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Welcome to the Eric Matexas show with your host Eric Matexas

Hey, folks. This is exciting. I am at the NRB and I get to talk to an old friend. She's extremely young, but she's an old friend. Her name is Lila Rose.

I think of her just as a pro-life hero. Her new book is out. It's called Fighting for Life, becoming a force for change in a wounded world. Lila, welcome.

Thanks Eric.

Now, since I last saw you and talked to you, you got married and you had a kid and you have another one on the way.

So you've been a little busy. I'm astonished. What is your married name?

My married name is Spence. Spence. So it's Lila Rose Spence, but we know her as Lila Rose. Lila, I'm very excited for you that you've been married, that you have a kid, you have one on the way.

And now you have a book out. Is this your first book?

It is.

I've always thought like, why don't you write a book? So thank you for writing a book because your story...

That's for you Eric.

Thank you.

Because your story needs to be in book form. And I guess I want to talk about... It's a great title by the way Fighting for Life, Thomas Nelson, great publisher.

I want to hear your story before we get into the book. Do you tell your story in this book at all?

So yes, the book is part story, part lessons, like an activist manual for how does anybody make a difference in the world, especially when they're fighting for a hostile cause.

Right. So what is your story? And I mean, you've told it to me before, but for my audience, how did you get involved? Where did you grow up and how did you get involved in the life movement?

Sure. So I'm from San Jose, California, grew up in the heart of Silicon Valley, one of eight kids. And I was heartbroken by abortion at a young age.

I found out about it by reading this history book as a kid. My parents had so many books in their house growing up.

And the book had these images in the center fold, which were images of children who were victims of abortion.

And so you see this when you're a kid. And I was already really interested in like justice issues, evil, right and wrong.

I kind of had this very sensitive heart. And when I saw this image of this baby, first trimester, you can see the humanity of the baby.

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