June 11, 2010

By Dave Andrusko

Like many of you, I have those spurts of ceaseless activity that make it difficult to address everything at once. My wife and I have just come out of a marathon of work in the nick of time to talk about what our Political Director, Karen Cross, wrote about in the June/July issue of National Right to Life News: the triumph of highly visible, highly successful pro-life women in Republican primaries.

National Right to Life co-executive Director Darla St. Martin, NRLC Executive Director David O'Steen, Ph.D., and NRLC Political Director Karen Cross with Carly Fiorina (third from the left), who won California's Republican Primary for U.S. Senate.

Now, naturally, all these winners are being instantly dismissed. We are told that while they may win in GOP primaries, they are toast come the general election this November. I don't have to remind you of what you already know: don't pay a moment's attention to this drivel.

Just to list a few of these women, many of whom won decisively. In California there is former Hewlett-Packard chief executive Carly Fiorina, who refers to herself as "proudly pro-life." Fiorinia is taking on veteran pro-abortion Senator Barbara Boxer.

Pro-life candidate Sharron Angle, who won Nevada's Republican primary for U.S. Senate, and Karen Cross. Angle is running against Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid who was most responsible for shepherding the pro-abortion, pro-rationing health care bill through the Senate.

Down the street in Nevada, Sharron Angle won a three-way, all pro-life Republican primary and has the pleasure of battling pro-abortion Senate Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid. Reid's fingerprints are all over the pro-abortion, pro-rationing health care "reform" bill. Another Senate possibility is Kelly Ayotte, the former attorney general of New Hampshire, whose primary is September 14.

There are also pro-life female gubernatorial candidates, such as Nikki Haley, a South Carolina state legislator, who is squaring off in a runoff the winner of whom will face Democrat Vince Sheehan. And that is just a start!

For decades pro-abortion women, aided by the media, co-opted the label "feminist." Pro-life feminists, whether or not they get more even-handed media treatment, are boldly asserting that there is no more authentic feminism that the one that refuses to make enemies of mothers and their unborn children.'

Part One