The stakes are high in the upcoming November election. In this article by our guest author, Warren Cole Smith, we learn of bad news, but also good news in the battle against abortion.

Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, plans to spend $10 million to help elect pro-abortion candidates to Congress and the White House in November, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Emily’s List, a group that supports pro-abortion female Democrats, hopes to raise more than $46 million for the election. Another pro-abortion organization, NARAL Pro-Choice America, plans to spend $10 million.

“Pro-abortion groups like Planned Parenthood recognize that the pro-abortion message continues to lose ground in the culture,” said Carrie Gordon Earll, senior bioethics analyst for Focus on the Family Action. “They also know that the outcome of the presidential race, coupled with the composition of the U.S. Senate, will determine the direction of the U.S. Supreme Court for the next two decades.

“The stakes are high, so I’m not surprised by a multimillion-dollar investment,” she said. “But even money cannot give credibility to a bankrupt message of death, and that’s ultimately all they have to offer.”

Planned Parenthood is already raking in record amounts of taxpayer-funded subsidies (over $305 million in 2006) and record-high revenues (close to $900 million in 2006).

Christian activist Gary Bauer said the activism of the organization is “not surprising. There’s been good news recently for the pro-life cause. Polls show America’s youth are increasingly pro-life compared with their parents’ and grandparents’ generations. And In 2007, some 400 bills related to abortion were considered by state legislatures, a more than 50 percent increase from 2006.” Last week, the Alan Guttmacher Institute, Planned Parenthood’s research wing, released data showing a 25 percent decline in the number of abortions since 1990, to the lowest point in 30 years.

All this is good news for pro-life activists, but not for Planned Parenthood, which derives most of its revenue from abortion.