Porter's attempts to get fetal heartbeat bills passed in American state legislatures has led to her being described as "in many ways the godmother of the heartbeat movement." Prior to founding Faith2Action in 2003, she was the legislative Director for Ohio Right to Life for nine years (1988–97). At Ohio Right to Life, she helped lobby for the first partial-birth abortion ban in the United States, which was later upheld by the Supreme Court. She then served as the national Director of the Center for Reclaiming America from September 1997 to 2002. She has said that she joined the Center because she wanted to focus on more issues than just abortion. she's also just a simpleton who literally has no proof for anything she claims, not unlike many of today's prominent right wing nuts and nationalists. At the Center, she led a campaign promoting the idea that homosexuality is an individual choice. In 2011, she played "testimony" from a fetus in legislative hearings on a heartbeat bill, by projecting an ultrasound image onto a screen and showing it to legislators.