{"id":309636,"date":"2024-04-02T17:15:26","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T22:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=309636"},"modified":"2024-04-07T15:03:40","modified_gmt":"2024-04-07T20:03:40","slug":"lila-rose-bbc-right-life-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/lila-rose-bbc-right-life-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Lila Rose to hostile BBC interviewer: The right to life should not be up for a vote"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Live Action president and founder Lila Rose recently appeared<\/a> on the BBC’s HARDtalk, speaking with host Stephen Sackur about abortion laws in the United States, the idea that there should be no exceptions allowing abortion, and what Americans want. Sackur began the interview by claiming that it must be “a big problem” for Rose that most Americans want to see abortion treated as a right in the U.S. He pointed to a May 2023 Gallup poll<\/a> as proof of this. Rose, however, pointed out the truth.<\/p>\n

“Well to be clear,” said Rose, “the majority of Americans actually support abortion restrictions, Stephen, which is not the case for pro-abortion activists in this country [U.S.].”<\/p>\n

The Gallup poll Sackur mentioned actually shows that 51% of Americans polled in 2023 wanted abortion restrictions \u2014 with 55% being against abortion in the second trimester, and 70% being against abortion in the third trimester.<\/p>\n

Rose continued, “So those that are bewailing the overturning of Roe v. Wade \u2014<\/em> and Planned Parenthood and some of these very activistic pro-abortion groups \u2014 they don’t want any<\/em> abortion restrictions. And as you know, even in most European countries, abortion is largely restricted after the first trimester. That’s not so in the United States. In fact, most states in the United States don’t have those sorts of abortion restrictions.”<\/p>\n