Welcome to the Eric Mettaxas show with your host, Eric Mettaxas.

Hey there, 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 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.

A little bit.

I'm astonished. What is your married name?

My married name is Spence. Spence. So it's Lila Rose Spence, but we know where is 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 write a book?

So thank you for writing a book because your story, 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 then 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. You 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.

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