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Contact: [email protected], (323) 454-3304 LOS ANGELES--Live Action, the youth-led pro-life group responsible for exposing statutory rape cover-up, racism, and medical misinformation at Planned Parenthood, is preparing to launch several major investigations of the abortion industry next year. A donor fund has awarded Live Action a $125,000 matching gift, and Live Action is now starting a fundraising campaign to match the gift and fund the new investigations. Since 2007, Rose has led teams of young people undercover into dozens of Planned Parenthood clinics across the country, documenting rampant sexual abuse cover-up, violation of parental consent and notification laws, and medical misinformation... read more →

Contact: [email protected], (323) 454-3304 BROOKLYN, N.Y.,  March 24 — Kingsborough Community College has reversed their ban on student Joseph Hayon’s distribution of a pro-life magazine after receiving a letter from the Alliance Defense Fund. On September 24th the Kingsborough Community College, located in Brooklyn, New York, ordered Joseph Hayon to stop distributing copies of Live Action’s national pro-life magazine, “The Advocate.”  Live Action encouraged Hayon to call the Alliance Defense Fund to ensure that his First Amendment rights to freedom of speech were upheld. On Hayon’s behalf, the Alliance Defense Fund sent a letter on March11th to the Community College... read more →

Contact: [email protected], (323) 454-3304 WASHINGTON, DC - June 15 The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has released a new report on the amount of federal funds provided to organizations that promote or provide abortions, including Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood is the largest abortion chain in the United States, performing over 300,000 abortions according to their latest annual report. The report was requested by Rep. Pete Olson (R-TX) and several key Members of Congress.  Live Action, Family Research Council and Concerned Women for America will join the members for a press conference to highlight the report findings and detail why funding of... read more →

Contact: [email protected], 323-454-3304 APPLETON, Wisc., Dec. 15 -- Responding to last week's release of an undercover video showing biased counseling at an Appleton, WI Planned Parenthood abortion clinic, Wisconsin State Senator Glenn Grothman called on authorities to investigate and declared that state legislators should "make sure Planned Parenthood doesn't mislead young girls like this in the future." In the video, both the abortion doctor and counselor repeatedly insist to a reportedly 10-week-pregnant woman that the unborn child "is not a baby" and offer several contradicting definitions of "embryo" and "fetus." The counselor claims that the fetus's heart does not start... read more →

Contact: [email protected], (323) 454-3304 INDIANAPOLIS, July 20--The youth-led pro-life group Live Action released a new undercover video today showing staff at an Indianapolis Planned Parenthood clinic using manipulative and medically inaccurate counseling to convince a young woman to have an abortion. This is the third undercover video Live Action has released showing abusive counseling practices at Planned Parenthood of Indiana. When the woman, purportedly 10-weeks pregnant, asks the clinician, named "Sarah," when her baby's heart begins to beat, Sarah replies, "It's around I think the 8th or the 9th week that you can hear the heartbeat." The heart actually begins... read more →

Contact: [email protected], (323) 454-3304 MILWAUKEE, March 1--Live Action has made public the full, unedited video from an undercover investigation released last week of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Milwaukee, WI. The footage shows clinic staff counseling a purportedly 14-year-old statutory rape victim not to tell anyone about her 31-year-old "boyfriend" and coaching her how to obtain an abortion without her parents' consent. In Wisconsin, sex between an adult and a minor under age 16 is a felony, and health care professionals are required to report such cases to law enforcement immediately. Last week, Planned Parenthood Wisconsin CEO Teri Huyck called... read more →

Contact: [email protected], (323)454-3304 Appleton, December 9 — New undercover footage from an Appleton, WI, Planned Parenthood abortion clinic shows clinic staff, including the abortion doctor, lying to two young women about fetal development and encouraging the one who is pregnant to obtain an abortion because “women die having babies.” In the undercover video, when the two women ask a Planned Parenthood counselor if the pregnant woman’s 10-week-old unborn child has a heartbeat, the counselor emphasizes “heart tones,” and answers, “Heart beat is when the fetus is active in the uterus–can survive–which is about seventeen or eighteen weeks.” On the contrary,... read more →

Embryologists call Planned Parenthood counseling information “absurd and scientifically erroneous” Contact: Lila Rose, [email protected], (323) 454-3304 APPLETON, December 11--Two leading Ph.D.s in medical science have stepped forward to correct the "absurd and scientifically erroneous" information presented during two counseling sessions at a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in Appleton, WI. The right-to-life advocacy group Live Action released undercover footage Wednesday showing clinic staff, including the abortion doctor, lying to two young women about fetal development and encouraging the one who is reportedly pregnant to obtain an abortion because "women die having babies." The video shows the counselor claiming that the fetus's... read more →

Contact: 323.454.3304, [email protected] BIRMINGHAM, Feb. 11--The Alabama Department of Health has put a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in Birmingham on probation for violating multiple state laws, including performing illegal abortions on minors. A report by state health officials indicates that Planned Parenthood staff at the Birmingham abortion clinic, “failed to obtain parental consent for 9 of 9 minor patients in a manner that complies with state legal requirements.” The report also states that, “neither the Registered Nurse, the Medical Doctor, nor any other Center staff reported the suspected abuse or neglect [of a 13 year-old child] to the authorities as... read more →

Contact: [email protected], (323) 454-3304 MILWAUKEE, April 12th–A new undercover video reveals medically inaccurate abortion counseling at a tax-funded Milwaukee Planned Parenthood clinic. The video, released by youth-led pro-life group Live Action, records Planned Parenthood staff distorting basic facts of fetal development and pressuring a woman to have an abortion. In the video, a staffer tells a woman who is reportedly 6 to 8 weeks pregnant that at this stage her baby has “no arms, no legs, no heart no head, no brain.” The staffer emphasizes the difficulties of adoption, urges the woman to obtain an abortion as soon as possible,... read more →