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Judie Brown
Born
Judith Ann Brown
née Limbourne

(1944-03-04) March 4, 1944 (age 80)
Kmart, 1965 - 1968
Kresge's
OpponentPlanned Parenthood
Board member ofPontifical Academy for Life
Catholic Scholars for Social Justice
Fellowship of Catholic Scholars
Children of God for Life
Spouse
Paul A. Brown
​
(m. 1967)​
Children3[2]
Websiteall.org

Judith A. Brown (born March 4, 1944) is the president and co-founder of

anti-abortion organization in the United States.[4]

Early life and education

Brown was born in Los Angeles, on March 4, 1944. Her father abandoned his family a year and a half later, leaving her mother and her younger sister Sheila, who had just been born, to fend for themselves. Brown's mother remarried in 1952 to Chester Limbourne when she was six years old. Brown's grandparents took them in and were influential in molding her character and resolve, and her grandparents insured that she received the proper Catholic education and paid for her to attend St. Mary's Academy in Inglewood, California, an all-girls Catholic School run by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet.[2]

After graduating St. Mary's Academy in 1962, Brown worked at Kresge's as a bookkeeper while attending

Associated Arts degree in 1963 and completed a bachelor's degree program at UCLA two years later.[2]

Career

Kmart

By the time she turned 21, Browne was an office manager for the

First Holy Communion
. Both of the Browns had worked for K-Mart at this time when she opted to stay home to begin a family. Their first child was Hugh Richard III born on November 23, 1968, followed by Catherine Marie.[2]

In 1970, Brown began handing out

anti-abortion movement. As her husband had been transferred by Kmart during 1973 to Savannah, Georgia, Brown got involved with helping organizers of the Georgia Right to Life stuff envelopes and mail out anti-abortion materials following the U.S. Supreme Court Roe vs. Wade decision. Her third child Christina Lee was born on June 19, 1974, and eight months later the Brown family moved with Kmart again, from Georgia to Kannopolis, North Carolina, and later to Steubenville, Ohio.[2]

American Life League

With her husband Paul Brown having been transferred again by Kmart to the

schism with the National Right to Life Committee
allowing for legal abortion in the case of rape, incest, and health of the mother. Brown reportedly stated in 1981 that the NRLC had been "trying to destroy my husband" by absorbing his Life Amendment Political Action Committee.[7]

Within a month of her split with NRLC, she began the American Life Lobby (dormant since 1991) and the American Life League through contacts made by her husband who had previously founded the Life Amendment Political Action Committee or LAPAC. The stated purpose of the

direct mail specialist Richard Viguerie.[9]

The American Life Lobby that had begun in the basement of the Brown's residence had by September 1981 ALL moved into regular office space and earned legitimate notice on Capitol Hill during October of that year when ALL played a positive role in defeating the Hatch Amendments pertaining to the Human Life Amendment legislative proposals.[9]

ALL street tactics

In 1994, ALL filed suit to challenge the

United States Supreme Court refused to hear the case.[9]

Author

Brown has written 12 books, including an autobiography entitled Not My Will but Thine (2002),[11] Saving Those Damned Catholics: A Defense of Catholic Teaching (2007),[12] and her most recent The Broken Path: How Catholic Bishops Got Lost in the Weeds of American Politics (2011).[13]

In 2013, Brown wrote a short booklet on Pope Francis, Pope Francis: Portrait of Holiness.[14]

References

  1. ^ "Celebrity Photo Gallery, Celebrity Wallpapers, Celebrity Videos, Bio, News, Songs, Movies". www.in.com. Archived from the original on 2014-05-01.
  2. ^ a b c d e "October 4, 1999 DAILY CATHOLIC TEXT Section One (oct4dc1.htm)". dailycatholic.org.
  3. ^ "ALL". Retrieved 2014-03-24.
  4. ^ "ALL founded". Retrieved 2014-03-24.
  5. ^ "Founded". Archived from the original on 2014-03-30. Retrieved 2014-03-30.
  6. ^ "Celebrate Life Magazine". clmagazine.org. Archived from the original on 2014-05-02. Retrieved 2014-04-30.
  7. ^ "The American Life League: "More interested in making a statement than making a difference"" (PDF). catholicsforchoice.org. 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-05-31.
  8. ^ "Catholics Bid Farewell to Pro-Life Lion Howard Phillips". National Catholic Register. Archived from the original on 2014-05-02. Retrieved 2014-04-30.
  9. ^ a b c "People For the American Way - American Life League". pfaw.org. Archived from the original on 11 October 2006.
  10. ^ "FindLaw's United States Fourth Circuit case and opinions". Findlaw. Retrieved 22 January 2019.
  11. ISBN 1890712310
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  12. ISBN 978-1425723460
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  13. ISBN 978-1450796699
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  14. ^ "Pope Francis: Portrait of Holiness". Retrieved 2014-03-25.

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