While some pro-life candidates lost, things were far from all bad - Pro-life Advocates Won Majority of races Against Abortion advocates News From LifeNews.com
In a statement provided to LifeNews.com the National Right to Life Committee said it was involved in 87 highly contested races for the House and Senate and the group won 53 percent of those contests.
"Unfortunately as the races developed almost all of these races involved protecting incumbent pro-life Republicans," Darla St. Martin, the associate executive director of National Right to Life, told LifeNews.com.
With the tenuous political climate for Republicans on other political issues, that made it more difficult to defend their seats.
Another pro-life group, the Susan B. Anthony List, said that, for the fifth consecutive election in a row, more of its candidates own than lost.
The SBA List Candidate Fund won 59% of its federal campaigns this year. Seventeen of 29 SBA Candidate Fund-endorsed candidates were victorious on Tuesday
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