Taking heartfelt action for God’s littlest citizens

Everyday in America abortionists legally end the lives of 3,000 innocent children. They’re children with beating hearts, moving arms and legs, and newly formed faces and toes. They are precious in God’s eyes and have the right to our love and care. Yet instead of being welcomed into this world, they are destroyed.

This isn’t health care. This isn’t female empowerment. And certainly, this isn’t a “right.” In fact, it’s the greatest human rights abuse of our time. Yet many have embraced abortion as all these things.

Since founding Live Action — one of the nation’s leading pro-life organizations — when I was 15, I’ve seen countless times that when we expose the truth about abortion, we break apart these lies. When we shine a light into the darkness, we can change hearts and minds.

Through compelling educational media, human interest stories, and investigative reporting, Live Action exposes the abortion industry’s lies and its exploitation of women and children for profit. We also reveal the unquestionable humanity of the preborn child and the brutal reality of abortion, and we tell uplifting stories about people who choose life even in the toughest of circumstances.

In our most recent investigative report, “Aiding Abusers,” we collected court documents, police reports, and the testimonies of former employees who reveal that Planned Parenthood — a celebrated “Me Too” movement supporter and self-proclaimed advocate for women — has for decades refused to report men who sexually abuse 12- and 13-year-old girls, then bring them to Planned Parenthood for abortions to cover up their crimes.

The report led Congress in June to call for a federal investigation, which could help build the case for ending the abortion chain’s taxpayer funding. Since Planned Parenthood gets nearly half of its budget from taxpayers, defunding would be a huge step in crippling its abortion business — a business that kills over 320,000 preborn children every year.

Another tool in the abortion fight has been our “Abortion Procedures” online video series. The short four-minute videos feature a former abortionist using medical animations to show what happens to a baby and mother during the four most common abortion procedures.

To test their effectiveness, we showed the videos to 500 “pro-choice” millennial women and asked them their attitudes about abortion before and after watching. The results were astonishing. Almost a third viewed abortion less favorably afterwards. And nearly half said the videos were so eye-opening that they should be shown in high school sex education classes.

“Abortion Procedures” has become the most-watched pro-life series in history, reaching nearly 100 million views online with translations in Romanian, Spanish, German, Chinese, and several other languages. Because of their success, Live Action is working to put these videos in front of every American.

“Aiding Abusers” and “Abortion Procedures” are just two ways we are trying to change hearts and minds. While laws need to change, attitudes must change first to create a culture that respects life. Then the laws will follow.

Live Action has the largest and most engaged online following in the pro-life movement — with three million followers sharing our content with their friends to reach millions more. Live Action and its followers work together to educate, inspire, and activate others to make abortion as unthinkable as other human rights abuses like slavery, human trafficking, and genocide.

By shining the light of truth into the darkness using the power of storytelling, and by using the power of our followers to share this truth with others, we are spreading the pro-life message throughout the nation in an effort to end abortion in our lifetime.

LILA ROSE is a featured speaker at the upcoming Legatus 2019 Summit. She is the president and founder of the national pro-life organization Live Action. Follow her on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.