Any politician who doubts the impact that standing proudly pro-life has on a race doesn't have to look for any further proof than Texas' recent primary runoff.
Of course, you and other National Pro-Life Alliance members have long understood that being pro-life is good politics and good policy.
And that the gold standard in legislation when it comes to saving the unborn is the passage and support for a Life at Conception Act.
Looking back, things were initially looking good for Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst as the frontrunner in the primary.
He was polling very strongly in his run for U.S. Senate. Most of his opponents couldn't make it above 10% while he sat comfortably at and around 50%.
He also had a lot more cash on hand than his opponents, having poured more than 16 million dollars of his own money in order to finance his campaign.
But shortly before the primary, one of his opponents, Ted Cruz began a surge, denying Dewhurst the easy victory he had been planning on, turning the race into a runoff.
In making that surge, Mr. Cruz took a bold stance on several issues, but most importantly to National Pro-Life Alliance members he pledged if elected to cosponsor the Life at Conception Act.
Mr. Dewhurst on the other hand, for whatever reason, campaigned as pro-life in a general sense, but failed to pledge support for that one measure that would overturn Roe v. Wade, saving millions of lives.
In response, NPLA mobilized tens of thousands of members, encouraging them to contact Dewhurst and insist that he make the same pledge.
Yet even after the flood of postcards, emails and phone calls that Texas NPLA members sent Dewhurst, he still refused to return his Pro-Life Candidate Survey and take a stance on the Life at Conception Act.
Cruz's dedication to the Sanctity of Life and other issues paid off. He convincingly won in the primary by a margin of more than 10 points.
Now assuming things go well in November, as I expect they will in a strongly pro-life state like Texas, the unborn will have yet another champion in Congress, willing to defend them.
The fact is the positions taken by your candidates on the sanctity of life will ultimately determine whether Congress will move to end the Supreme Court's imposed policy of abortion-on-demand . . .
. . . or whether we continue to kill 1.6 million innocent babies every year for the mere crime of being "inconvenient."
                        For Life,
                        
                        Martin Fox, President
                        National Pro-Life Alliance
P.S. This victory, following the upset victories in Senate Primaries in Indiana and Pennsylvania, again demonstrates both the impact that NPLA members can have and the appeal of the Life at Conception Act to pro-life voters.
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