Washington D.C., Dec 15, 2015 / 15:01 pm
If the pro-life movement is to achieve its biggest policy victories to date, it must have a supporter in the White House after the 2016 election, one pro-life advocacy group has insisted.
"The stakes are very high," Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List, told CNA in an interview about the 2016 election.
Two landmark pieces of pro-life legislation have made recent gains in Congress, but the White House had announced its intent to veto them. Passage of this legislation is what is at stake in the 2016 election, Dannenfelser maintained.
If both the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act – a ban on most abortions after five months of pregnancy passed by the House – and the defunding of the nation's largest abortion provider Planned Parenthood, approved by both houses of Congress, became law, it "would truly be groundbreaking," she added.