Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Last night’s stunning victory for pro-life lawmakers across the country is expected to make the passage of life affirming laws much easier for the next two years.
Townhall is reporting on what’s being called a Republican “wave election” in which conservative pro-life candidates were swept into office in large majorities. In addition to gaining control of the U.S. Senate, where legislation has “gone to die” for the past year, they acquired a record number of House seats, gained a number of governorships and expanded their dominance in state-level legislative chambers. The latter two victories are significant because this is where the pro-life battle is being waged – and won – with states passing a record number of abortion restrictions since the last wave election of 2010.
Winning the majority in the Senate will be pivotal for everything from passing pro-life bills to selecting the next U.S. Attorney General and possibly even a Supreme Court justice. Pro-abortion Harry Reid (D-NV) will be replaced as Senate Majority Leader by pro-life Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) who has indicated that he’s ready to stop the logjam of legislation that’s been building up in the past year because of Senator Reid’s refusal to subject his party to controversial votes before an election.
It’s also significant to note that the so-called “war on women” appears to have died a natural death with voters deciding to oust Senator Mark “Uterus” Udall of Colorado who spent most of his race gender-baiting his somewhat wobbly pro-life opponent, Cory Gardner. The tables turned when Gardner, who initially supported and then withdrew support for the Life Begins at Conception Act, said he promoted over-the-counter birth control because it would stop the government from forcing religious institutions from having to cover contraception costs. Single women apparently liked that position more than Planned Parenthood who would lose a large portion of its lucrative contraception business if this should ever happen.
Other big pro-abortion losers in last night’s Senate race were Bruce Braley of Iowa and Kay Hagan of North Carolina.
Pink-sneakered Wendy Davis loses big in Texas
The conservative-led U.S. House of Representatives experienced a “wave” of its own last night – one that is now being called historic. House Republicans picked up enough new seats to propel them past their post-World War II record of 246 seats which was set in 1946.
Another big story is the huge win for conservatives in gubernatorial races across the country. Pro-life Republicans now occupy 33 governor’s mansions compared to the Democrats 17.
This includes a devastating loss for Wendy Davis of Texas, the virulently pro-abortion, pink-sneaker-wearing politician who became an instant celebrity last year for filibustering a pro-life law (that eventually passed).
“Media darling/Abortion warrior Wendy Davis lost Texas by more than 20 points,” reports Townhall’s Guy Benson. “Greg Abbott won women by nine points, based on exit polls, and annihilated Davis among white women. . . . And Davis’ State Senate seat has been won by a pro-life conservative woman. Savor that one.”
Benson lists a few other interesting “firsts” from last night:
“The conservative voters of South Carolina elected Tim Scott to his first full term as a US Senator by a huge margin. Scott is the first African-American elected to the Senate from a Southern state since Reconstruction. That’s uplifting, and it busts some self-serving, race-baiting lefty narratives.”
In New York, Republican Elise Stefanik became the youngest woman ever elected to the House of Representatives, at age 30, Benson reports, calling her race a “blowout.”
“In Utah, Mia Love won a hard-fought victory, becoming the first black female Republican to serve in Congress.”
All in all, last night was a big win for life, the rule of law, and religious freedom!
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