Anti-abortion groups welcome Brown

Scott Brown will join the Senate's small abortion rights Republican caucus -- he supports Roe v. Wade, though he also backs some restrictions on abortion -- but his win is still being welcomed by a long list of anti-abortion groups, whose statements you can read here.

“Martha Coakley’s extreme embrace of abortion may have endeared her to EMILY’s List and the abortion lobby, but it did little to win votes today," said Susan B. Anthony List president Marjorie Dannenfelser, rubbing in the defeat in a race that Coakley tried to make about reproductive rights.

There's a limit to this, of course: Brown shares far more with Coakley than with Dannenfelser, as far as his positions go, and his defense wasn't to reassert anti-abortion values -- it was that he supports abortion rights. The attacks on his mixed position, though, did not have the impact Democrats hoped they would.