Pro-choice wipeout?

'Clear mandate... to advance boldly a pro-life agenda in the Congress,' says Family Research Council prez

According to Connor, the Susan B. Anthony List Candidate Fund, (Gosh, what an example of misleading naming.) an organization that distributes money to "pro-life" candidates, won 22 out of 30 races "in which it made endorsements and contributions." Connor claims that "the number of solidly pro-life women in Congress increased to 12, including the first pro-life woman senator, Elizabeth Dole."

"By contrast," Connor writes, "the pro-abortion Emily's List, the nation's wealthiest PAC, lost big, with 17 of its top 22 targeted candidates going down to defeat, and the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League saw 18 of its 19 targeted candidates fail."

For Connor, this means moving full steam ahead on antiabortion legislation. Issues that had been stalled or blocked by a Democrat-controlled Senate should now see the light of day, including: a ban on partial birth abortion; the Abortion Non-Discrimination Act, that according to Connors "protect[s] the rights of conscience for hospitals, doctors, nurses, and other health care workers"; a Child Custody Protection Act that "preserve[s] the rights of parents against interstate transportation of minors for the purposes of obtaining abortions"; "a ban on cloning human embryos for medial experimentation"; and possibly the most important on his laundry list of life issues, the confirmation of federal judges "who respect the Constitution and the sanctity of life."

This was an important election, non-voters, predominately pro-choice, lost..