John Roberts Watch: NARAL Withdraws Ad

Flap previously covered the NARAL debacle of an ad, John Roberts Watch: CNN to Air Bloody Abortion Clinic Ad.

But, now they have withdrawn it. Fox News has NARAL Withdraws Anti-Roberts Ad.

After a week of protests by conservatives, an abortion-rights group said Thursday night it is withdrawing a television advertisement linking Supreme Court nominee John Roberts to violent anti-abortion activists.

“We regret that many people have misconstrued our recent advertisement about Mr. Roberts’ record,” said Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America.

“Unfortunately, the debate over that advertisement has become a distraction from the serious discussion we hoped to have with the American public,” she said in a letter Thursday to Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., who had urged the group to withdraw the ad.

Specter, himself an abortion-rights supporter as well as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee that will question Roberts next month, earlier Thursday had called the ad “blatantly untrue and unfair.”

Don’t worry this is a strategic political move by NARAL.

Unfortunately, we will hear from them again – opposing Judge Roberts.

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