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A feminine face for the antiabortion movement

November 3, 2011 By Lisa Miller

When I spoke to one of the nation’s most prominent antiabortion activists this week, she was in the car, rushing to meet her 10-year-old daughter at the school bus. “It’s not a very neat exercise,” said Marjorie Dannenfelser, when I asked how she manages her work-life balance. Dannenfelser is the president of the Susan B. Anthony List, […]

Filed Under: On Faith, Washington Post Tagged With: Americans United for Life, antiabortion, Concerned Women for America, Lisa Miller, Students for Life, Susan B. Anthony List

Saint Sarah: Is Sarah Palin the Next Jerry Falwall?

June 11, 2010 By Lisa Miller

Another memoirist might prefer to keep such matters private, but Sarah Palin is not another memoirist. In Going Rogue: An American Life, Palin describes, perhaps for the first time in the history of political autobiography, a furtive trip to an out-of-state drugstore to obtain a do-it-yourself pregnancy test. This was in the fall of 2007, […]

Filed Under: Newsweek, Religion Tagged With: Abortion, Barack Obama, Beverly LaHaye, Carly Fiorina, Down syndrome, Down's syndrome, fetus, Gallup, George W. Bush, Guttmacher, James Dobson, Jerry Falwell, John McCain, Karl Rove, Margaret Thatcher, Marjorie Dannenfelser, Nikki Haley, politician, pregnancy test, president, R. Marie Griffith, Religion, Richard Land, Roe v. Wade, Ronald Reagan, Sarah Palin, Senate, Susan B. Anthony List, Trig Palin

About Lisa Miller

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Lisa Miller is a staff writer at New York magazine. She is the former religion columnist for the Washington Post, former senior editor of Newsweek magazine, and author of "Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife."

In 2014, Lisa Miller was nominated for the National Magazine Award and featured in Best Magazine Writing of 2014.

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NOMINATED FOR THE NATIONAL MAGAZINE AWARD

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