Susan Axelrod's daughter Lauren started having epileptic seizures at 7-months-old. That launched Axelrod's campaign to find a cure for epilepsy, and eventually led to the development of CURE, an organization dedicated to finding just that.

(Axelrod shares her story in this video.)

The wife of Obama senior adviser David Axelrod is one of an elite but growing group of mothers organized around saving children — their own and others’ — ravaged by disease or violence.

Search tells us more about other notable women of the warrior class:

She wrote the book: Jenny McCarthy chronicles the stories of parents struggling to raise autistic children in "Warrior Mothers."

On a recent fact-finding trip to Sierra Leone, UNICEF supporter Salma Hayek caused some controversy when she breastfed another woman’s baby, while weaning her own.

Goodwill Ambassador for UNHCR and mother of six — three of them adopted — Angelina Jolie has traveled to refugee camps in war-torn regions all over the world.

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