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If elected president in November, Barack Obama will go to the White House with the most radical view of abortion in our country’s history. Apparently he’s not ashamed of it.

Obama has launched an attack ad against his Republican rival featuring a female voice who says, “We can’t let John McCain take away our right to choose.” The ad comes as a surprise because abortion has not played a significant role for Democrats in the 2008 race. It was hardly mentioned at their convention last week.

Traditionally, these issues motivate conservatives. That was the case with gay marriage in 2004, when a ballot measure in Ohio helped tilt the state to President Bush.

Obama’s attack surprised me even more because of his out-of-the-mainstream views on the issue. A recent ABC News poll found 76% of those surveyed don’t agree with Obama’s position.

David Freddoso, author of “The Case Against Barack Obama,” outlined in a National Review Online article the radical degree of Obama’s support for abortion.

Most people, whatever their view on abortion, agree that the Constitution at least guarantees the rights of born and living human beings. Barack Obama does not agree. For him, the Constitution exists primarily in order to guarantee the right to abortion, and other rights of human persons — born and alive — are secondary. Beginning with abortion rights as his premise, he draws as his conclusion the unfortunate but necessary legality of infanticide.

Let’s not forget this is the man who also said he didn’t want his daughters “punished with a baby.” That’s a stark contrast to McCain and Sarah Palin, a woman bravely rejects the culture of death.

With any luck, Obama’s attacks on McCain will backfire. The evangelical voters who Obama has courted should see through his rhetoric and examine his pro-abortion record.