Marjorie Dannenfelser

Marjorie Jones Dannenfelser is President of the Susan B. Anthony List, an American political organization that seeks to advance pro-life women in politics. She was brought into the organization as its executive director in 1993, shortly after its founding.

Activism

Ardently pro-choice as a college student, Marjorie Jones was the "pro-choice chair" of the Duke University College Republicans. While spending a summer interning with the Heritage Foundation, Jones roomed with several other interns. She became pro-life after a "bitter schism" in the house over the destruction of an "inappropriate" pornographic video between the libertarians and social conservatives in the house. Dannenfelser has said, "It made me choose sides", and she left the house with the social conservatives. The "domestic dispute began the gradual transformation that led Dannenfelser to her current antiabortion crusade, her conversion to Catholicism and" SBA List, according to a 2010 Washington Post profile.