"The election forces the pro-life movement to go back to what we do best — local grass-roots organizing," said the Rev. Patrick J. Mahoney, director of the Christian Defense Coalition. "We will not go silently into the night."

From an AP story carried on Yahoo: just because they got beat in California, the anti-choice groups aren't through. They want to make sure you know they're still angry.

Priests for Life (how's that for irony?) has a spokesman named Frank Pavone. He wants to remind the nation that the adoption or single motherhood is still preferable to abortion in the view of the church.

California voters opted for choice. South Dakota voters, for the second time, rejected a ban on all abortions. Colorado handed the anti-choice activists another defeat last Tuesday as well.

But Pavone's comment is most telling:

Under a Democratic-led government, abortion-rights supporters will call on conservatives to join in an effort to reduce abortions by reducing unintended pregnancies. Anti-abortion leaders say they are unwilling to do this if it means abandoning their abstinence-only approach and supporting greater access to birth control for unmarried women.

"We have a totally different view from other side in how we look at sexuality," said Pavone. "That's where there's no common ground."

It's really not about the babies. Who'd have thought?