Marjorie Dannenfelser is the president of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America (formerly the Susan B. Anthony List), a leading organization in the anti-abortion movement. She contributed opinion pieces and commentary to The Weekly Standard between 2006 and 2014, focusing on abortion policy, pro-life political strategy, and the intersection of social conservatism with electoral politics.
In 2012, Democrats ran a well-coordinated campaign to demonize and distort pro-life candidates as anti-woman misogynists hell-bent on taking away birth control. The Republican response to this line of attack consisted mostly of pivoting away to focus on “jobs” and the “economy.” With rare…
In his first week in office, President Obama issued an executive order overturning the Reagan-era Mexico City regulations, which had prohibited American foreign aid from going to organizations that finance overseas abortions. Just a few weeks later, the Gallup organization revealed that the…
We are learning all sorts of lessons, very early on, about what President Obama means by "reaching out" to find "common ground" with pro-life Americans. When it came to rescinding the regulation prohibiting federal family-planning money for foreign abortionists, it meant that the president…
It looks like Sarah Palin won't be fading away. Not if Saxby Chambliss has anything to say about it. "I can't overstate the impact she had down here," said Chambliss shortly after his surprisingly solid 15-point victory in the December 2 Georgia Senate runoff. Chambliss, who went from a 49.8-46.8…
THE PRO-LIFE MOVEMENT has witnessed a stunning turnaround over the past 10 years. A decade ago, on the heels of a 1992 election season dubbed "the year of the woman," the movement was deeply engaged in the fight on Capitol Hill to stop passage of the Freedom of Choice Act, legislation that would…
THE PRO-LIFE MOVEMENT has witnessed a stunning turnaround over the past 10 years. A decade ago, on the heels of a 1992 election season dubbed "the year of the woman," the movement was deeply engaged in the fight on Capitol Hill to stop passage of the Freedom of Choice Act, legislation that would…