published at Pajamas Media)
“For the past two months, the organization exposed the lurid details that pervades this underreported sector of American medicine.”
New video: Abortion doctor compares death injection to ‘flu shot’
Paul Bedard, The Examiner
“The shocking video provided to Secrets features recordings from Dr. Carmen Landau, of Southwest Women’s Options in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and a counselor employed at the same facility.”
‘Life Begins When the Mother Thinks It Begins’: Abortion Doctors’ Views on Humanity of Unborn Babies Caught on Video
Billy Hallowell, TheBlaze
“‘Well what – how – what do you consider a baby? It’s definitely a fetus,’ the counselor responded, laughing at moments.”
Caught on video: abortionist tells woman 24-week-old fetus ‘doesn’t even look like a baby yet’
John Jalsevac, LifeSiteNews
“The Live Action video also chronicles the story of Toby, a baby born prematurely at 24 weeks – the gestational age of the baby of the Live Action investigator at the time of many of the undercover investigations.“
Abortion Doctor Compares Killing 27-Week-Old Baby to Flu Shot
Steven Ertelt, LifeNews
“The first half of Live Action’s latest video details abortionists’ estimation of the humanity of the unborn child.”
June 7, 2013
Abortion Protest at Phoenix Clinic
Ted Houston, KFYI News
“Also, Rose says the video indicates the clinic will revise the date of conception for late-term abortions in order to make it appear as if the abortion is legal.”
June 6, 2013
Anti-abortion leaders rally for new legislation
Christina Batson, KPHO (CBS 5)
“At this time, these clinics are the only facilities that the state cannot perform any unannounced inspections, according to Live Action.”
Legislature looks to pass bill to allow warrantless inspections of abortion clinics
Howard Fischer, The Explorer
“‘We’ve seen from the Kermit Gosnell trial what abortion clinics will do when they are not properly regulated,’ [State Sen. Nancy Barto] said. ‘I shudder to think that these very crimes may be happening in our own state.”’
Anti-abortion leaders rally in favor of new clinic regulations
Alia Beard Rau, The Arizona Republic
“‘Abortion is killing a baby, it’s murder,’ Marissa said. ‘It’s something that should not be legal. I want to stand up against it and hope we can make a change.'”
Will 2013 Be a Watershed Year for the Pro-Life Movement?
Napp Nazworth, The Christian Post
“None of Live Action’s previous campaigns have received as much attention as its current series, ‘Inhuman: Undercover in America’s Late-Term Abortion Industry.'”
June 5, 2013
VIDEO: Hidden cam exposes abortion clinic protocol lapse
Brahm Resnik, USA Today
“But [the Department of Health Services regulator who oversees licensing for abortion clinics] acknowledged the clinic counselor’s statements do appear to violate state law on paper. So why isn’t she investigating?”
‘Stop the Gosnells’ Coalition Rallies for Government Action Against Abortion Industry
Abby Carr, Charisma News
“The coalition website, StoptheGosnells.com, features an action center where grass-roots activists can contact their elected representatives to demand action.”
Pro-Life Groups Rally to Stop More Kermit Gosnells, Ban Late-Term Abortions
Steven Ertelt, LifeNews
“A new coalition of pro-life groups is banding together to hold state and federal officials accountable for enforcing existing laws that could have been used in Pennsylvania to stop abortion practitioner Kermit Gosnell.”
June 3, 2013
The myth of empowerment through abortion
Lila Rose, The Washington Times
“We started this investigation because infants — as many as 1 in 10 — do survive late-term abortion attempts.”
May 29, 2013
The Womb: The Most Unsafe Place for Girls
Bethany Blankley, The Christian Post
“To date, Live Action Films has produced undercover videos of Planned Parenthood employees explaining how a woman can have a sex-selective abortion within the legal timeframe in Arizona, Hawaii, New York, North Carolina, and Texas.”
May 28, 2013
5 Famous Christians Who Were Homeschooled
Napp Nazworth, Christian Post
“Now 24-years-old, Rose has earned the ire of many pro-choice organizations.”
May 21, 2013
VIDEO: Inhuman: Undercover in America’s Late-Term Abortion Industry
Tony Perkins, FRC
“Join FRC as we promote Live Action’s new video series, exposing America’s late-term abortion industry. Speakers include Tony Perkins, President, Family Research Council; Lila Rose, President, Live Action; Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.); Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.)”
Pro-Life Advocates Rally, Join Lawmakers to Expose Risky Abortionists
Dr. Susan Berry, Breitbart
“Lila Rose, president of Live Action, and Dr. Grace Morrison, Founder of Pray for Germantown, spoke at the rally, attended by over 200 people.”
An epitaph to the Gosnell trial
Andrée Seu Peterson, WORLD
“Gosnell thought he was just killing babies like everybody else was. He thought he was being constitutional and carrying out Roe v. Wade, and playing the role of the women’s health hero.”
Lila Rose: Media Cover-Up on Abortion Dangers to Women
Katie Yoder, Culture and Media Insitute
(also published at NewsBusters)
“Rose continued to say, ‘If the media wants to be fair and balanced and report the truth they need to be reporting stories that affect women in a very personal intimate way with our lives at stake.'”
May 20, 2013
It’s Time To Demand Intellectual Honesty About Abortion
Steve Skojec, CatholicVote
“Saletan goes on to attempt to discredit the “myth” that there are over 1,000 live-births after failed abortions in America every year. He ignores entirely the fact that what Gosnell did to babies outside the womb, abortion doctors across the nation are doing to babies inside the womb every day.”
May 19, 2013
‘Probably being repeated across the country’: Rupert Murdoch addresses Gosnell horror
Twitchy
“It’s the end of the line for such abortionists. Slowly but surely, the media are being forced to shed light on these heinous atrocities.”
May 17, 2013
Tens of thousands march for life in Rome
Francis X. Rocca, The Boston Pilot
“Rome Mayor Gianni Alemanno and Maurizio Gasparri, vice president of Italy’s Senate, were among the participants, along with a number of international delegations.”
“Doctor” Who Killed Woman in Botched 33-Week Abortion to Face Protests
Steven Ertelt, LifeNews
“A letter from seventeen members of the Maryland House Delegates raising concerns about abortion clinic safety led to state officials looking into Morbelli’s death has uncovered the death of yet another woman from a legal abortion in Maryland.”
May 16, 2013
No Criminal Charges in Late-Term Abortion Death
Dr. Susan Berry, Breitbart
“Maryland’s chief medical examiner has declined to release Morbelli’s final autopsy results and the Maryland Mental Hygiene’s Office of Health Care Quality has released no results from an inquiry.”
May 15, 2013
Pope Francis and lying to save life
Jimmy Akin, National Catholic Register
“At issue is the question of whether it is ever okay to lie, particularly when you’re trying to save lives.”
Texas Lt. Gov. Demands Investigation of Abortionist after Video Exposé
Dr. Susan Berry, Breitbart
“In the new video produced by Life Dynamics, a national pro-life organization, the three former employees of abortionist Karpen allege that the Kermit Gosnell ‘house of horrors’ abortion clinic was not the anomaly that the abortion industry says it is.”
‘Your baby will thank you’: Planned Parenthood reaches new low with disgusting ad
Twitchy
“There is no logic here. None. This is depravity in its purest form.”
May 14, 2013
Murdered Thousands, Convicted for Three: The Kermit Gosnell Verdict
Drew Belsky, The American Thinker
“The pro-life movement’s challenge, as Rose says, is to keep the American people focused on how common Gosnell-like practices are in the abortion industry, and on all the unsung victims abortion effects.”
VIDEO: O’Reilly Features Live Action Footage in Carhart Segment
Bill O’Reilly, FOX News
For First Time, All Three Networks Cover Gosnell
Katie Yoder, NewsBusters
“And pro-life group Live Action has released disturbing undercover videos in which abortion providers counsel women about late term abortions and discussing the possibility of live births. The networks haven’t said a word about them.”
May 13, 2013
Live Action, Lying, and the Catechism: Why a Good Catholic Can Support an Undercover Apostolate
Deacon Jim Russell, Creative Minority Report
“So, what is the truth about lying and Live Action? Is all so-called ‘lying’ sinful? Should Catholics shy away from supporting or participating in undercover work? Let’s take a look.”
Kermit Gosnell Found Guilty on Three First-Degree Murder Charges
Dr. Susan Berry, Breitbart
“‘Anti-choice politicians, and their unrelenting efforts to deny women access to safe and legal abortion care, will only drive more women to back-alley butchers like Kermit Gosnell,’ Hogue said.”
Pro-Life Groups Elated After Abortion Doc Gosnell Convicted of Murder
Steven Ertelt, LifeNews
“Even as we celebrate this verdict, we honor and mourn as well those innocents who did not receive ‘their day in court’ – and we must remember that Gosnell is not an outlier within the abortion industry.”
Abortion industry is finally being exposed for what it is
Gregory Rummo, NorthJersey.com
“Our delusion is strong. How we got to the point in this country where we value the lives of animals more than humans is beyond immoral. It is sin. There is blood on our hands.”
May 12, 2013
Gosnell horror fuels fight for abortion laws
Josh Levs, CNN
“Despite the fever pitch of this political battle, the Gosnell case is really a chance for common ground – something the grand jury report noted in 2011.”
May 11, 2013
The Inhuman Abortion Industry: Seeing Is Believing
Eric Metaxas, Christian Post
“But those are just statistics. The video puts them in context.”
Gosnell Murder Trial Spurs House Republicans to Demand States Regulate Abortion Clinics
Melissa Barnhart, Christian Post
“Lila Rose … said she applauds the committee’s actions, and adds that the ‘gruesome practices’ conducted at abortion clinics are ‘standard operating procedure.'”
May 10, 2013
Rome March fro Life Marks 35 Years of Legal Abortion in Italy
Ann Schneible, ZENIT
“Thirty-five years after the legalization of abortion in Italy, thousands of pro-life advocates are expected to gather in Rome this Sunday, March 12, to march on behalf of the unborn.”
May 9, 2013
Interview: Live Action’s Lila Rose on Exposing Late-Term Abortion Industry
Dr. Susan Berry, Breitbart
“In addition to the brutality shown toward babies, Rose emphasizes that the suffering of women seeking abortion is often dismissed by the abortion industry.”
May 8, 2013
US anti-abortion leaders join Rome’s March for Life
Alessandro Speciale, The Washington Post
“Around 15,000 people took part in the 2012 March, according to organizers who predict significantly larger attendance this year.”
Video: LeRoy Carhart Says He’ll Perform ‘Purely Elective’ Abortions on Healthy, Viable Babies in Maryland
John McCormack, The Weekly Standard
“Carhart’s deadline for performing an elective abortion on a healthy, viable baby is apparently a month or so later than he claimed.”
Live Action vs LeRoy Carhart
Mike Spielman, Abort73
“Each Live Action video would be astounding enough as a standalone piece, but taken collectively, the number of lies and concessions they’ve been able to capture on camera is almost unfathomable.”
Live Action Undercover Enters World of Abortionist LeRoy Carhart
Melissa Barnhart, The Christian Post
Lila Rose, founder and president of Live Action, a pro-life group based in Arlington, Va., told The Christian Post on Wednesday that Carhart’s statements revealed in the Live Action undercover video are ‘shocking’ and ‘brutal the way Carhart describes this little victim. The only thing more powerful than his words is that this is what he’s actually doing.’”
Hollywood Gave Standing Ovation to Doc Comparing Abortions to Cooking Meat
Steven Ertelt, LifeNews
“These are the people who control the popular culture. And they think they are compassionate.”
Live Action Undercover Video Exposes Celebrated Abortionist LeRoy Carhart
Dr. Susan Berry, Breitbart
“Though it has since been confirmed that a patient of Carhart, Jennifer Morbelli, died due to complications from the abortion Carhart performed on her, Carhart lies to the undercover investigator and claims that Morbelli died of complications from her pregnancy rather than from the abortion.”
Video: Elective Third-Trimester Abortions with Infamous ‘Doctor’ LeRoy Carhart
Guy Benson, Townhall
“He acknowledges that the child is likely viable outside the womb at that stage of pregnancy (see the image at 5:42), and he knows the abortion would be ‘purely elective.’ Full speed ahead, as long as the ‘termination’ occurs in the correct jurisdiction[.]“
Live Action Captures Familiar Face in Latest Investigative Video
Matt Vespa, RedState
“Also, when Morbelli was bleeding, Carhart was unreachable for emergency care since he skipped town. This was a tragic replay of what happened in 2005, where Carhart performed a late-term abortion on Christin Gilbert, who also died in the process. She was only nineteen.”
Twisted imagery
Daniel James Devine, WORLD
“Meat, pickaxes, trains: A new undercover video and recording is a glimpse inside a late-term abortionist’s callous imagination.”
Late-term abortionist compares fetus to ‘meat in a Crock-Pot’
Caroline May, The Daily Caller
“In the video, Carhart explains to the woman that abortions for women are ‘not at all’ uncommon after 26 weeks, and says that if the baby were to be born at that age there would be a 50-50 chance of survival.”
Video [fixed]: Late-term abortionist says “It’s like putting meat in a crock pot”
Ed Morrissey, Hot Air
“Carhart has been featured in pro-abortion literature and film and appeared on television — or at least he used to make those appearances, until a woman died after one of his abortions earlier this year.”
Late-Term Abortion Doc Caught Comparing Unborn Baby to “Meat in a Crock Pot”
Steven Ertelt, LifeNews
“The latest investigative video release captures late-term abortionist LeRoy Carhart on tape discussing the grisly details of the abortion procedure and misleading a pregnant woman regarding the dangers of abortion.”
May 7, 2013
Antiabortion group releases Md. abortion provider’s comments on woman’s death
Lena H. Sun, The Washington Post
“They appear to be his first reported comments on the New York woman’s death Feb. 7 at Shady Grove Adventist Hospital in Rockville after he performed an abortion days earlier at the Germantown clinic.”
May 6, 2013
Eight people Planned Parenthood hates the most
Matthew Archbold, LifeSiteNews
“Lila Rose and the Live Action posse allow Planned Parenthood employees to reveal themselves in their own horrible words. They’ve exposed Planned Parenthood and other abortion clinics so badly that even the New York Times and the Washington Post were recently forced to cover it.”
AUDIO: The Ed Morrissey Show: Kevin McCullough, Lila Rose
Ed Morrissey, Hot Air
Iowa View: Gosnell trial exposes myths of abortion
Tom Quiner, Des Moines Register
“And folks are waking up to the fact that this kind of savagery is taking place at the hands of human abortionists elsewhere, thanks to the latest expose from Live Action Films.”
May 4, 2013
Philly abortion murder trial has national impact
David Crary & Michael Rubinkam, The Associated Press
“They also contend there’s little practical difference between what Gosnell is charged with, killing four babies who were born alive, and a late-term abortion.”
VIDEO: Lila Rose talks with Mike Huckabee about Live Action’s Inhuman investigation
Mike Huckabee, FOX News AUDIO: Undercover investigation into late-term abortion facilities
Nick Eicher & Joseph Slife, WORLD
May 2, 2013
New Live Action video: “We will not resuscitate” a born-alive baby after abortion
Ed Morrissey, Hot Air
“That sounds like what families do when loved ones pass away. Do clinics do this with the products of liposuction? Discarded appendixes? Removed gallbladders?“
Baby Killing: Pro-Life Leaders Demand Media Accountability
Katie Yoder, MRCTV
“Event organizer Maggen Elizabeth Stone, Live Action Youth Outreach Coordinator and Assistant to the President, counted 120 participants in the protest: ‘At my last count, there were over 120 people gathered with passers-by continuing to pause and join the crowd.’”
Live Action: AZ Abortionist Tells Woman To Not ‘Torture’ Herself About Baby’s Appearance
Matt Vespa, RedState
“The video gets more disturbing as Linda, a counselor at the clinic, tells the investigator that they could abort her child without the digoxin injection. Yet, that would take longer, and the baby could be moving as they’re extracting it from the womb.”
Abortion Doctor: We Induce Death
Todd Starnes, FOX News
“An abortion doctor said they ‘induce a demise – an intrauterine demise – um, death.’”
Inside the late-term abortion industry
Tim Carney, The Examiner
“That looks like a baby. And it’s viable. That’s why after 24 weeks in Arizona, it’s illegal to abort the baby.”
When Laughter Ensues in an Abortion Clinic
Kathryn Jean Lopez, NRO
“We don’t talk about it this way, but the “right” to an abortion is a mother’s right to a dead baby if she voices a desire to ‘terminate.’”
Shock Video: “We Will Not Resuscitate” Baby Born Alive After Failed Abortion
Steven Ertelt, LifeNews
“Now, Live Action released a third undercover video exposing Phoenix, Arizona-based late-term abortion doctor Laura Mercer and an abortion center counselor who would leave a newborn, struggling for life after a failed abortion, to die.”
New Undercover Abortion Clinic Video Sparks Pro-Life Furor: ‘They Will Not Resuscitate’
Billy Hallowell, TheBlaze
“Of particular note, the medical professional admits that some children do come out alive during the procedure.”
Anti-abortion group releases new secretly recorded video
Shannon Travis, CNN
“CNN has reached out to the various local, state and federal health and law enforcement agencies to determine if any will investigate Live Action’s claims against the Phoenix medical group. CNN has not yet received a response.”
Protesting Infanticide in Foggy Bottom
Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review Online
“The first floor of the glass-fronted office building has ‘relaxed’ in white lettering. It’s a spa. Tanning on the first floor. Death on the fourth.”
Doctor willing to abandon baby from failed abortion sparks protest
Adelaide Mena, Catholic News Agency
“Rose warned that ‘Gosnell is not an outlier,’ but that Live Action has documented a similar willingness to kill or fail to care for infants who survive abortions in clinics throughout the country.”
Prosecute Santangelo: Live Action Holds Rally Outside Abortionist’s Office
Matt Vespa, RedState
“After the rally, Rose said these developments should force us to reevaluate the justifications for abortion, especially the misconception that abortion ‘empowers’ women.”
May 1, 2013
Pro-life activists hold a rally in front of the Washington, D.C., abortion center recently exposed in a video
J.C. Derrick, WORLD
“Abortionist Cesare Santangelo’s Washington Surgi-Clinic sits amid the sprawling campus of George Washington University, a few blocks away from the White House.”
Group behind video rallies outside D.C. abortion doctor’s office
John Aaron, WTOP
“Rose also said she was in talks with the management of the building and hoped the doctor would be evicted.”
Abortion clinic video makers call for government investigation
Cheryl Wetzstein, The Washington Times
“‘When I hear things like, “flush it down the toilet” or “leave it to die,” it horrifies me,’ Melissa Ohden, who as a newborn survived a saline-infusion abortion 35 years ago, told the crowd of pro-life activists and onlookers.”
‘Some nerve’: Tamara Holder attacks Lila Rose, gets schooled by Katie Pavlich
Twitchy
“Stomp that foot, Tamara!”
Live Action Holds Protest-Conference in D.C.
Dalton Vogler, Townhall
“During the protest, anti-abortion media group Live Action held a press conference featuring key speakers in the fight against Planned Parenthood.”
‘Stop the Killing’ Infanticide Protest Draws Crowd to DC Abortionist’s Office
Katie Yoder, MRC TV
“The rally was held in response to a Live Action investigative video where a 24-week pregnant female actress asked Santangelo if a baby has ever survived an abortion.”
Anti-abortion group warns it has more controversial videos
Shannon Travis, CNN
“‘We’re not saying we have a film or footage of a child crying in a sink. Or a child left on a table who’s still breathing,’ [Rose] said. ‘Our investigators didn’t go in there to peek through the trash cans. We don’t have that information.” That, Rose said, would be for investigators to find out.’”
April 30, 2013
VIDEO: Live Action ‘Inhuman’ investigation on CNN
Shannon Travis, CNN
VIDEO: NBC discusses “Inhuman” release, Gosnell trial
KETK VIDEO: Lila Rose discusses “Inhuman” investigation with Sean Hannity
Sean Hannity, FOX News Abortionist Complains to Maddow That Pro-Lifers Have Worsened ‘Stigma’ Toward Abortion
Jack Coleman, Newsbusters
“Those working in abortion mills, wondering why they don’t get more respect, might do well to follow Shorris’s advice.”
Video: “We’ve forgotten what abortion really is”
Ed Morrissey, Hot Air
“The same people seem awfully silent, in every sense of that term, when it comes to the butchers of the abortion industry and the public officials who won’t lift a finger to put them out of business.”
Bozell Column: Skipping ‘Controversial Stings’ of the Left
Brent Bozell, NewsBusters
“All on tape. This callous murder plot sounds all too familiar to those following the just-concluded trial of Dr. Kermit Gosnell in Philadelphia. It is the culture of death on display, pure evil.”
Videos show Gosnell practices in other abortion clinics
Carl Bunderson, Catholic News Agency
“Dr. Emily’s boasts on its website that it offers ‘gentle abortion’ which is ‘streamlined for your convenience,’ and that for abortions performed between 20 and 24 weeks, ‘anesthesia guarantees that patients have no pain and no recollection of the procedure.’”
April 29, 2013
Videos, court fight fuel surging debate on abortion
Cheryl Wetzstein, The Washington Times
“Ms. Rose and other pro-life leaders are planning a rally Wednesday at the D.C. abortion clinic featured in one of the undercover videos, while in Congress, a bill has been introduced that would ban most abortions after 20 weeks in the District.”
Pro-Life Sting-Video Maven Lila Rose Is Back
Kat Stoeffel, NYMag
“There’s no sugarcoating the logistics of late-term abortions, even the safe, legal and rare ones.”
VIDEO: “Inhuman” investigation on “Special Report with Bret Baier”
Bret Baier, FOX News Undercover Video Exposes More Late-Term Abortion Horrors
John Hayward, Human Events
“She’s very insistent upon use of the word ‘terminate’ instead of ‘kill’ to describe what happens to the target of a legal late-term abortion.”
New Pro-Life Sting Videos of Abortion Clinics
David Weigel, Slate
“The cancer patient analogy is exactly wrong; that, I guess, is why Santangelo now says he was “tripped up,” and that he was trying to reassure a scared patient.”
WashPost Actually Covers Live Action Video Where Abortionist Admits He’d Let Baby Die on Table
Ken Shepherd, NewsBusters
“Every now and then a liberal newspaper can pleasantly surprise us. Today is one of those days, although as I explain later, our praise is qualified.”
Live Action, Anti-Abortion Group, Releases Undercover Videos from Abortion Clinics
Hunter Stuart, The Huffington Post
“The director of the Bronx facility, Marjana Banzil, also told the Post that she hadn’t watched the video covertly shot at her clinic.”
VIDEO: Anti-abortion group secretly records Dr. Cesare Santangelo
Tom Roussey, ABC7VIDEO: Live Action President Lila Rose on “The O’Reilly Factor”
Bill O’Reilly, FOX NewsUPDATE: Abortion Doc Featured In New Video Calls Lila Rose, Live Action ‘Terrorists’
Matt Vespa, RedState
“Santangelo is doing some serious PR work.”
Soulless Slate’s Saletan: Worse than infanticide? Exposing it, snitches
Twitchy
“To the vile and soulless Saletan, the videos exposing those horrifying acts are worse than the acts themselves.”
Abortionist on LiveAction sting: “I really consider them terrorists”
Allahpundit, Hot Air
“By ‘them,’ he means the Live Action people who exposed him, not doctors who’d leave a live-born infant to die on a table because that’s what mommy wants.”
Second Live Action video: Abortion survivors like DNR patients
Ed Morrissey, Hot Air
“The difference, of course, is that patients usually choose the ‘Do not resuscitate’ order for themselves.”
Antiabortion group releases videos of clinic workers discussing live births
Sandhya Somashekhar & Lena H. Sun, The Washington Post
(also published at The Portland Press Herald and The Huffington Post)
“He said he has not watched the video because ‘I don’t like to feed into these people. I really consider them terrorists.’”
December 10, 2013
Study IDs reasons for late-term abortions
Cheryl Wetzstein, The Washington Times
“Live Action, the pro-life activist group led by Lila Rose, sought to highlight the financial aspects of the procedure.”
November 18, 2013
What’s at stake in Albuquerque’s late-term abortion referendum
Lila Rose, The Daily Caller
“Ironic that you get more candor from abortion proponents behind the walls of an abortion clinic than from Planned Parenthood spokespeople rigidly insisting on ‘fetus.'”
Live Action: Abortion Industry Built On ‘Profits From Pain’
Matt Vespa, Pajamas Media
“Now, Live Action is going after the profits the abortion industry reaps from these desperate women.”
November 15, 2013
Pro-Life Organizations Join Forces in Albuquerque to Pass 20-Week Abortion Ban
Dr. Susan Berry, Breitbart
“Currently, abortions are legal in Albuquerque any time up until the time of birth.”
November 14, 2013
The Abortion Fight in Albuquerque
Cortney O’Brien, Townhall
“To encourage citizens to check YES next to the ordinance on the ballot, pro-life organizations such as the Susan B. Anthony List and Live Action have been on the ground[.]”
Video: Abortion clinic kills through baby’s head, says no pain felt, price $8,000
Paul Bedard, The Washington Examiner
“Later, when the Live Action investigator shows up at the clinic, it is explained that the fetus will be injected either in its bottom or skull.”
November 7, 2013
Late Term Abortion Battle to Start on Capitol Hill
Katie Pavlich, Townhall
“[T]he Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act banning abortions after five months of pregnancy, something the vast majority of women in America support.”
November 4, 2013
Dire warning to abortion clinic workers: ‘Don’t let your job put you in prison’
Cheryl Wetzstein, The Washington Times
“The abortion industry is ‘united,’ Ms. Rose said. If there’s a problem in one clinic, ‘you’re going to find it in another one.’”
October 30, 2013
What are Kathleen Sebelius’s priorities?
Drew Belsky, The Daily Caller
“Put simply, Kathleen Sebelius, who styles herself a Catholic, wants to force nuns to pay for abortions.”
October 28, 2013
Federal judge blocks key parts of Tex. antiabortion law Monday
Juliet Eilperin, The Washington Post
“Lila Rose, president of the anti-abortion group Live Action said the ruling represented the latest example of an ‘activist judge’ barring ‘an elected state legislature from enforcing life-saving provisions for women. This contempt for women’s safety among our judiciary has become a devastating trend.'”
October 23, 2013
Obama’s Double Standard on Saving Children: Sarin Gas vs. Abortion
Lila Rose, TheBlaze
“The president’s ‘red line’ was revealed as a joke – a source of outright laughter in the House of Representatives. But at least he put up a show of defending innocent children in Syria.”
October 14, 2013
Lila Rose: ‘I Would Leave the Republican Party’ If It Dropped Social Issues
Tyler O’Neil, The Christian Post
“Rose argued that there is no fundamental reason why Democrats should support abortion, but added that ‘it’s really hard’ because most Democrats do not vote or legislate pro-life.”
What International Gendercide Can Teach America About Abortion
Paul Cooper, PJM
“Planned Parenthood says they don’t agree with sex-selective abortions officially and fired the employee in that Live Action video, yet they promise they won’t judge women who get them and will be happy to provide the service.”
September 25, 2013
Are tattoos more risky than abortions?
Sarah Padbury, WORLD Magazine
“How many women would have been spared a regret-filled morning-after if Washington had a 24-hour waiting period for abortions?”
September 18, 2013
Wendy Davis, Opponent of 20-Week Abortion Ban, Will Likely Run for Governor of Texas; Could Help Pro-Life Cause
Napp Nazworth, The Christian Post
“Rose argued that a Davis gubernatorial candidacy would help the pro-life cause by putting more of a spotlight on the issue.”
September 9, 2013
Seeing red over abortion
Lila Rose, The Washington Times
“Ms. Davis and Dr. Karpen — both hail from Texas, and both ardently support late-term abortion — the dismemberment of fully formed babies in the womb. Ms. Davis gets lauded as a champion of women’s rights, a champion of “choice.” Dr. Karpen is ignored.”
September 5, 2013
Washington Post Falsely Claims Ken Cuccinelli Wants to Ban Birth Control
Steven Ertelt, LifeNews
“But Lila Rose of Live Action tells LifeNews it’s the Washington Post that doesn’t have its facts in order. She points out there is a difference between drugs and devices that cause abortions and true contraception that doesn’t snuff out a human life.”
New Abortion Bill Receives Mixed Reactions
Taiu Kunimoto, Annenberg Digital News
“Despite AB 154’s sponsorship from California Women’s Health Alliances, the medical personnel outside of California raised safety concerns based on the bill’s loosening of abortion restrictions.”
September 1, 2013
Calif. bill allows midwives, others to abort fetuses
Cheryl Weizstein, The Washington Times
“It will ‘lower the standard of care for women,’ California Assemblywoman Kristin Olsen, Republican, said Friday.”
August 28, 2013
Oprah’s abnormality
Lila Rose, The Daily Caller
“No one will say that raising a child with special needs is easy – but since when is raising any child easy?”
August 26, 2013
Unclean Hands: Evidence of Planned Parenthood’s Misconduct Continues to Mount
Charlotte Hayes, National Catholic Register
“‘Take 24-year-old Tonya Reaves, killed by a Planned Parenthood clinic in Chicago last summer,’ Rose said. ‘Or Ayanna Byer in Colorado — she changed her mind about having an abortion, but Planned Parenthood staff forced her to undergo the procedure anyway, only to botch it by leaving fetal parts inside her and causing an infection.'”
August 23, 2013
Court rules AZ can’t cut Planned Parenthood from Medicaid Program
Howard Fischer, East Valley Tribune
“Rep. Justin Olson, R-Mesa, contended any funds Planned Parenthood receives for those services underwrite the fixed costs of keeping the doors open. And that, he argued, effectively has state dollars subsidizing abortions.”
August 13, 2013
Seven horrific examples of the real ‘war on women’
Ashe Schow, The Washington Times
“China’s ‘one child’ policy is the most well known [example of gendercide], but it happens in America as well. Pro-life activists with Live Action caught a Planned Parenthood staffer agreeing to provide an abortion to a woman because the baby was a girl.”
Live Action Slams Media For Flinching ‘From The Reality Of Abortion For Decades’
Matt Vespa, RedState
“Rose has said repeatedly that abortion is the ‘most important human rights abuse of our day.'”
August 9, 2013
March On Media Rally: ‘Real War on Women’ is Media Silence on Abortion
Alissa Tabirian, CNS News
“This week, when asked about the case of abortionist and convicted murderer Kermit Gosnell, Davis told a reporter she was unaware of the details of the case. Lila Rose, president of Live Action, found Davis’ revelation ‘shocking.'”
Pro-Lifers Rally Outside ABC News to Demand Fair Coverage of Abortion
Tyler O’Neil, The Christian Post
“As Rose began speaking, around 60 supporters gathered, along with an ABC cameraman and various reporters from other outlets. After a half-hour, the crowd had swelled to well over 130.”
August 8, 2013
Powers: It’s “Democratic ladies” pushing ignorance in the abortion debate
Ed Morrissey, Hot Air
“Lila Rose, Jill Stanek, and Charmaine Yoest called for more honesty in reporting the truth on abortion, calling the media ‘collaborators with the abortion industry.'”
Pro-Lifers Demand Mainstream Media Stop Its Abortion Bias, Censorship
Steven Ertelt, LifeNews
“Lila Rose, the head of Live Action, which coordinated the event, said ‘Enough is enough. It’s time to report the news. It’s time to stop censoring the news.'”
Pro-lifers rally in front of ABC News to condemn abortion ‘censorship’
Caroline May, The Daily Caller
“When asked what they hope to accomplish through all of this, Rose told TheDC they are hoping the media will make a ‘180 degree’ turn in their coverage of abortion matters.”
August 7, 2013
Pro-lifers to march against media censorship of ‘gruesome’ abortion
Jennifer Harper, The Washington Times
“ABC News will have some unexpected visitors with much on their minds Thursday afternoon.”
August 6, 2013
‘Censorship’: Anti-Abortion Activists Prepare to Battle the Mainstream Media
Billy Hallowell, TheBlaze
“Pro-life groups have had enough of what they call a ‘media blackout’ when it comes to the abortion issue. So, they’re coming together to hold a “March on the Media” this Thursday.”
March on Media: Rally Takes Aim at Media Bias During Gosnell Trial
Cortney O’Brien, Townhall
“Although Wendy Davis claims to ‘not know what happened‘ in the Kermit Gosnell case, anyone who was frustrated by the media’s lack of coverage on the abortionist and now convicted murderer earlier this year will have the chance to vent their frustration at Thursday’s March on Media rally in the nation’s capital.”
July 24, 2013
Media welcomes pro-abortion Sen. Wendy Davis to DC; pro-lifers plan march on TV networks
Paul Bedard, The Washington Examiner
“‘Like it or not, the major news networks have huge influence in our country,’ said Lila Rose, president of Live Action, in a statement.”
Live Action Cites MRC In Their March Against the Media
Matt Vespa, NewsBusters
“… inspired by the Media Research Center, the pro-life group Live Action has announced their intention to March on the Media in protest of their continually-slanted coverage on life issues.”
Enough is Enough: Pro-Life Group Starts March on the Media Over Abortion Bias
Steven Ertelt, LifeNews
“Lila Rose of Live Action has had enough and her pro-life group has started a new campaign, March on the Media, to combat the epidemic of pro-abortion bias when it comes to reporting on abortion issues.”
Conservatives Target Abortion Coverage
Ginger Gibson, POLITICO
“Abortion has been in the news a lot, particularly on Capitol Hill last month. Live Action, Inhuman and March on Media sent letters to the networks expressing their unhappiness.”
After Texas: Live Action Continues To Fight For The Unborn
Matt Vespa, RedState
“Late-term abortion is almost universally rejected by the American public, with only 14% supporting such that a procedure should be legal in the third trimester. Is this the area where the pro-life movement can continue to build support for more pro-life legislation?”
July 12, 2013
Battle Lines Drawn as Texas Senate Begins Abortion Bill Debate
Dr. Susan Berry, Breitbart
“After the state house passed the bill on Wednesday, more mayhem broke out among pro-abortion activists.”
Fox News Exposes Abortion Clinic Injuring Woman in Botched Abortion
Steven Ertelt, LifeNews
“The woman had been in contact with pro-life activists prior to her abortion, but continued on with the 2-day procedure.”
The 25 Most Influential Washington Women Under 35
National Journal
“[Lila] Rose personally has more than 23,000 followers on Twitter and 45,000 on Facebook. That attention has caught the eye of legislators, she says, pointing to recent legislative actions around the country to limit abortion.”
July 9, 2013
Abortion Foes Guide States in Pushing New Restrictions
Julie Hirschfeld Davis, Bloomberg
“‘Our job is to bring the controversy to the surface of the horrors happening in abortion clinics across the country, and then those horrors, once they’re brought to light, will have political consequences, sometimes criminal consequences and certainly cultural consequences,’ said Lila Rose, Live Action’s president.”
July 8, 2013
Hailing Satan
Kathryn Jean Lopez, NRO
“That’s probably good advice to a woman who is being advised to deliver her dead baby into a hotel toilet. But this isn’t something the rest of us can afford to look away from.”
July 2, 2013
Late-Term Abortionist Advocates Toilet Delivery
John Hayward, Human Events
” … and it’s all because abortion clinics don’t want their patients going anywhere near a hospital[.]”
New Mexico abortion doctor caught on audio telling woman to just sit on toilet if 27 week fetus comes out
Daily Mail
“After the informant is told her fetus will be injected with an agent that stops its heart, one of the clinic’s counselors advises the woman to sit on the toilet if the stillbirth begins while she’s away from the clinic.”
July 1, 2013
The Hideous Reality of Late-Term Abortions
Jordan Gonzalez, The American Spectator
“Words don’t begin to describe the absurdity and incompetence of suggesting to a patient that they might have to birth a stillborn baby in a toilet and alone because the doctors can’t ensure a smooth procedure.”
Abortionist Tells Patient Delivering Dead Baby to ‘Sit on Toilet’
Dr. Susan Berry, Breitbart
“Texas state senator Wendy Davis (D) engaged in a filibuster against SB5, a proposed ban on late-term abortions in her state that included proposals that would force abortion clinics to adopt the standards of care of other ambulatory surgery clinics.”
New Mexico Abortion Clinic Lies About Fetal Pain
Matt Vespa, Pajamas Media
“First, they inject a chemical, which stops the baby’s heart. At times, this injection is made in the child’s cranium. It depends on the position of the baby.”
Need to Know: Abortionist tells woman: ‘Sit on toilet’ for abortion, ‘you do not need 911’
LauraIngraham.com
“A clinic counselor told the woman not to look in the toilet, suggesting she put a towel across her legs.”
Room Service Late-Term Abortion in New Mexico: “Just Sit on the Toilet”
AM870: The Answer
“For reference, babies as young as 20 weeks have survived outside of the womb after arriving early.”
Hotel room abortions: Clinic instructs ‘sit on toilet, don’t look down’
Michael Dorstewitz, Biz Pac Review
“The undercover mom is told that because she’s 27 weeks pregnant, the procedure will involve inducing labor after first killing the baby in the womb.”
Abortion Doc Tells Undercover Mom-to-Be: ‘It Is’ Safer to Have an Abortion Than to Deliver Full-Term Baby
Billy Hallowell, TheBlaze
“On a grander scale, intriguing arguments both supporting increased crackdowns on abortion and decrying such proposals are continuously emerging.”
Abortion clinic describes room-service abortions: ‘Just sit on the toilet’ and wait
Caroline May, The Daily Caller
“Southwestern Women’s Options has a branch in Dallas, Texas which performs abortions up to 24 weeks. The clinic in Albuquerque performs abortions up to 28 weeks.”
Abortionist tells woman: ‘Sit on toilet’ for abortion, ‘you do not need 911’
Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner
“The clinic is known for doing late-term abortions.”
New Live Action video shows abortionist misleading on fetal pain
Ed Morrissey, Hot Air
“In that earlier episode, Dr. Carmen Landau likened a late-term abortion injection that kills a baby to ‘a flu shot.'”
Abortionist Abandons Women to Birth Babies in Hotel Room, “Just Sit on the Toilet”
Steven Ertelt, LifeNews
“Live Action has sent letters including the complete New Mexico footage, which is available online, to elected officials in both New Mexico and Texas.”
LIVE ACTION: Room-Service Abortions in New Mexico
Fox Nation
“‘Abortion corporations like Southwestern Women’s Options and Planned Parenthood will say and do anything to “close the deal,”‘ Rose said.”
Sting video: ‘just sit on the toilet’ if baby comes, abortion worker tells 27-week pregnant mom
John Jalsevac, LifeSiteNews
“In the latest video, the abortion workers describe how they will inject the baby’s heart with digoxin to ensure ‘fetal demise,’ and how the mother will eventually pass a ‘mass,’ i.e. her fully formed baby’s body.”
Room Service Late-Term Abortion in New Mexico: “Just Sit on the Toilet”
Katie Pavlich, Townhall
“As the debate over late-term abortion continues in Texas and around the country, inhuman abortion practices are taking place everyday.”
June 17, 2013
#TheyFeelPain, but: White House vows to veto ‘pain-capable’ abortion bill
Twitchy
“While that sounds like a direct call to repeal Obamacare, we’re not counting on it.”
June 16, 2013
Castro funded ‘flu shot’ abortion doctor’s education in Cuba
Caroline May, The Daily Caller
“According to a 2007 report in Reuters, which features pictures of Landau, she was one of eight Americans who graduated from a Cuban medical school that year, after six years of fully funded education from the Castro government.”
June 13, 2013
‘It takes lies’: Lethal abortion injection likened to flu shot in new undercover video from Live Action
Twitchy
“The abortion industry’s callous disregard for life is revealed yet again in the latest undercover video released by Live Action.”
It Depends on What the Meaning of Baby Is
Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review Online
“When we talk about Andrew Cuomo currently campaigning to make sure a woman can get an abortion after 24 weeks, this is whom we are talking about.”
POWERFUL New Live Action Video: What is Human?
The Right Scoop
“Live Action has outdone themselves in busting the lies and half-truths of abortion providers in this video.”
Abortionist: Late Term Abortion Injection Into a Baby is Basically Like a Flu Shot
Katie Pavlich, Townhall
“LiveAction is out with another video exposing the horrific late term abortion industry.”
Pro-life group: Abortionist compares abortion injection to ‘flu shot’
Caroline May, The Daily Caller
“The video was released a day after the House Judiciary Committee approved a ban on abortions after the 20th week of pregnancy.”
‘What do you consider a baby?’
Matt K. Lewis, The Daily Caller
“Live Action is out with yet another video demonstrating the unconscionable inhumanity that exists in America today, and the rationalization and moral relativism posited by seemingly decent people in order to justify it.”
Video: Lethal injection for fetus is “like a flu shot or a vaccine”
Ed Morrissey, Hot Air
“Most people think of abortion as an antiseptic, magical process that simply makes lumps of cells disappear.”
Undercover Video: Abortionist Compares Procedure to Getting a Flu Shot
John Hayward, Human Events
“’What do you consider a “baby”?’ the counselor asks dismissively, summing up much of the abortion debate in a single burst of callous indifference.”
New Mexico Abortionist: Killing A Baby Is Like a ‘Flu Shot’
Matt Vespa, RedState
(also published at Pajamas Media)
“For the past two months, the organization exposed the lurid details that pervades this underreported sector of American medicine.”
New video: Abortion doctor compares death injection to ‘flu shot’
Paul Bedard, The Examiner
“The shocking video provided to Secrets features recordings from Dr. Carmen Landau, of Southwest Women’s Options in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and a counselor employed at the same facility.”
‘Life Begins When the Mother Thinks It Begins’: Abortion Doctors’ Views on Humanity of Unborn Babies Caught on Video
Billy Hallowell, TheBlaze
“‘Well what – how – what do you consider a baby? It’s definitely a fetus,’ the counselor responded, laughing at moments.”
Caught on video: abortionist tells woman 24-week-old fetus ‘doesn’t even look like a baby yet’
John Jalsevac, LifeSiteNews
“The Live Action video also chronicles the story of Toby, a baby born prematurely at 24 weeks – the gestational age of the baby of the Live Action investigator at the time of many of the undercover investigations.“
Abortion Doctor Compares Killing 27-Week-Old Baby to Flu Shot
Steven Ertelt, LifeNews
“The first half of Live Action’s latest video details abortionists’ estimation of the humanity of the unborn child.”
June 7, 2013
Abortion Protest at Phoenix Clinic
Ted Houston, KFYI News
“Also, Rose says the video indicates the clinic will revise the date of conception for late-term abortions in order to make it appear as if the abortion is legal.”
June 6, 2013
Anti-abortion leaders rally for new legislation
Christina Batson, KPHO (CBS 5)
“At this time, these clinics are the only facilities that the state cannot perform any unannounced inspections, according to Live Action.”
Legislature looks to pass bill to allow warrantless inspections of abortion clinics
Howard Fischer, The Explorer
“‘We’ve seen from the Kermit Gosnell trial what abortion clinics will do when they are not properly regulated,’ [State Sen. Nancy Barto] said. ‘I shudder to think that these very crimes may be happening in our own state.”’
Anti-abortion leaders rally in favor of new clinic regulations
Alia Beard Rau, The Arizona Republic
“‘Abortion is killing a baby, it’s murder,’ Marissa said. ‘It’s something that should not be legal. I want to stand up against it and hope we can make a change.'”
Will 2013 Be a Watershed Year for the Pro-Life Movement?
Napp Nazworth, The Christian Post
“None of Live Action’s previous campaigns have received as much attention as its current series, ‘Inhuman: Undercover in America’s Late-Term Abortion Industry.'”
June 5, 2013
VIDEO: Hidden cam exposes abortion clinic protocol lapse
Brahm Resnik, USA Today
“But [the Department of Health Services regulator who oversees licensing for abortion clinics] acknowledged the clinic counselor’s statements do appear to violate state law on paper. So why isn’t she investigating?”
‘Stop the Gosnells’ Coalition Rallies for Government Action Against Abortion Industry
Abby Carr, Charisma News
“The coalition website, StoptheGosnells.com, features an action center where grass-roots activists can contact their elected representatives to demand action.”
Pro-Life Groups Rally to Stop More Kermit Gosnells, Ban Late-Term Abortions
Steven Ertelt, LifeNews
“A new coalition of pro-life groups is banding together to hold state and federal officials accountable for enforcing existing laws that could have been used in Pennsylvania to stop abortion practitioner Kermit Gosnell.”
June 3, 2013
The myth of empowerment through abortion
Lila Rose, The Washington Times
“We started this investigation because infants — as many as 1 in 10 — do survive late-term abortion attempts.”
May 29, 2013
The Womb: The Most Unsafe Place for Girls
Bethany Blankley, The Christian Post
“To date, Live Action Films has produced undercover videos of Planned Parenthood employees explaining how a woman can have a sex-selective abortion within the legal timeframe in Arizona, Hawaii, New York, North Carolina, and Texas.”
May 28, 2013
5 Famous Christians Who Were Homeschooled
Napp Nazworth, Christian Post
“Now 24-years-old, Rose has earned the ire of many pro-choice organizations.”
May 21, 2013
VIDEO: Inhuman: Undercover in America’s Late-Term Abortion Industry
Tony Perkins, FRC
“Join FRC as we promote Live Action’s new video series, exposing America’s late-term abortion industry. Speakers include Tony Perkins, President, Family Research Council; Lila Rose, President, Live Action; Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.); Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.)”
Pro-Life Advocates Rally, Join Lawmakers to Expose Risky Abortionists
Dr. Susan Berry, Breitbart
“Lila Rose, president of Live Action, and Dr. Grace Morrison, Founder of Pray for Germantown, spoke at the rally, attended by over 200 people.”
An epitaph to the Gosnell trial
Andrée Seu Peterson, WORLD
“Gosnell thought he was just killing babies like everybody else was. He thought he was being constitutional and carrying out Roe v. Wade, and playing the role of the women’s health hero.”
Lila Rose: Media Cover-Up on Abortion Dangers to Women
Katie Yoder, Culture and Media Insitute
(also published at NewsBusters)
“Rose continued to say, ‘If the media wants to be fair and balanced and report the truth they need to be reporting stories that affect women in a very personal intimate way with our lives at stake.'”
May 20, 2013
It’s Time To Demand Intellectual Honesty About Abortion
Steve Skojec, CatholicVote
“Saletan goes on to attempt to discredit the “myth” that there are over 1,000 live-births after failed abortions in America every year. He ignores entirely the fact that what Gosnell did to babies outside the womb, abortion doctors across the nation are doing to babies inside the womb every day.”
May 19, 2013
‘Probably being repeated across the country’: Rupert Murdoch addresses Gosnell horror
Twitchy
“It’s the end of the line for such abortionists. Slowly but surely, the media are being forced to shed light on these heinous atrocities.”
May 17, 2013
Tens of thousands march for life in Rome
Francis X. Rocca, The Boston Pilot
“Rome Mayor Gianni Alemanno and Maurizio Gasparri, vice president of Italy’s Senate, were among the participants, along with a number of international delegations.”
“Doctor” Who Killed Woman in Botched 33-Week Abortion to Face Protests
Steven Ertelt, LifeNews
“A letter from seventeen members of the Maryland House Delegates raising concerns about abortion clinic safety led to state officials looking into Morbelli’s death has uncovered the death of yet another woman from a legal abortion in Maryland.”
May 16, 2013
No Criminal Charges in Late-Term Abortion Death
Dr. Susan Berry, Breitbart
“Maryland’s chief medical examiner has declined to release Morbelli’s final autopsy results and the Maryland Mental Hygiene’s Office of Health Care Quality has released no results from an inquiry.”
May 15, 2013
Pope Francis and lying to save life
Jimmy Akin, National Catholic Register
“At issue is the question of whether it is ever okay to lie, particularly when you’re trying to save lives.”
Texas Lt. Gov. Demands Investigation of Abortionist after Video Exposé
Dr. Susan Berry, Breitbart
“In the new video produced by Life Dynamics, a national pro-life organization, the three former employees of abortionist Karpen allege that the Kermit Gosnell ‘house of horrors’ abortion clinic was not the anomaly that the abortion industry says it is.”
‘Your baby will thank you’: Planned Parenthood reaches new low with disgusting ad
Twitchy
“There is no logic here. None. This is depravity in its purest form.”
May 14, 2013
Murdered Thousands, Convicted for Three: The Kermit Gosnell Verdict
Drew Belsky, The American Thinker
“The pro-life movement’s challenge, as Rose says, is to keep the American people focused on how common Gosnell-like practices are in the abortion industry, and on all the unsung victims abortion effects.”
VIDEO: O’Reilly Features Live Action Footage in Carhart Segment
Bill O’Reilly, FOX News
For First Time, All Three Networks Cover Gosnell
Katie Yoder, NewsBusters
“And pro-life group Live Action has released disturbing undercover videos in which abortion providers counsel women about late term abortions and discussing the possibility of live births. The networks haven’t said a word about them.”
May 13, 2013
Live Action, Lying, and the Catechism: Why a Good Catholic Can Support an Undercover Apostolate
Deacon Jim Russell, Creative Minority Report
“So, what is the truth about lying and Live Action? Is all so-called ‘lying’ sinful? Should Catholics shy away from supporting or participating in undercover work? Let’s take a look.”
Kermit Gosnell Found Guilty on Three First-Degree Murder Charges
Dr. Susan Berry, Breitbart
“‘Anti-choice politicians, and their unrelenting efforts to deny women access to safe and legal abortion care, will only drive more women to back-alley butchers like Kermit Gosnell,’ Hogue said.”
Pro-Life Groups Elated After Abortion Doc Gosnell Convicted of Murder
Steven Ertelt, LifeNews
“Even as we celebrate this verdict, we honor and mourn as well those innocents who did not receive ‘their day in court’ – and we must remember that Gosnell is not an outlier within the abortion industry.”
Abortion industry is finally being exposed for what it is
Gregory Rummo, NorthJersey.com
“Our delusion is strong. How we got to the point in this country where we value the lives of animals more than humans is beyond immoral. It is sin. There is blood on our hands.”
May 12, 2013
Gosnell horror fuels fight for abortion laws
Josh Levs, CNN
“Despite the fever pitch of this political battle, the Gosnell case is really a chance for common ground – something the grand jury report noted in 2011.”
May 11, 2013
The Inhuman Abortion Industry: Seeing Is Believing
Eric Metaxas, Christian Post
“But those are just statistics. The video puts them in context.”
Gosnell Murder Trial Spurs House Republicans to Demand States Regulate Abortion Clinics
Melissa Barnhart, Christian Post
“Lila Rose … said she applauds the committee’s actions, and adds that the ‘gruesome practices’ conducted at abortion clinics are ‘standard operating procedure.'”
May 10, 2013
Rome March fro Life Marks 35 Years of Legal Abortion in Italy
Ann Schneible, ZENIT
“Thirty-five years after the legalization of abortion in Italy, thousands of pro-life advocates are expected to gather in Rome this Sunday, March 12, to march on behalf of the unborn.”
May 9, 2013
Interview: Live Action’s Lila Rose on Exposing Late-Term Abortion Industry
Dr. Susan Berry, Breitbart
“In addition to the brutality shown toward babies, Rose emphasizes that the suffering of women seeking abortion is often dismissed by the abortion industry.”
May 8, 2013
US anti-abortion leaders join Rome’s March for Life
Alessandro Speciale, The Washington Post
“Around 15,000 people took part in the 2012 March, according to organizers who predict significantly larger attendance this year.”
Video: LeRoy Carhart Says He’ll Perform ‘Purely Elective’ Abortions on Healthy, Viable Babies in Maryland
John McCormack, The Weekly Standard
“Carhart’s deadline for performing an elective abortion on a healthy, viable baby is apparently a month or so later than he claimed.”
Live Action vs LeRoy Carhart
Mike Spielman, Abort73
“Each Live Action video would be astounding enough as a standalone piece, but taken collectively, the number of lies and concessions they’ve been able to capture on camera is almost unfathomable.”
Live Action Undercover Enters World of Abortionist LeRoy Carhart
Melissa Barnhart, The Christian Post
Lila Rose, founder and president of Live Action, a pro-life group based in Arlington, Va., told The Christian Post on Wednesday that Carhart’s statements revealed in the Live Action undercover video are ‘shocking’ and ‘brutal the way Carhart describes this little victim. The only thing more powerful than his words is that this is what he’s actually doing.’”
Hollywood Gave Standing Ovation to Doc Comparing Abortions to Cooking Meat
Steven Ertelt, LifeNews
“These are the people who control the popular culture. And they think they are compassionate.”
Live Action Undercover Video Exposes Celebrated Abortionist LeRoy Carhart
Dr. Susan Berry, Breitbart
“Though it has since been confirmed that a patient of Carhart, Jennifer Morbelli, died due to complications from the abortion Carhart performed on her, Carhart lies to the undercover investigator and claims that Morbelli died of complications from her pregnancy rather than from the abortion.”
Video: Elective Third-Trimester Abortions with Infamous ‘Doctor’ LeRoy Carhart
Guy Benson, Townhall
“He acknowledges that the child is likely viable outside the womb at that stage of pregnancy (see the image at 5:42), and he knows the abortion would be ‘purely elective.’ Full speed ahead, as long as the ‘termination’ occurs in the correct jurisdiction[.]“
Live Action Captures Familiar Face in Latest Investigative Video
Matt Vespa, RedState
“Also, when Morbelli was bleeding, Carhart was unreachable for emergency care since he skipped town. This was a tragic replay of what happened in 2005, where Carhart performed a late-term abortion on Christin Gilbert, who also died in the process. She was only nineteen.”
Twisted imagery
Daniel James Devine, WORLD
“Meat, pickaxes, trains: A new undercover video and recording is a glimpse inside a late-term abortionist’s callous imagination.”
Late-term abortionist compares fetus to ‘meat in a Crock-Pot’
Caroline May, The Daily Caller
“In the video, Carhart explains to the woman that abortions for women are ‘not at all’ uncommon after 26 weeks, and says that if the baby were to be born at that age there would be a 50-50 chance of survival.”
Video [fixed]: Late-term abortionist says “It’s like putting meat in a crock pot”
Ed Morrissey, Hot Air
“Carhart has been featured in pro-abortion literature and film and appeared on television — or at least he used to make those appearances, until a woman died after one of his abortions earlier this year.”
Late-Term Abortion Doc Caught Comparing Unborn Baby to “Meat in a Crock Pot”
Steven Ertelt, LifeNews
“The latest investigative video release captures late-term abortionist LeRoy Carhart on tape discussing the grisly details of the abortion procedure and misleading a pregnant woman regarding the dangers of abortion.”
May 7, 2013
Antiabortion group releases Md. abortion provider’s comments on woman’s death
Lena H. Sun, The Washington Post
“They appear to be his first reported comments on the New York woman’s death Feb. 7 at Shady Grove Adventist Hospital in Rockville after he performed an abortion days earlier at the Germantown clinic.”
May 6, 2013
Eight people Planned Parenthood hates the most
Matthew Archbold, LifeSiteNews
“Lila Rose and the Live Action posse allow Planned Parenthood employees to reveal themselves in their own horrible words. They’ve exposed Planned Parenthood and other abortion clinics so badly that even the New York Times and the Washington Post were recently forced to cover it.”
AUDIO: The Ed Morrissey Show: Kevin McCullough, Lila Rose
Ed Morrissey, Hot Air
Iowa View: Gosnell trial exposes myths of abortion
Tom Quiner, Des Moines Register
“And folks are waking up to the fact that this kind of savagery is taking place at the hands of human abortionists elsewhere, thanks to the latest expose from Live Action Films.”
May 4, 2013
Philly abortion murder trial has national impact
David Crary & Michael Rubinkam, The Associated Press
“They also contend there’s little practical difference between what Gosnell is charged with, killing four babies who were born alive, and a late-term abortion.”
VIDEO: Lila Rose talks with Mike Huckabee about Live Action’s Inhuman investigation
Mike Huckabee, FOX News AUDIO: Undercover investigation into late-term abortion facilities
Nick Eicher & Joseph Slife, WORLD
May 2, 2013
New Live Action video: “We will not resuscitate” a born-alive baby after abortion
Ed Morrissey, Hot Air
“That sounds like what families do when loved ones pass away. Do clinics do this with the products of liposuction? Discarded appendixes? Removed gallbladders?“
Baby Killing: Pro-Life Leaders Demand Media Accountability
Katie Yoder, MRCTV
“Event organizer Maggen Elizabeth Stone, Live Action Youth Outreach Coordinator and Assistant to the President, counted 120 participants in the protest: ‘At my last count, there were over 120 people gathered with passers-by continuing to pause and join the crowd.’”
Live Action: AZ Abortionist Tells Woman To Not ‘Torture’ Herself About Baby’s Appearance
Matt Vespa, RedState
“The video gets more disturbing as Linda, a counselor at the clinic, tells the investigator that they could abort her child without the digoxin injection. Yet, that would take longer, and the baby could be moving as they’re extracting it from the womb.”
Abortion Doctor: We Induce Death
Todd Starnes, FOX News
“An abortion doctor said they ‘induce a demise – an intrauterine demise – um, death.’”
Inside the late-term abortion industry
Tim Carney, The Examiner
“That looks like a baby. And it’s viable. That’s why after 24 weeks in Arizona, it’s illegal to abort the baby.”
When Laughter Ensues in an Abortion Clinic
Kathryn Jean Lopez, NRO
“We don’t talk about it this way, but the “right” to an abortion is a mother’s right to a dead baby if she voices a desire to ‘terminate.’”
Shock Video: “We Will Not Resuscitate” Baby Born Alive After Failed Abortion
Steven Ertelt, LifeNews
“Now, Live Action released a third undercover video exposing Phoenix, Arizona-based late-term abortion doctor Laura Mercer and an abortion center counselor who would leave a newborn, struggling for life after a failed abortion, to die.”
New Undercover Abortion Clinic Video Sparks Pro-Life Furor: ‘They Will Not Resuscitate’
Billy Hallowell, TheBlaze
“Of particular note, the medical professional admits that some children do come out alive during the procedure.”
Anti-abortion group releases new secretly recorded video
Shannon Travis, CNN
“CNN has reached out to the various local, state and federal health and law enforcement agencies to determine if any will investigate Live Action’s claims against the Phoenix medical group. CNN has not yet received a response.”
Protesting Infanticide in Foggy Bottom
Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review Online
“The first floor of the glass-fronted office building has ‘relaxed’ in white lettering. It’s a spa. Tanning on the first floor. Death on the fourth.”
Doctor willing to abandon baby from failed abortion sparks protest
Adelaide Mena, Catholic News Agency
“Rose warned that ‘Gosnell is not an outlier,’ but that Live Action has documented a similar willingness to kill or fail to care for infants who survive abortions in clinics throughout the country.”
Prosecute Santangelo: Live Action Holds Rally Outside Abortionist’s Office
Matt Vespa, RedState
“After the rally, Rose said these developments should force us to reevaluate the justifications for abortion, especially the misconception that abortion ‘empowers’ women.”
May 1, 2013
Pro-life activists hold a rally in front of the Washington, D.C., abortion center recently exposed in a video
J.C. Derrick, WORLD
“Abortionist Cesare Santangelo’s Washington Surgi-Clinic sits amid the sprawling campus of George Washington University, a few blocks away from the White House.”
Group behind video rallies outside D.C. abortion doctor’s office
John Aaron, WTOP
“Rose also said she was in talks with the management of the building and hoped the doctor would be evicted.”
Abortion clinic video makers call for government investigation
Cheryl Wetzstein, The Washington Times
“‘When I hear things like, “flush it down the toilet” or “leave it to die,” it horrifies me,’ Melissa Ohden, who as a newborn survived a saline-infusion abortion 35 years ago, told the crowd of pro-life activists and onlookers.”
‘Some nerve’: Tamara Holder attacks Lila Rose, gets schooled by Katie Pavlich
Twitchy
“Stomp that foot, Tamara!”
Live Action Holds Protest-Conference in D.C.
Dalton Vogler, Townhall
“During the protest, anti-abortion media group Live Action held a press conference featuring key speakers in the fight against Planned Parenthood.”
‘Stop the Killing’ Infanticide Protest Draws Crowd to DC Abortionist’s Office
Katie Yoder, MRC TV
“The rally was held in response to a Live Action investigative video where a 24-week pregnant female actress asked Santangelo if a baby has ever survived an abortion.”
Anti-abortion group warns it has more controversial videos
Shannon Travis, CNN
“‘We’re not saying we have a film or footage of a child crying in a sink. Or a child left on a table who’s still breathing,’ [Rose] said. ‘Our investigators didn’t go in there to peek through the trash cans. We don’t have that information.” That, Rose said, would be for investigators to find out.’”
April 30, 2013
VIDEO: Live Action ‘Inhuman’ investigation on CNN
Shannon Travis, CNN
VIDEO: NBC discusses “Inhuman” release, Gosnell trial
KETK VIDEO: Lila Rose discusses “Inhuman” investigation with Sean Hannity
Sean Hannity, FOX News Abortionist Complains to Maddow That Pro-Lifers Have Worsened ‘Stigma’ Toward Abortion
Jack Coleman, Newsbusters
“Those working in abortion mills, wondering why they don’t get more respect, might do well to follow Shorris’s advice.”
Video: “We’ve forgotten what abortion really is”
Ed Morrissey, Hot Air
“The same people seem awfully silent, in every sense of that term, when it comes to the butchers of the abortion industry and the public officials who won’t lift a finger to put them out of business.”
Bozell Column: Skipping ‘Controversial Stings’ of the Left
Brent Bozell, NewsBusters
“All on tape. This callous murder plot sounds all too familiar to those following the just-concluded trial of Dr. Kermit Gosnell in Philadelphia. It is the culture of death on display, pure evil.”
Videos show Gosnell practices in other abortion clinics
Carl Bunderson, Catholic News Agency
“Dr. Emily’s boasts on its website that it offers ‘gentle abortion’ which is ‘streamlined for your convenience,’ and that for abortions performed between 20 and 24 weeks, ‘anesthesia guarantees that patients have no pain and no recollection of the procedure.’”
April 29, 2013
Videos, court fight fuel surging debate on abortion
Cheryl Wetzstein, The Washington Times
“Ms. Rose and other pro-life leaders are planning a rally Wednesday at the D.C. abortion clinic featured in one of the undercover videos, while in Congress, a bill has been introduced that would ban most abortions after 20 weeks in the District.”
Pro-Life Sting-Video Maven Lila Rose Is Back
Kat Stoeffel, NYMag
“There’s no sugarcoating the logistics of late-term abortions, even the safe, legal and rare ones.”
VIDEO: “Inhuman” investigation on “Special Report with Bret Baier”
Bret Baier, FOX News Undercover Video Exposes More Late-Term Abortion Horrors
John Hayward, Human Events
“She’s very insistent upon use of the word ‘terminate’ instead of ‘kill’ to describe what happens to the target of a legal late-term abortion.”
New Pro-Life Sting Videos of Abortion Clinics
David Weigel, Slate
“The cancer patient analogy is exactly wrong; that, I guess, is why Santangelo now says he was “tripped up,” and that he was trying to reassure a scared patient.”
WashPost Actually Covers Live Action Video Where Abortionist Admits He’d Let Baby Die on Table
Ken Shepherd, NewsBusters
“Every now and then a liberal newspaper can pleasantly surprise us. Today is one of those days, although as I explain later, our praise is qualified.”
Live Action, Anti-Abortion Group, Releases Undercover Videos from Abortion Clinics
Hunter Stuart, The Huffington Post
“The director of the Bronx facility, Marjana Banzil, also told the Post that she hadn’t watched the video covertly shot at her clinic.”
VIDEO: Anti-abortion group secretly records Dr. Cesare Santangelo
Tom Roussey, ABC7VIDEO: Live Action President Lila Rose on “The O’Reilly Factor”
Bill O’Reilly, FOX NewsUPDATE: Abortion Doc Featured In New Video Calls Lila Rose, Live Action ‘Terrorists’
Matt Vespa, RedState
“Santangelo is doing some serious PR work.”
Soulless Slate’s Saletan: Worse than infanticide? Exposing it, snitches
Twitchy
“To the vile and soulless Saletan, the videos exposing those horrifying acts are worse than the acts themselves.”
Abortionist on LiveAction sting: “I really consider them terrorists”
Allahpundit, Hot Air
“By ‘them,’ he means the Live Action people who exposed him, not doctors who’d leave a live-born infant to die on a table because that’s what mommy wants.”
Second Live Action video: Abortion survivors like DNR patients
Ed Morrissey, Hot Air
“The difference, of course, is that patients usually choose the ‘Do not resuscitate’ order for themselves.”
Antiabortion group releases videos of clinic workers discussing live births
Sandhya Somashekhar & Lena H. Sun, The Washington Post
(also published at The Portland Press Herald and The Huffington Post)
“He said he has not watched the video because ‘I don’t like to feed into these people. I really consider them terrorists.’”
April 28, 2013
New Live Action Undercover Investigative Video on Late-Term Abortion Industry
Dr. Susan Berry, Breitbart
“Listen to the description of how the baby is dismembered inside the womb over a two-to-three stage period.”
Group Shows Covert Video of a Bronx Abortion Clinic
Vivian Lee, The New York Times
“Lila Rose, president of Live Action, said the group would release more videos as part of its campaign against late-term abortions.”
‘Flush it’: Live Action undercover video shows abortion counselor advocating infanticide
Twitchy
“Because of Live Action’s journalistic courage, many are now being made aware of the horrors of abortion factories and the callous disregard for life of those who use ‘choice’ as a smokescreen.”
Late-Term Abortion Industry Worker: We Do These Procedures “All the Time”
Daniel Doherty, Townhall
“I can personally attest that this clip is almost impossible to watch without averting one’s eyes or looking away.”
Are there more abortion doctors like Kermit Gosnell? And do we want to know?
Melinda Henneberger, The Washington Post
“[W]e’ve tried not to do a lot of thinking when doing so would prove uncomfortable. Part of the answer, I believe, is right there in what that Bronx clinic worker said to the undercover activist: ‘I don’t know why you want to know all this; just do it.’”
Gosnell Isn’t Alone: Live Action Goes Inside The Late-Term Abortion Industry
Matt Vespa, PJ Media
(also published at RedState and PolicyMic)
“This is the first in a series of investigative reports exposing America’s late-term abortion industry, which is more popular than you think.”
‘Gosnell Is Not Alone’: Counselor Tells Undercover ‘Mom’ What Happens When Babies Move after Late-Term Abortions
Billy Hallowell, TheBlaze
“If a baby is delivered at home before the multi-day termination concludes, the counselor is candid about what the woman should do.”
This Is the End of Looking Away
Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review Online
“Walk into this reality with a new video Live Action released today from a Bronx, N.Y., clinic.”
Video: Was Gosnell an aberration in late-term abortions?
Ed Morrissey, Hot Air
“… Live Action conducted an undercover operation to allow people a look into the late-term abortion business, and we discover that the lawless approach we saw in Gosnell’s clinic was at the very least not unique.”
The truth about late-term abortion
Kyle Smith, New York Post
“Are the legal activities of New York abortion clinics really any less horrifying than those of Kermit Gosnell?”
April 26
Obama Praises Work of Planned Parenthood | Wall Street Journal
April 18
Abortion regulation not enough: Opposing view | USA Today
March 13
‘Every life is worth fighting for’ | News Tribune
February 28
Lila Rose encourages students to take a stand for life | The Troubadour
February 22
NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo to push for fewer restrictions on late-term abortions | Red Alert Politics
February 4
Abortion Advocates Attack Lila Rose: She’s Just Too Pretty | LifeNews
February 2
2013 Rose Day at state Capitol is planned | NewsOK
January 30
Activist Lila Rose: Media Ignore March for Life to ‘Cover Up’ Abortion | NewsBusters
January 28
Roe v. Wade, 40 Years Later | Al Jazeera
January 23
Rose enters ‘The Cloakroom’ | Human Events
Roe at 40: A Discussion with Live Action’s Lila Rose | RedState
January 22
Forty years later, we mourn — and hope | The Daily Caller
January 21
Lila Rose on The Blaze TV