Abortion issue galvanizes voters in battleground Ohio [View all]

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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-abortion-20121104,0,2991763.story

Religious activists are spurred to campaign in support of Republican Mitt Romney. 'I'm more jazzed up this year than any other election year,' says one.

By Alana Semuels, Los Angeles Times
November 4, 2012, 1:05 a.m.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Mary Wright has been a devout Catholic and a Democrat her whole life, both erecting Obama signs in her yard and giving out communion in her parish. It never felt like a conflict to her, until this year.

That's because she recently received a letter from a fellow parishioner targeting her for her support of President Obama.

"I don't really know you," it said, "but I wonder how you can support a president who has attacked our church, and supports abortion on demand for all nine months of pregnancy."

As Wright has discovered, it's nearly impossible to spend time in Ohio this election year without noticing a surge of activity from Mitt Romney supporters and canvassers who say that values and abortion issues are paramount. Signs near highways encourage voters to stand up for religious freedom, newspaper ads slam Obama on abortion, and cars parked in the vicinity of Republican rallies are plastered with antiabortion literature.

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