Obama Camp Condemns 2nd Romney Sen. Ad Backing Candidate W/ Controversial Position On Rape, Abortion

Source: TPM

BOSTON — A day after Mitt Romney went on the air with only his second ad backing a Senate candidate, the Obama campaign is again saying his decision shows he stands with the extreme right when it comes to abortion rights.

Romney took flak from women’s groups, Democrats and Team Obama when he stood by Richard Mourdock in Indiana following that Senate nominee’s comments about rape, conception and God’s will. Now it seems he’s in the same boat again after cutting an ad for North Dakota Rep. Rick Berg (R), who as a state legislator voted for a bill that would have made getting an abortion a class AA felony, meaning rape and incest victims caught getting one would be subject to a sentence of life behind bars.

Berg’s 2007 vote in the state legislature for H.B. 1489 has been part of the national coverage of the North Dakota Senate race since September, when it popped up in the fallout after Rep. Todd Akin’s (R) “legitimate rape” comments in the Missouri Senate fight. But Romney’s decision to cut an ad for Berg that appeared on Saturday put the North Dakotan’s vote back in the national spotlight.

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“Voters should take note that at the same time Mitt Romney is promising ‘bipartisanship’ on the campaign trail, he’s taping ads for candidates like Richard Mourdock and Rick Berg, who believes that rape victims who get abortions should face life imprisonment,” Lis Smith, a spokesperson for the Obama campaign, said in a statement. “Purposefully building an even more divisive and extreme Republican Party in Washington only means more partisanship and a bigger rubber stamp for the Tea Party agenda.”

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