WE DID IT! FOUR MORE YEARS FOR PRESIDENT BUSH.

Pro-lifers were ecstatic with the re-election of George W. Bush as President of the United States. After a long, tough battle, we could breathe a sigh of relief, knowing a pro-life leader was in the White House for another four years.

President Bush received 51% of the vote to 48% for John Kerry. He won 286 electoral votes compared to 252 for Kerry. The almost 60 million votes cast for President Bush is more than any other presidential candidate in history.

Along with winning the White House, pro-lifers helped to elect seven new pro-life senators and 20 new pro-life members of the U.S. House.

Many hostile commentators attempted to diminish the magnitude of the President's triumph. But "Bush increased his percentage of the vote in 45 states, and his gains were particularly impressive in many of the states that he lost," wrote James W. Ceaser and Dnial DiSalvo in the Weekly Standard. "Blue America in 2004 is of a decidedly lighter hue than it was in 2000." (See President's column on page 3, and the editorial on page 2 for more details.)

The contrast between President Bush and Senator Kerry couldn't have been more clear. President Bush promoted and then signed three major pieces of pro-life legislation, threatened vetoes when members of Congress attempted to add anti-life amendments to bills, and issued executive orders such as a reinstatement of the "Mexico City Policy" which requires all international organizations seeking U.S. funding for family planning to certify that they "neither perform nor actively promote" abortion as a method of family planning in other nations.

John Kerry was at the other end of the spectrum. He voted against every piece of pro-life legislation, including the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act and the Unborn Victims of Violence Act ("Laci and Conner's Law"). Kerry vowed that his first act as president would be to overturn the Mexico City Policy and he was an active proponent of embryonic stem cell research. Kerry also had a straightforward litmus test for judges. He often stated that he would not appoint any judge, especially to the U.S. Supreme Court, who did not support Roe v. Wade.

President Bush faced an unprecedented campaign against him, not just from Senator Kerry and the Democratic Party but from new groups, so-called "527s," referring to a provision of the tax code. Most sprung up as a way of circumventing the McCain-Feingold campaign "reform" law.