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Article: Pro-Life Voters Make a Difference in Crucial Senate Races The Pro-Life Increment -- 2002.
- Article from:
- National Right to Life News
- Article date:
- November 1, 2002
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Pro-lifers knew well before November 5 that the national battle for the United States Senate was also a battle between pro-life and pro-abortion forces to determine whether pro-life or pro-abortion leadership would win Senate control. But as the nature of this political contest shaped up, it became as stark a battle over abortion as one could imagine. In each of the nine key Senate races that collectively were to determine control of the Senate, a pro-life Republican faced a pro-abortion Democrat and abortion was a major campaign issue.
The pro-life candidate won in seven of the nine contests (see story, page one). Post-election polling shows that abortion played ...