Election Reflection #1: America Votes For Choice

by Jen Nedeau · 2008-11-06 15:28:00 UTC
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With Obama's win of the Presidency this week also came many great victories for the women's rights movement.

As final results are tallied and delivered to the American people, I will be covering how this election pushed the women's rights movement forward, but also how it failed the electorate in certain cases such as the passage of Proposition 8 in California.

NARAL Pro-Choice America, the nation's leading non-partisan pro-choice political organization, was the first major pro-choice PAC to endorse Barack Obama for president and offers these encouraging statistics about how the country not only elected a pro-choice President, but also earned a net gain of 16 fully pro-choice members in the House, and moved five Senate seats out of the anti-choice column.

Choice Composition of the 110th Congress

Pro-Choice

Mixed-Choice

Anti-Choice
House *

165

50

220
Senate

35

17

48

* For comparison purposes only, House number includes former Rep. Tubbs Jones.

Projected Choice Composition: the 111th Congress

Pro-Choice

Mixed-Choice

Anti-Choice
House *

181

47

207
Senate *

38

19

43

* For comparison purposes only, House number includes Reps. Jefferson and McCrery (election occurring December 6) and Senate number includes Sens. Obama and Biden.

Net Change in Choice Composition

Pro-Choice

Mixed-Choice

Anti-Choice
House

+16

-3

-13
Senate

+3

+2

-5

By Percentage

Pro-Choice

Mixed-Choice

Anti-Choice
110th House

38%

11%

51%
111th House

42%

11%

48%

110th Senate

35%

17%

48%
111th Senate

38%

19%

43%

Jen Nedeau Jen Nedeau is a media relations professional and a writer based in New York City.
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