Pro-Lifers: Election an 'Overwhelming Victory'

Pro-Lifers: Election 

an 'Overwhelming Victory'

By Paul Strand

CBN News Washington Sr. Correspondent

Wednesday, November 05, 2014

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WASHINGTON -- Pro-life groups were cheered by the wave of allies swept into office Tuesday night.

"Tonight's overwhelming victory for pro-life candidates signals the fact that the bottom has fallen out of the abortion-centered 'war on women' strategy," Marjorie Dannenfelser, head of the Washington-based, pro-life group The Susan B. Anthony List, said Tuesday evening.

The SBA List and its partner Women Speak Out PAC spent $5 million on five key Senate races.  They saw outright victory in four of them: Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas and North Carolina.  And it's predicted they'll also see a victory in the other state they targeted, Louisiana, when Republican Bill Cassidy faces off against Democrat Sen. Mary Landrieu in a run-off next month.

The SBA List's communications director Mallory Quiqley told CBN News the group is particularly pleased with the ascendancy of Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell to the post of senate majority leader.

Some conservatives have worried McConnell may act like a mushy moderate and basically 'Romneyize' the Senate.  And they fear that could so displease Americans they'll basically spew the lukewarm Republican Party from its positions of power and not give it a presidential victory in 2016.

But Quiqley points out McConnell has a 100 percent pro-life voting record.  And he's promised to bring up the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act for Senate action soon.  If it becomes law, it would basically ban most abortions after the fifth month of pregnancy.

A number of House victories Tuesday night will also add strength to the already large pro-life ranks in the U.S. House of Representatives.