As
I was a formerly Pro-Choice before I became Pro-Life, I would love to endorse
this Pro-Life Organization, Live Action. I recommend Pro-Lifers to follow Live
Action News to get updates daily. I will post information about this
organization from Wikipedia and other links. I would start with a prayer to end
abortion, in regards to praying for the success of Live Action.
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Live Action Logo [PHOTO SOURCE: http://www.liveaction.org/]
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INTERNET SOURCE: http://www.priestsforlife.org/prayers/praytoendabortion.htm
Prayer to End AbortionLord God, I thank you today for the gift of my life,And for the lives of all my brothers and sisters.I know there is nothing that destroys more life than abortion,Yet I rejoice that you have conquered deathby the Resurrection of Your Son.I am ready to do my part in ending abortion.Today I commit myselfNever to be silent,Never to be passive,Never to be forgetful of the unborn.I commit myself to be active in the pro-life movement,And never to stop defending lifeUntil all my brothers and sisters are protected,And our nation once again becomesA nation with liberty and justiceNot just for some, but for all.Through Christ our Lord. Amen!
Live Action
is an American pro-life non-profit organization founded by
Lila Rose in 2004. According to their website, they are a "youth led
movement dedicated to building a culture of life and ending abortion."
They are known for their undercover video exposés Planned Parenthood
clinics.
Operations
Live
Action publishes The Advocate, a student-based magazine distributed on
dozens of college campuses throughout the country.
Live
Action also operates an online news and opinion outlet called Live Action News.
The group maintains a Facebook page with over 650,000 fans and a Twitter feed,
@LiveActionFilms, with over 22,000 followers.
As
a youth advocacy organization, Live Action regularly organizes and participates
in rallies and protests, demonstrations, and media events.
Activities
2010
In
2010, a sting by Live Action on a Birmingham Planned Parenthood clinic led to a
state investigation and the clinic being placed on probation by the Department
of Health for what the state described as a "technical violation."
This same facility shut down "temporarily" in early January 2014 and
has yet to reopen.
2011
Live
Action gained attention in February 2011 for undercover videos at multiple
Planned Parenthood affiliates. The videos show Planned Parenthood staff
counseling an investigator posing as a pimp on how to procure clandestine
abortions and STD testing for his underage sex workers. According to
spokespeople at Planned Parenthood, the organization reported the activities of
the individuals involved to the Federal Bureau of Investigation before the
videos were made public. Neither the Justice Department nor the FBI would
confirm that an investigation was launched.
After
the video releases, Planned Parenthood denied Live Action's allegations that
they condone or support sexual slavery and statutory rape. They also fired one
of the employees in question.
On
March 1, 2011, attorney general Eric Holder announced that there would be no
prosecutions resulting from the video sting.
In
March 2011, Live Action partnered with the Susan B. Anthony List for a bus tour through
13 congressional districts either condemning or praising their representatives
for their votes on defunding Planned Parenthood of tax dollars through the
Pence Amendment. Planned Parenthood sent a bus to follow the Live Action &
SBA List bus in response. Former Planned Parenthood clinic
director-turned-pro-life activist Abby Johnson joined Live Action's effort in
early 2011 and partnered with the SBA List on ad campaigns to support the
defunding.
2012
In
May 2012, Live Action released a series of videos showing employees at Planned
Parenthood and NAF abortion centers advising patients on how to procure
sex-selective abortions. The undercover investigator posed as a pregnant mother
seeking an abortion on the grounds that her child was female, whereas she
preferred a male.
After
the first video (captured in Austin, TX) was released, Planned Parenthood
denied supporting sex-selective elective abortion and fired the employee
featured in the tape. Similar footage from Planned Parenthood locations in Maui
and Honolulu, Hawaii - including a counselor's advice on how to fund a
sex-selective abortion with state tax money - elicited no subsequent response
from the organization.
Another
video showed employees at two Arizona abortion facilities - Camelback Family
Planning in Phoenix and the Tucson Women's Center in Tucson - instructing the
investigator to suppress her reason for seeking the abortion. After hearing
that the investigator desires to abort her fetus for being female, the Phoenix
counselor tells her, "Don't let it be known!," while the surgical
assistant in Tucson says, "I'll just forget about it ... but just be sure
not to mention it [to the abortion provider]." Sex-selective abortion is
illegal in Arizona. Neither the two taped clinics nor the NAF took any action
following the release.
2013
In
the Spring of 2013, Live Action released a series of undercover videos
documenting late-term abortion doctors' stated policy toward children born
alive as the result of a failed abortion attempt. The video release coincided
with intense media scrutiny of the ongoing Kermit Gosnell murder trial. These
include a video where Cesare Santangelo, a Washington, D.C. abortion doctor,
admits that he would let a child die if born alive during an abortion:
Technically – you know, legally we would be obligated to help it, you know, to survive. But, you know, it probably wouldn’t. It’s all in how vigorously you do things to help a fetus survive at this point," Santangelo tells the undercover activist working for the pro-life group Live Action. "Let’s say you went into labor, the membranes ruptured, and you delivered before we got to the termination part of the procedure here, you know? Then we would do things – we would –we would not help it. We wouldn’t intubate. It would be, you know, uh, a person, a terminal person in the hospital, let’s say, that had cancer, you know? You wouldn’t do any extra procedures to help that person survive. Like ‘do not resuscitate’ orders. We would do the same things here.
Commentators
opposing restrictions on abortion have accused Live Action of editing the Inhuman
videos in an intentionally misleading manner. William Saletan of Slate
criticized Live Action's Inhuman videos as "orchestrated to
embarrass doctors and their clinics." Saletan claimed that he "went
through the raw footage to see what the video editors took out." Live
Action includes raw footage with every video release.
On
Thursday, May 23, 2013, U.S. Representative Trent
Franks (R-Ariz.) showed Live Action's Arizona video from the Inhuman
campaign as support for HR 1797, the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act,
which would ban the majority of abortions after 20 weeks' (five months')
gestation throughout the United States. The bill eventually passed in the
House, by a vote of 228 to 196, and now awaits consideration in the Senate.
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