Lila Rose, College Pro-Life Activist, to Speak in Danville, December 8 December 8, 2009

Catholics@Work is proud to announce Miss Lila Rose, student activist on behalf of the rights of the unborn, will be its featured speaker at its breakfast event, December 8, 2009.

At age fifteen, Lila founded Live Action, which is a student-led organization that uses "new media" to educate and mobilize both local and national audiences to demand accountability from the abortion industry and human rights for the pre-born. Live Action conducts undercover investigations of the abortion industry and releases the findings to the public through traditional and independent media outlets.

Lila's most recent undercover work, Live Action's multi-state investigation "The Mona Lisa Project," vividly illustrates how Planned Parenthood's 'abortion-first mentality' leads it to disregard state laws meant to protect young girls, instead sending them back into the arms of their sexual abusers. "The Mona Lisa Project" has prompted officials in several states to take action against Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood affiliates are the subject of ongoing investigations in Indiana and Alabama, and the Tennessee legislature recently voted to end up to $1.1 million in taxpayer subsidies to the abortion provider.

In Fall 2006, as a new undergraduate at UCLA Lila founded the pro-life student magazine The Advocate, administered through the new UCLA student chapter of Live Action. The Advocate ran its inaugural issue in January 2007, reporting on Lila's first undercover investigation-an expose of pro-abortion counseling at UCLA's Arthur Ashe Health Center and institutional support for abortion for pregnant students. The Advocate has since gone national and is currently being distributed to over 60,000 college students nationally.

Official Website: http://www.CatholicsAtWork.org