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Lila Rose to head anti-abortion event in Iowa (AmericanIndependent)

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A 22-year-old woman who pushed herself into the national spotlight with controversial undercover videos will headline Iowa Right to Life’s annual spring event next month.

Lila Rose, who at age 15 founded the anti-abortion group Live Action, has made secret videotapes of her visits to Planned Parenthood clinics. During a California series in 2007, she told clinic workers she was minor who had been sexually active with a 23-year-old man, presumably the father of the non-existent child she claimed to carry. The videos were wildly circulated in anti-abortion and anti-Planned Parenthood circles because the California workers did not report the incident to law enforcement.


More recently Rose filmed a sting operation in which anti-abortion activists posed as sex traffickers seeking information about disease testing for underage Asian girls, mimicking a similar tactic utilized by James O’Keefe, another conservative videographer, when he posed as a pimp and approached ACORN staff members. O’Keefe was later arrested for tampering with office phones in U.S. Sen. Mary Landreiu‘s (D-Louisiana) office.

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Complete article at American Independent : http://ainn.ly/hwQRkz