Abortion Rights Group Withdraws Anti-Roberts Ad
Organization's Allies Among Critics of NARAL Commercial
By Dan BalzWashington Post Staff Writer
Friday, August 12, 2005; Page A03

Under pressure from conservative groups and some abortion rights advocates, the president of NARAL Pro-Choice America announced last night that the organization will pull a controversial ad attacking Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. and replace it with a new commercial looking more broadly at Roberts's record.

The decision came after days of criticism that the ad was a flagrant distortion of the record, and hours after Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), a supporter of abortion rights, urged the group in a letter to cancel the ad. He called it "blatantly untrue" and said that by running it, NARAL "undercuts its credibility and injures the pro-choice cause."

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