I suspect pro-choice groups would favor a referendum. Not that it's any stranger's business what a woman chooses to do in such situations

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A leading abortion advocacy group is coming to the aid of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry in the wake of television and radio ads from the Bush campaign that criticize Kerry's pro-abortion voting record.

President Bush's re-election campaign has been running ads that take Kerry to task for voting against parental notification legislation and a bill to protect pregnant women from violent assaults. They imply that Kerry voting record is out of the mainstream.

But NARAL, a leading pro-abortion group, says it is Bush, not Kerry, whose position is at odds with most voters.

"George Bush is making a desperate attempt to distract Americans from his radical record and dangerous views on reproductive rights issues," NARAL's interim president Elizabeth Cavendish said. "Bush's real position is clear -- he has never backed away from his vow to 'do everything in my power' to take away a woman's right to choose."

NARAL cites a July 2004 Catholics for a Free Choice poll and a June 2003 NARAL survey that claim 60 percent of Catholic voters favor legal abortion and 80 percent of voters believe abortion should be a decision made between a woman and her doctor.

However, those surveys are anomalies and contradict most polls that show a majority of Americans -- including women and Catholics -- are pro-life.