Nancy Pelosi will relinquish her role as Speaker of the House of Representatives in the next Congress after her party was shellacked in Tuesday’s midterm elections. But she wants to remain Democratic leader.

Pelosi says she will wage a battle to continue leading the party, which became even more pro-abortion following the defeat of some of its pro-life members who voted for the abortion-funding ObamaCare bill.

Some political observers predicted she would step aside and let someone else run the party in the House after her election failure, but she said she’s “gotten a positive response” in calls to fellow Democrats...