CNA Staff, Dec 1, 2020 / 10:00 am
In one of the last results in the 2020 election to be called, another pro-life female candidate won election to the House of Representatives in Iowa's 2nd district race certified on Monday.
Republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks eked out victory over Democratic candidate Rita Hart by the narrowest of margins in the state's southeast district, winning by only six votes as the election results were certified on Monday: 196,964 to 196,958.
Miller-Meeks' victory marked took the Republicans' net gains in the House to ten seats, narrowing the Democratic majority and raising hopes of stalling a slate of pro-abortion legislative priorities. She is the 18th new woman backed by the pro-life Susan B. Anthony List (SBA Lits) to be elected to the House this cycle.
"The exponential growth of pro-life women in the House is reflective of the fact that life has gone from being viewed as a political problem to a winning issue," said SBA List president Marjorie Dannenfelser on Monday.