Rove Urges Abortion Foes into Battle

ABC's Lisa Chinn reports: Former presidential aide Karl Rove asked abortion opponents to "talk to the undecideds," in order to defeat Democrat Barack Obama -- echoing Abraham Lincoln's advice to the Whig Party in the election of 1844. In a speech at the National Right to Life Committee's 36th Annual Convention, the political strategist who led President George Bush's two presidential campaigns, painted presumptive Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama as a supporter of abortion rights who has "got a record on abortion that's pretty big in a short amount of time." Rove enumerated a number of votes Obama made in both the U.S. Senate and in the Illinois State Senate, including votes on parental notification (no), stem cell research (yes), and the nominations of conservative Supreme Court Justices John Roberts and Samuel Alito (no... [read full story]