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Marjorie Dannenfelser laid out the movement’s wins and losses post-Dobbs at the annual Iowa Family Leadership Summit in Des Moines
For Marjorie Dannenfelser, 10:10 will ever be etched in her memory.
On June 24, 2022, the president of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, the political arm of the pro-life movement, was gathered with her staff awaiting the U.S. Supreme Court’s last decision on the last day of its term.
“Finally, the good news arrived at 10:10 in the morning,” Dannenfelser on Friday told attendees of The Family Leadership Summit, the annual gathering of faith, family, and freedom leaders — and voters — in Des Moines, Iowa.
Dannenfelser, the event’s keynote speaker, called the high court’s landmark ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade and nearly 50 years of nationalized abortion, a “God wink.” Or perhaps a bright neon sign. She couldn’t help but thinking of the Gospel’s John 10:10, “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it to the full.”
“By God’s grace,” Dannenfelser said, Roe v. Wade was no longer the court-imposed law of the land.
“It wouldn’t have happened without a president who understood the importance of confirming judges at all levels who would uphold the Constitution and the right to life, and who didn’t shy away from that fight,” she said of President Donald Trump, who nominated three justices committed to originalism and textualism. That is to say, jurists who read the Constitution as it was written, not how some activists and politicians want it to be.
‘Profound Truth of This Cause’
Dannenfelser said it took a lot of praying, marching, and tireless work by the pro-life movement, including religious right Iowans who have long played a critical role in vetting presidential candidates through the state’s first-in-the-nation caucuses.
“Everyone who said Roe was indestructible missed the story. They underestimated the profound truth of this cause and the strength of the pro-life movement,” she said.
Her organization lays claim to the largest pro-life voter contact program in the nation, turning out many millions of pro-life voters since it launched in 1992. SBA Pro-Life America invested $92 million in the 2024 election cycle, funding a Voter Contact Program that reached more than 10 million persuadable and low-turnout voters, according to the nonprofit. That included north of 4 million visits to voters’ homes across battleground states like Michigan, Pennsylvania and Iowa neighbor, Wisconsin.
Three years after the Dobbs ruling, nearly half of the states have strong pro-life laws limiting abortion. Dannenfelser thanked Iowa’s Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds, who signed the Hawkeye State’s heartbeat law, which prohibits abortion after the unborn’s heartbeat is detected — as soon as six weeks into pregnancy. The law is responsible for saving more than 2,000 unborn lives, according to SBA Pro-Life America. Reynolds and Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders were among the summit’s featured speakers.
‘Two Very Different Americas’
But the abortion industry continues to claim hundreds of thousands of unborn lives each year. In fact, Planned Parenthood performed a record 402,230 abortions in the 2022-23 fiscal year — a 2 percent increase from the previous year, according to the Charlotte Lozier Institute. Total abortions have topped 1.1 million annually, according to the institute, meaning there are more abortions after Dobbs than before.
“Why? Because abortion activists don’t respect the law or state sovereignty. And they’re working relentlessly to undermine everything the pro-life movement and President Trump have achieved,” Dannenfelser said. She describes it as “the reality of two very different Americas.” --->READ MORE HERE
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