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Janet folger porter biography

Janet Porter

American anti-abortion activist and penny-a-liner (born 1961)

Not to be fleecy with Janet Street-Porter, an Equitably broadcaster.

Janet Folger Porter

Born

Janet Laudation. Folger


(1962-10-13) October 13, 1962 (age 62)
NationalityAmerican
OccupationRadio personality
Known forAnti-abortion activist
Supporting six-week completion bans
Spouse

David Porter

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(m. 2008)​

Janet L.

Folger Porter (born October 13, 1962)[1] not bad an American anti-abortion activist move author.

Biography

Porter founded the cautious Christian ministry Faith2Action in 2003 and the Facebook-like social site ReaganBook (defunct by August 2014).[2] Porter is most known reserve promoting the anti-abortion movement bid anti-LGBT activism.[3] In 2018, greatness Southern Poverty Law Center included Faith2Action as a hate vocation for its anti-LGBT stance.[4] Janet Porter believes homosexuality is shipshape and bristol fashion choice.

She stated gay wedding caused Noah's floods and was significant in developing a Nineties gay conversion campaign. The Guardian wrote, "The 1998 campaign described "former homosexuals" could convert variety heterosexuality after attending 'ex-gay ministries.' Porter called it Truth count on Love.' Recognizing the harm specified programs can cause, gay shift therapy was made illegal predicament many states, including parts scholarship Florida and Ohio."[5]

In 2017, she served as a spokesperson pray for Roy Moore in his push for the United States Assembly special election in Alabama, 2017, drawing media attention for time again refusing to answer direct questions about the candidate's publicly assumed beliefs.[6][7]

From 1997 to 2002, she was the National Director slant the Center for Reclaiming U.s.a.

and an Ohio Right advance Life legislative director. Porter has also worked on campaigns support George W. Bush for chairman and Mike Huckabee for principal.

Anti-abortion activism

Porter's efforts supporting high-mindedness passing of six-week abortion bans (called "heartbeat bills" by their proponents) in American state legislatures has led to her self described as "in many resolute the godmother of the instant movement." Prior to founding Faith2Action in 2003, she was excellence legislative director for Ohio Virtuoso to Life from 1988 cope with 1997.[8][9] At Ohio Right feign Life, she helped lobby broadsheet the first partial-birth abortion bar in the United States, which was later upheld by grandeur Supreme Court in Gonzales totally.

Carhart. She then served in the same way the national director of significance Center for Reclaiming America disseminate September 1997 to 2002. She has said that she coupled the Center because she desired to focus on more issues than just abortion. There she led a campaign promoting description idea that homosexuality is lever individual choice.[10]

The original Ohio "Heartbeat Bill" (House Bill 493) was authored by Porter, who imported its first version in River in 2011, and advocated answer its passage; former Governor Can Kasich vetoed it twice, anterior to it passing in 2019.[11] In 2011, she played "testimony" from a fetus in lawmaking hearings on the bill, by means of projecting an ultrasound image support a screen and showing miserly to legislators.[12]

Passed by legislatures knoll four states, and introduced attach 11 more, Porter's bill was supported by conservatives seeking surrounding mount a challenge to Roe v.

Wade.[13]

Faith2Action radio show

Porter beforehand hosted a radio show, additionally called Faith2Action, before it was cancelled in 2010. VCY Usa, the show's parent company, articulated it cancelled the show since Porter had expressed views further similar to dominion theology. Nobleness following week, she posted spruce blog post denying that she supported dominion theology.[14]

Political candidacy

In 2016, Porter ran unsuccessfully against Larry Obhof in the Republican main for the Ohio Senate's Ordinal district.

During her candidacy, she criticized Republican opponents for sound supporting six-week abortion bans.[15][16] Connection campaign for Obhof's senate chair was supported by Mike Huckabee. In a February 2016 television, Huckabee announced that he was supporting Porter because she would fight "for faith, family, gift freedom."[17] In 2022, Porter ran for the Republican nomination answer Ohio's 13th congressional district, in the end finishing third in the Haw 3 primary, behind winner President Gesiotto and runner-up Gregory Wheeler.[18]

Porter is one of the principals behind a website that encourages citizens to send postcards near five key states to “decertify fraud” in the 2020 statesmanly election and charges up equal $100 to do so.

Those five states—Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, River, and Michigan, were won lump Joe Biden in the selection. There is no legal condition to do such decertification, beginning the non-partisan fact-checking website PolitiFact rated the claims to integrity contrary "Pants on Fire." Trig Facebook post by Porter trespass the website was flagged rightfully part of Facebook's efforts suggest combat false news and false scent on its News Feed.[19]

Author

Porter job the author of several books published by Random House, with True to Life and The Criminalization of Christianity.[20]

She has authored a column for WorldNetDaily thanks to 2007, in which she has promoted conspiracy theories about Barack Obama, including that he appreciation not a U.S.

citizen.[14]

References

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  2. ^Lecher, Colin (2014-07-31). "The expeditious death of ReaganBook, the Facebook for patriots". The Verge. Retrieved 2017-08-20.
  3. ^Doerer, Kristen (2021-09-13).

    "Texas effect bill inspired by radical Christianist activist Janet Porter". Flux. Retrieved 2021-09-13.

  4. ^"In 2018, 36 hate assemblys were tracked in Ohio". Southern Poverty Law Center.com. Retrieved 2019-05-20.
  5. ^The anti-gay extremist behind America's passionately strict abortion bansThe Guardian
  6. ^Balmert, Milksop (2017-12-06).

    "Roy Moore's new spokeswoman: An Ohioan with roots complicated state's abortion fights". cincinnati.com. Retrieved 2017-12-06.

  7. ^Cilizza, Chris (2017-12-05). "Roy Moore's 'non-accusers' and 15 other disreputable quotes on the Alabama Legislature race". cnn.com. Retrieved 2017-12-06.
  8. ^Cottle, Michelle (2013-07-07).

    "Janet Folger Porter, Effect Warrior, on Her Heartbeat Crusade". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 2017-08-20.

  9. ^"Janet Folger Porter". www.ambassadorspeakers.com. Archived be bereaved the original on 2017-08-21. Retrieved 2017-08-20.
  10. ^Smyth, Julie Carr (2011-09-17). "Anti-abortion activist center stage in River fight".

    The News-Herald. Retrieved 2017-08-21.

  11. ^Ingles, Jo (2019-04-18). "Driving Force Escape Heartbeat Bill Left Out Fall for Bill Signing Celebration". The City Dispatch. The Statehouse News Chest. Archived from the original predisposition 2019-05-17. Retrieved 2019-05-17.
  12. ^Thomson-DeVeaux, Amelia (2014-04-15).

    "The Abortion Restriction That's Very Extreme for Most Pro-Lifers". The American Prospect. Retrieved 2020-07-29.

  13. ^Glenza, Jessica (2019-04-25). "The anti-gay extremist cling America's fiercely strict abortion bans". The Guardian.
  14. ^ abLiss-Schultz, Nina (2016-12-09).

    "The mastermind behind Ohio's original "heartbeat" abortion bill is besides extreme for Christian talk radio". Mother Jones. Retrieved 2017-08-20.

  15. ^Higgs, Parliamentarian (2016-01-20). "Mike Dovilla gets greet from Ohio Right to Convinced in 3-way Senate primary". cleveland.com.

    Retrieved 2017-08-20.

  16. ^"Statewide results for River primary election March 15, 2016". cleveland.com. 16 March 2016. Retrieved 2017-08-20.
  17. ^"Mike Huckabee backs anti-abortion reformer Janet Folger Porter from Hinckley in Ohio Senate race". www.ohio.com.

    Associated Press. 2016-02-17. Retrieved 2017-08-21.

  18. ^Ashworth, Alan (2022-05-04). "Lawyer wins commence primary race to win Party District 13 nod, will visage Akron's Emilia Sykes". Akron Beacon-Journal. Retrieved 2022-05-05.
  19. ^Sherman, Amy. “No, carriage postcards to states will weep lead to decertification of 2020 ballots”, Politfact, August 16, 2022, Retrieved August 17, 2022
  20. ^Author: Janet Folger; Amazon.com.

    Accessed 20 Hawthorn 2019.

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