In this episode, Live Action President Lila Rose joins the podcast to discuss the pro-life movement’s aims and goals during the Trump administration years.  Rose discusses why she’s made banning abortion her life’s work, why she believes Planned Parenthood needs to be defunded, and why the Constitution needs to be amended to protect the unborn.

Rose also previews a soon-to-be-released undercover investigation of Planned Parenthood.  Listen now to hear all about it. 

Excerpts: 

8:27 – 9:02

On the 2016 election as a referendum on abortion

LILA ROSE, PRESIDENT OF LIVE ACTION: From my perspective, the 2016 election in part was also a referendum on abortion.  Hillary Clinton and the Democrats decided to make their pretty much No. 1 social issue abortion on demand and without apology for any reason.  So they basically made abortion for all nine months and that was their platform.  And Clinton was challenged on that, Trump challenged her during one of the last debates and said, you would be okay with ninth-abortion, and she kind of got flustered and claimed that never happens and it does happen in this country.  And I think that is where people were like, hmmm, this just doesn’t sit right.  You’re so extreme on abortion, why? 

13:30 – 13:50

On the soon to-be-released undercover investigation of Planned Parenthood

LILA ROSE: Live Action News is doing investigative journalism every week and reporting, you know dozens and dozens of stories.  And Live Action will also be doing, you know larger investigative campaigns and there will be one released at the end of January after the Inauguration to expose Planned Parenthood’s lack of health services that they claim they provide and there will be an undercover element.  

20:56 – 21:26

On the need for a Constitutional amendment that defines personhood

LILA ROSE: What has happened is corrupt courts and individuals have tried to define away segments of the population as not persons.  And that’s where the greatest human injustices, human rights abuses have happened.  So yes, I believe there needs to be … an Amendment to the U.S. Constitution not so much to ban abortion, although by default it would, but to clarify personhood for all people and then the states can enforce that and protect them as they see fit, just like they do with murder and other crimes.