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Article: NOW Again Attacks Obama's Illinois Voting Record on Abortion Bills
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- February 5, 2008
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A national women's rights group supporting Sen. Hillary Rodham
Clinton (D-N.Y.) distributed an e-mail yesterday accusing Sen.
Barack Obama (D-Ill.) of being soft on abortion rights, revisiting
an eleventh-hour attack that some analysts credited with swaying
female voters in New Hampshire.
The e-mail from Rosemary J. Dempsey, president of the Connecticut
National Organization for Women, told members that Obama's record
during his time in the Illinois Senate included several instances in
which he voted "present" instead of yes or no on abortion-related
legislation.
The e-mail quotes Bonnie Grabenhofer, the president of Illinois
NOW, as saying that "voting present on those bills was a strategy ...