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PRO-LIFE VICTORY IN FLORIDA
Rick Scott wins in race for U.S. Senate

WASHINGTON – Pro-life Gov. Rick Scott tonight defeated pro-abortion Sen. Bill Nelson in the race for U.S. Senate. Scott was endorsed by National Right to Life.

“We congratulate pro-life Senator-elect Rick Scott,” said Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life. “National Right to Life’s outreach to Florida voters was key to ensuring that the pro-life values of the state are represented in the U.S. Senate by Rick Scott.”

National Right to Life’s political committees actively contacted pro-life voters across Florida through email, social media, and phone calls with information about Scott and Nelson’s positions on abortion. Additionally, National Right to Life’s political committees aired over 3,300 radio ads statewide on behalf of Gov. Scott.

As governor of Florida, Rick Scott has promoted life-affirming alternatives to abortion. He opposes abortion on demand, and he opposes using tax dollars to pay for abortion. And Scott supports the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act – legislation to protect unborn children by prohibiting abortion at 20 weeks, a point by which the unborn child is capable of experiencing great pain when being killed by dismemberment or other late abortion methods.

“National Right to Life looks forward to working with Rick Scott in the U.S. Senate to advance life-affirming, pro-life policies that protect unborn children and their mothers,” said Tobias.

Founded in 1968, the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), the federation of 50 state right-to-life affiliates and more than 3,000 local chapters, is the nation's oldest and largest grassroots pro-life organization. Recognized as the flagship of the pro-life movement, NRLC works through legislation and education to protect innocent human life from abortion, infanticide, assisted suicide and euthanasia.

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