A remarkable trend has emerged in the results of the recent American election for the Senate and the House of Representatives: never before have so many pro-life political women been elected to office. In the Senate, six pro-life women will serve for the incoming Congress (with a possible seventh, if Kelly Loeffler from Georgia wins a run-off in a second voting round in early January). In the House, all 11 sitting pro-life women candidates were returned, with at least 17 new pro-life women added. Nine have overturned seats previously held by abortion rights politicians. In California, Young Kim won in Orange County – the first Korean-American to serve from that state. The majority, although not all, of these female politicians are Republican. Katrina Jackson, a Democrat who is strongly associated with the pro-life cause, won a seat in the Louisiana state senate. New York is famously liberal, but in South Brooklyn, Nicole Malliotakis “flipped” a Democrat seat for Congress. Ms Malliotakis – just 40 – is regarded as a rising star and could be a future White House contender. She has said that “faith values played a huge role” in her success. Her father is Greek Orthodox, and her mother a Cuban Catholic, but she received electoral support from religious communities across the board, including Orthodox Jews. This surge in pro-life women getting elected has been substantially supported by an enterprising initiative called “The Susan B Anthony List” which sponsors women politicians with prolife views. It was originally set up because a previous lobbying group for women, “Emily’s List”, excluded prolife women. (The British version of “Emily’s List”, launched by Barbara Follett, effectively excluded Catholics.) Susan B Anthony was an early feminist, in the days when the movement drew on its Christian and anti-slavery roots. The SBA list was founded in 1993 by the sociologist Rachel McNair , and is today headed by Marjorie Dannenfelser and Jane Abraham. It’s been energetically supported by the indispensable New York-based Human Life Review, edited by Maria McFadden Maffucci and Anne Conlon – in an all-woman editorial operation (for the Human Life Foundation). Amy Coney Barrett, the newly appointed pro-life judge in the Supreme Court, and mother of seven, was also supported by the HLR, as the ultimate “working mom”. This is a form of pro-life feminism we don’t hear much about on this side of the Atlantic, but Stateside, it’s evidently flourishing.