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Abortion Activists Split Over Obama Comment

Remarks on late-term exceptions draw ire, support

By Jonas Oransky, Newser Staff

Posted Jul 10, 2008 3:07 PM CDT

(Newser) – A brief budge from a purely pro-choice position by Barack Obama last week drew a heavy round of responses from the reproductive-rights crowd, Politico notes. The blowback came after Obama said to a Christian magazine that health exceptions to a late-term abortion ban shouldn’t... Read full story »

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