HARD WORK BRINGS SUCCESS.(pro-life senators chosen, congressional election 2002)

Date: October 29, 2002

To: NARAL Supporter

From: Tom Daschle, U.S. Senate Majority Leader

Rarely has so much been at stake for a woman's right to choose in a U.S. Senate Election.... Anti-choice forces are organizing and mobilizing right now to defeat champions of reproductive rights, champions like Missouri Senator Jean Carnahan. The U.S. Senate's pro-choice leadership cannot afford to lose an ally like Senator Carnahan.E So, we must succeed in getting out the pro-choice vote in this and other key states where pro-choice leadership could be lostE. Because Jean Carnahan is serving as an appointed Senator in place of her late husband, Mel Carnahan, Missouri's current governor could be forced to immediately swear-in Jim Talent, a strongly anti-choice conservativeE. As the Majority Leader of the U.S. Senate, I've stood up for a woman's right to choose, and the pro-choice leadership of the Senate has made a difference by safeguarding women's rights from the anti-choice agenda of the Bush administration. Please give to NARAL today, so NARAL can mobilize the resources to get out the pro-choice vote on Election Day.

Gratefully,

Senator Tom Daschle

Senator Tom Daschle's e-mail fundraiser for the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League makes two important points: First, the pro-abortionists knew exactly what was at stake in the election on November 5. And second, the Democratic Party furnishes "the pro-choice leadership of the Senate," with Daschle himself, as the Majority Leader, standing up for the "right to choose"--to the point of fundraising for the nation's most radical anti-life pressure group. Given the outcome of the election, one must assume that a good number of registered Democrats were repelled by the party leadership's radical pro-abortion stand.