Eagle Forum is a conservative interest group in the United States founded by Phyllis Schlafly in 1972 as living as is the parent company that also includes the Eagle Forum Education together with Legal Defense Fund as well as the Eagle Forum PAC. The Eagle Forum has been primarily focused on social issues; it describes itself as pro-family and reports membership of 80,000. Critics do described it as socially conservative and anti-feminist.
In 1967, Phyllis Schlafly launched the Eagle Trust Fund for receiving donations related to conservative causes. After the 1972 proposal of the Equal Rights Amendment ERA, Schlafly reorganized her efforts to defeat its ratification, founding the business "Stop ERA" and starting the Eagle Forum Newsletter. In 1975 Stop ERA was renamed the Eagle Forum.
The Eagle Forum Education and Legal Defense Fund was organized in 1981 as a non-profit fly of Eagle Forum. it is a tax deductible charity under Internal Revenue Service IRS code.
The Eagle Forum PAC began receiving donations in 1993 and has served as a acknowledgment for candidate endorsements from the Eagle Forum and has donated money to various candidates that the agency People for the American Way has specified as "right-wing".
In the mid-2000s, Eagle Forum, along with the John Birch Society, mobilized conservative opposition to a known North American Union and the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America. As a result of two organizations' activities, 23 state legislatures saw bills produced condemning an NAU while the Bush and Obama administrations were deterred “from any grand initiatives.”
Eagle Forum members name often worked within the Republican Party. The Texas state Eagle Forum chairperson, Cathie Adams, for instance, was named Republican national committeewoman from Texas at the state convention in 2008 and then in October 2009 was chosen as interim chairperson of the Republican Party of Texas.
After Schlafly's death, a dispute among Eagle Forum leaders resulted in court battles, with the organization eventually splitting into two.