What We Know And Why That Matters.

As you read and make use of this edition of National Right to Life News, there will be only a few short weeks before our great nation will go to the polls to elect the next President of the United States. Voting is an enormous privilege, one for which millions of men and women have died to protect, both here and abroad.

And as we have written in this newspaper more than once, four years ago, only 51.2% of the voting-age population in America chose to take a few minutes out of their schedules to vote in an election so close that its final outcome was not determined for 35 days afterwards. And in two states, including the pivotal state of Florida, fewer than 1,000 votes separated George W. Bush and Al Gore.

If polling data are to be believed, for much of the general public, the abortion issue will not rank highest in their thoughts on November 2. After all, it is one of "those" issues that makes most Americans uncomfortable. They prefer not to think about it.

And yet we know that it is no exaggeration to say that in George Bush and Dick Cheney we have the most pro-life presidential ticket in history. And for NARAL and Planned Parenthood, the duo of Senators John Kerry and John Edwards constitutes their "dream ticket." Senator Kerry and President Bush could not take more diametrically opposed positions on the question of extending protection to unborn children.

We know that a President Kerry would mean vetoes of any pro-life legislation that passes Congress, the appointment of solidly pro-abortion judges (he has already pledged to appoint only "pro-choice" justices to the Supreme Court), a constant din of pro-abortion rhetoric, and the loss of millions of innocent unborn lives. It is no accident that the Kerry campaign organized an April 23 gathering of the Abortion Establishment in Washington, D.C. His administration would be, in essence, a mouthpiece for NARAL and Planned Parenthood. The only thing we don't know for certain is whether it could be worse!

We know that President George W. Bush is pro-life and that his administration would continue to be guided by that principle. We know he will appoint judges who will interpret the Constitution according to its actual text (which contains NO "right" to abortion).

We know he will provide an opportunity to enact pro-life legislation that will save innocent unborn children. We know that he is genuinely pro-life. We know he will continue to work for the day, as he has said so often, "when every child is welcomed in life and protected in law." We know he has a track record that he can proudly run on.