With Voices Loud and Clear.

Pro-lifers responded in the most powerful way in this year's elections.

>TX Candidates and political parties appealed to pro-lifers. National Right to Life PAC called upon us to give generously of our time and funds.

But the most persistent appeal touched something deeper - - our consciences - - and did so without uttering a word. It was the voice of the hundreds of thousands of unborn children who might live or die depending on how we voted. Their futures depended on whether we could get enough of our neighbors to join us in voting for Life.

Exit polls only affirmed what we already knew: pro-life voters were highly charged to meet this challenge. Moral values placed first in importance to voters, according to Associated Press exit polls, and at least one reputable pollster said abortion was clearly first among the moral issues in importance.

So what happens now? Where does all that energy, that sense of urgency go? Will we experience a let-down?

It would be a tragedy if the momentum that carried President Bush to a second term was allowed to dissipate, or even worse, disappear. Unfortunately, this is what happens all too often in social movements. A sense of complacency follows glorious victories, whereas stinging defeats generate panic and action.

We must not allow the pro-abortion side to be the ones who are galvanized to action because of their mounting fear that they might lose the so-called "right" to abortion. We have to keep up the enthusiasm, drive, and commitment that produced so many victories on November 2.