Loretto Wagner (1934-17 June 2015) was an American pro-life activist and the leader of Missouri Right to Life.
Biography[]
Loretto Wagner was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1934, and she was involved in politics from a young age; she took part in Civil Rights movement protests, once even sitting in the African-American section of a bus to protest against segregation laws. Wagner co-founded the Missouri Right to Life activist group after the landmark Roe v. Wade case of 1973, a case that legalized abortion rights for women. Wagner was an opponent of the right to choose, and her deep faith in Catholicism drove her to oppose women's rights. She died in 2015 at the age of 81. Her daughter-in-law was Ann Wagner, a US Republican Party politician.