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NARAL Picks Obama, And Uproar Breaks Out
International Herald Tribune
The decision by a major abortion-rights group to endorse Senator Barack Obama has created an uproar among some of its affiliates and other abortion-rights advocates. Many said that Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton had as good a record on reproductive rights as Obama and that there was no need to take sides in the Democrat primary. The endorsement by the group, Naral Pro-Choice America, which was announced Wednesday, came as a blow to the Clinton campaign. Clinton, who had the support of the group throughout her political career, told NBC News on Wednesday that not getting the Naral nod was a disappointment.
Abortion-Rights Group Faces Backlash After Obama Endorsement
Chronicle of Philanthropy
NARAL Pro-Choice America, the abortion-rights group, is feeling a backlash after endorsing Barack Obama for president on Wednesday. Allison Fine, author of A. Fine Blog, writes that "e-mails started to fly around yesterday" from supporters of Hillary Clinton, who is challenging Mr. Obama for the Democrat nomination. "In pained tones the senders, my circle of Hillary supporters, expressed their shock that one of the preeminent pro-choice organizations, one that they have supported in good times and bad, had double-crossed them in the eleventh hour of the presidential campaign."