Pro-lifers owe a debt of gratitude to Dan Lipinski

In last Tuesday’s Democratic congressional primary in Illinois’s 3rd District, challenger Marie Newman upset incumbent Democratic Rep. Dan Lipinski by approximately a 2-point margin, 47% to 45%. This is a tough defeat for the pro-life movement.

Lipinski was one of the few consistently pro-life Democrats in Congress. Indeed, with his likely ouster, the already thin ranks of pro-life Democrats in Congress absorb yet another loss. Congressional Democrats Ben McAdams of Utah and Henry Cuellar of Texas, sometimes vote pro-life, but the only other Democrat in Congress who consistently supports pro-life legislation is Collin Peterson of Minnesota.