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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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 Actionis 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 Parenthoodclinics.
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 Inhumanvideos in an intentionally misleading manner. William Saletan of Slatecriticized 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 Inhumancampaign 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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