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The nation’s leading Pro Choice group has endorsed Barack Obama.

I guess that makes them “misogynists” too…

From the LA Times:

Barack Obama wins the nod from NARAL

Amid minor movement today among Democratic superdelegates – so far, Barack Obama has picked up 2 1/2 votes [UPDATE: make that 3 1/2] and Hillary Clinton, one – Obama scored a coup with an endorsement from the nation’s foremost abortion rights advocacy group.

In a news release, the political action committee for NARAL Pro-Choice America had kind words for Clinton but annoounded its backing for Obama, citing its reading of the status of the Democratic presidential race.

“Today, we are proud to put our organization’s grass-roots and political support behind the pro-choice candidate whom we believe will secure the Democratic nomination and advance to the general election,” NARAL’s president said in the release. “That candidate is Sen. Obama.

Clinton’s chief spokesman, Howard Wolfson, expressed “surprise” over the endorsement during a conference call with reporters (including The Times’ Noam N. Levey).