We have been here before. We’ve had heartbreaking losses. We know setbacks.
We didn’t give up then and we will not give up now. We will never stop fighting to protect the lives of the unborn and their mothers. As long as the pro-abortion industry marches toward profit over lives, the pro-life community will stand in the way and stand up for women and babies.
Arizona will come to regret passing Prop 139 – when girls and women lose their doctors and safeguards, when parents get shut out, when a staggering number of unborn lives end before they even begin, and when voters realize they have been lied to by proponents who would say anything to pass their extreme abortion amendment.
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This is what happens when lies go unchecked and big money manipulates voters with the power of labor unions and national abortion organizations. That outside money, totaling more than $35 million dollars, went directly to confusing voters and scaring them with misinformation. We will never know how many voters would have rejected Prop 139 had they known the truth.
I suspect abortion activists know, and that is why they deceitfully lied to voters, telling them there was a ban – when there was no ban – and shamefully telling them women cannot get treatment for miscarriages without passing the proposition. Again, false. But Prop 139 was never about protecting women; it has always been about unregulated and unlimited abortion.
We cannot understate the impact of such a financial deficit. We were outspent $35 million to about $2 million. The lack of resources allowed proponents to flood the airwaves with deceitful ads, with no counter message on the same level.
But make no mistake, what we lacked in money, we doubled in grassroots efforts. Allied organizations deployed tens of thousands of volunteers, knocked on about 200,000 doors, reached countless voters on social media, and passed out about 1.5 million pieces of information. That is in addition to speaking at events, in the news, and at churches.
It is that dedication that gives me hope and assures me this is not an end, but a time to regroup. We lost a battle, but the fight is not over, and we are not in retreat.
LifeNews Note: Cathi Herrod is Presdient of Center for Arizona Policy Action.
