Atlanta, Ga., Jun 21, 2017 / 15:33 pm
Abortion rights groups invested heavily and lost in Tuesday night's runoff special election for a Georgia House seat, and pro-lifers maintain the outcome proves the futility of the pro-abortion agenda.
In the June 20 special election to replace former congressman and now HHS Secretary Tom Price in Georgia's Sixth Congressional district, Republican candidate Karen Handel was victorious, holding off Democratic opponent Jon Ossoff with 52 percent of the vote to his 48 percent.
"I think that this is really encouraging for pro-life candidates," Mallory Quigley, communications director for the pro-life Susan B. Anthony List, told CNA Wednesday of the race in the Atlanta suburbs. "Planned Parenthood has just suffered another humiliating loss."
Ossoff ran on arguably a moderate fiscal platform with ostensibly mild rhetoric, promising to fight wasteful spending and bring more tech jobs to the Atlanta metropolitan area, and vowing to work with Republicans on areas of agreement.