Brown (born March 4, 1944) is the president and co-founder of American Life League,[3] the oldest Catholic grassroots anti-abortion organization in the United States.
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.
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.
The stated purpose of the American Life League (ALL) was to promote anti-abortion positions to the public and Brown began developing ideas for ALL About Issues printed newsletter and within less than a year of its founding, ALL had 68,000 members and received assistance launching the organization from Howard Phillips,[8] virtually free publicity from The Heritage Foundation co-founder Paul Weyrich, and the help of extensive membership lists provided by right-wing 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.