By Live-Action, religion news serviceAnti-abortion activist Lila Rose, which utilizes undercover ruses film sting videos on Planned Parenthood clinics, addresses of the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C.
By Live Action, religion news serviceAnti-abortion activist Lila Rose, which utilizes undercover ruses film sting videos on Planned Parenthood clinics, addresses of the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C.
So why are some conservative Christians so worried about her work?Telegenieke the 22-year-old will handle that the seventh annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in Washington on Wednesday, along with former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Virginia Governor Robert McDonnell. Rose, who two years ago to Catholicism, is founder and President of Live Action, which she calls "a new media pro-life organization." The Group has released dozens of secretly taped videos in which Rose and other activists posing as pimps or underage girls seeking abortions, contraception or exams of ignorant Planned Parenthood clinics.Joseph Cella, a conservative political consultant who founded the prayer breakfast, called rose a poster child for Jesus counsel that Christians are "cunning as serpents and as harmless as doves." "Lila is one of the bright young leaders of the pro-life movement," said Cella. "They will be around for a long time."Cella acknowledged, though, that rose's work a "family" bickering between the conservative Christians. In fact provoked, the Live Action debate seems less an internal spat than a university seminar, with philosophers and political scientists consumed by a clear but complex question: Is it ever moral to lie?Rose said Live Action the deceptive tactics serve a larger truth. "The goal of all our visual investigative work is to abuse and injustice against those who are defenceless, "she said.Its purpose, Planned Parenthood, receives about $ 360 million in federal funding. By law, none of that money can be used for abortions, the nationwide group says 3% of its services.Rose's brand of activism is similar to that of James O'Keefe, the conservative provocateur whose work led to the Federal defunding of the community group ACORN and the dismissal of two staff members of the National Public Radio. Rose and O'Keefe worked together on similar video projects several years ago at the University of California, Los Angeles. In Live Action videos released in February, Planned Parenthood workers seem willing to help deemed pimps obtaining medical care and abortions for underage prostitutes.Attachment of the videos, House Republicans — and 11 Democrats — to defund Planned Parenthood voted in February; the resolution later died in the Senate. Planned Parenthood calls the tapes "hoaxes" that are "clearly doctored and cannot be trusted. But also a New Jersey employee layoffs and promised to retrain staff on rules for reporting hazards to young girls.Many conservative Christians rejoiced on the hit for Planned Parenthood, but Princeton University scholar Robert p. George was not among them.The "sting" videos are a form of lying, which the Catholic Church teaches "everywhere and always wrong", wrote George in a blog post February. "We must not allow our business to be compromised by lying, "continued to George, a leading intellectual who advises the u.s. Catholic Bishops. "We should not believe in the power of the truth to those who are against us in the great battle on the protection of human life at all stages and conditions transform abandoned."Ensure that other Catholic scholars defending rose's deceptions means joining the Western trend toward moral relativism, which church leaders, including Pope Benedict XVI, hotly contested.A recent editorial in the flagship that Evangelical magazine Christianity today said "turbulence" on methods of Live action "has embittered what could have been included in a sweet victory." The magazine also questioned whether rose's "ethical shortcuts" to rely heavily on scandal against abortion legalized.Discussing the morality of undercover work is actually an old Christian tradition, according to Christopher Tollefsen, a professor of philosophy at the University of South Carolina. St. Augustine tried to settle the argument back in the fourth century: he wanted to stop Christians from rival sects eradicating heresy spying.Rose said she with her spiritual director has consulted and other Catholics, who offered reassurance that the history is also full of Saints who cheats for charities.Take, for example, the Hebrew midwives lied to protect children from a murderous Pharaoh and priests who forged baptismal certificates to save Jews during the Holocaust. "The bottom line is this, "said Rose. "It is a tradition in our Church, and we expose the truth to instruct and enlighten, posing as genuine cases that happen every day."Peter Kreeft, a Catholic philosopher at Boston College, agrees with Rose. "The closest analogy I can think of ... is spying, "Lobster wrote in a recent column."If Live Action is wrong, then so is all espionage, including espionage Nazi atomic bomb projects and saving the world from a nuclear holocaust. "Rose's lawyer, Peter Breen of the Thomas more Society, calls the debate Live Action "much ado about nothing." "Their behavior seems no different than what a Police Department would participate, or ' 60 minutes ', or ' Dateline, '" said Breen. "They engage in investigative journalism to learn the truth. "For more information about reprints & permissions, visit our FAQ 's. Report corrections and clarifications, contact standards Editor Brent Jones. For consideration of publication in the newspaper, send comments to letters@usatoday.com. 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