Obama responds to criticism of his abortion votes

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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/washington/AP-Obama-Abortion-Ad.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Democrat Barack Obama is airing a new ad in New Mexico and Ohio that defends his abortion rights record and says Republican rival John McCain backs a party platform that would deny abortions to victims of rape and incest.

Obama's ad answers an independent ad campaign, financed by an anti-abortion philanthropist, that singles out Obama's efforts in the Illinois Senate to defeat the Born Alive Infants Protection Act.

''Now votes taken out of context, accusing Obama of letting infants die? It's a despicable lie,'' Obama's ad states.

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''McCain, he's running on a platform to ban abortion, even in cases of rape and incest,'' Obama's ad says. ''Sleazy ads, anti-choice, that's John McCain.''