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April 2026

Announcing the Serrin Marie Foster Leadership Legacy Fund

Group photo of the Aggies for Life student group

Celebrate Serrin’s legacy while investing in the next chapter of a movement rooted in the belief that women deserve better.

Feminists for Life is the renaissance of the first wave feminists who opposed abortion. 

Over 32 years of leadership, Serrin has walked in the footsteps of our feminist foremothers and heralded the need to focus on holistic, women-centered solutions, challenging us to do more for women—because women deserve better. She has championed the unmet needs of women from campuses across the country to Capitol Hill and internationally.

She famously coined our slogan “Women Deserve Better® than Abortion” and created a campaign that inspired a national movement committed to addressing the root causes that can drive women to abortion and offering holistic, women-centered solutions.

As editor of The American Feminist® since 1994 and the original author of Pro-Woman Answers to Pro-Choice QuestionsSM  Serrin has educated the movement. 

Our Leadership Transition

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To honor her leadership and ensure the work she began continues, the FFL Board of Directors are proud to establish the Serrin Marie Foster Leadership Legacy Fund. Contributions will support leadership transition and the continued advancement of programs that empower women, strengthen families, and provide meaningful alternatives.

You can honor Serrin’s legacy with a gift to this Leadership Legacy Fund. Simply designate your donation “Legacy” using the enclosed envelope. If you wish to send a note, please send it to PO Box 151567, Alexandria, VA 22315. On behalf of future leaders and women and children we serve, we thank you!

Serrin wishes to acknowledge each of you who fueled our work through your donations and gifts of time and talent. She thanks those who have already sent notes, called, or emailed! She remarked, “I feel like I’ve been to my own funeral! Seriously, they say people give to people. Thank you for remembering the people you sacrificed for are the women and children we serve and future leaders we educate. March forth!”

“Women deserve better than abortion.” — Serrin Foster

32 Years of Leadership

Serrin Foster testifying before Congress
  • 1994: Hired as Executive Director, later named President, Serrin launched a new era of of advocacy and support focused on addressing the unmet needs of women.
  • 1994: The only prolife group in the coalition to advocate passage of the Violence Against Women Act. 
  • 1995: The only pro-life group to advocate the Enhanced Child Support Enforcement Act to help prevent coerced abortions using threats to withhold child support, thereby addressing the feminization of poverty.
  • 1995: FFL became a charter member of a national coalition against sex trafficking.
  • 1996: FFL worked in coalition with other women’s organizations to defeat the mandatory “family cap” and other punitive child exclusion provisions in welfare reform. The defeat later proved to help prevent poverty and abortions.
  • 1996: Created our flagship program, the College Outreach Program with kits to campus health centers and an ad campaign that Planned Parenthood’s INsider magazine predicted would revolutionize college campuses. They were right. It resulted in a 30% drop in abortions among college-age women within 10 years.
  • 1997: Moderated first-ever Pregnancy Resource ForumSM, now Pregnancy and Parenting Resource ForumSM at Georgetown University that became a model for other campuses and inspired state and national legislation as well as the “5000 Too Many Conference” for the Republic of Ireland.
  • 2000: Former Sen. Alan Simpson invited Serrin to a debate at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. Serrin’s teammate was former abortion provider and cofounder of NARAL, Dr. Bernard Nathanson. They debated Gloria Feldt, then-president of Planned Parenthood, and BIll Baird.
  • 2001: Her landmark speech, “The Feminist Case Against Abortion” was recognized in the “Great Speeches in History” series in an anthology called Women’s Rights.
  • 2003: Created the iconic “Women Deserve Better® than Abortion” message and campaign that has become the catch phrase for the movement.
  • 2004: Testified before Congress in support of the Unborn Victims of Violence Act aka Laci and Connor’s Law.
  • 2007: FFL launched the first-ever nationwide Pregnancy Resources SurveySM.
  • 2008: FFL released the first-ever nationwide report on the lack of resources and support for pregnant and parenting students titled, “Perception IS Reality.”
  • 2008: Feminists for Life’s “Women Deserve Better than Abortion” and woman-centered solutions incorporated into two major party’s political platforms.
  • 2009: After first successfully advocating benefits for poor and pregnant women through the State Child Health Insurance Program under President George W. Bush by regulation, it became federal law under President Barack Obama.
  • 2009: FFL’s Pregnancy Resource Forum became the inspiration for the Pregnancy Assistance Fund—grants from the Department of Health and Human Services to post-secondary schools and tribes to support pregnant and parenting teens, students, and families.
  • 2017: Created the Women Deserve Better helpsite to provide resources to women nationwide.
  • 2018: FFL released our report on the high cost or lack of resources and support at University of California schools for pregnant and parenting students. Serrin also wrote best practices for schools.
  • 2019: FFL’s report inspired AB 809, and received unanimous support by California legislators. It greatly enhanced support for pregnant and parenting students in California’s public post-secondary schools. 
  • 2020: Created the Girls Deserve Better® campaign to empower and protect teenage girls.
  • 2023: Launched a national Women Deserve Better billboard campaign.
  • 2025: Legislative victories include our long-called-for increased tax credit for parents, protections of teens online, as well as rolling back measures to spread abortion pills and making us pay for surgical abortions performed on the military and their dependents (including teens).
  • 2026: Celebrated 25 years supporting the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, most recently the Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act. We also fought for the Hyde Amendment.
  • 2026: We also celebrated the passage of HR 6945 Supporting Pregnant and Parenting Women and Families Act to pregnancy centers; as well as HR 6359, the Pregnant Students’ Rights Act that would require institutions of higher education to communicate information clearly and consistently about existing rights, accommodations, and resources for pregnant and parenting students.

Please support Serrin’s Leadership Legacy Fund now. Go to feministsforlife.org/support and choose “dedicate this gift” in Serrin’s honor. Thank you!