We Need to "Refudiate" Sarah Palin

Ted Miller is the director of communications and online advocacy strategies for NARAL Pro-Choice America.

Please, allow us to "refudiate" Sarah Palin. She's weighing in on the U.S. Senate race in New Hampshire, and she's playing with the facts.

Her description of anti-choice Senate candidate Kelly Ayotte's record requires clarification. When endorsing Ayotte, Palin wrote that, as attorney general, Ayotte "battled all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court to protect the rights of New Hampshire parents - and won!" Well, that statement is a surprise to the Supreme Court justices who voted to send Ayotte's case back to a lower court. In short, she didn't win. She didn't even come close.

Furthermore, the law in question was repealed by a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers in New Hampshire about a year after Ayotte failed to make her case before the Supreme Court.

I know, surprise, surprise. Palin is living in her made-up reality. But, this is important. We can't let Palin manufacture distortions about Ayotte's record in the same way she comes up with words that don't appear in the dictionary.

What's the theme here? Well, it's two fold.

First, Granite State voters need to know that Ayotte is on Palin's list, which is way out of the mainstream in a state that gets an A- when it comes to protecting choice. New Hampshire voters like their freedom to make the personal, private decisions that are best for them and their families. Yes, these values include protecting women's access to safe, legal abortion care.

Second, voters have a chance to uphold the state's tradition of standing up for individual freedom and privacy by electing Rep. Paul Hodes as their next U.S. senator. Rep. Hodes has been a great champion of choice since he first won election to the House in 2006. He fought against the Bush administration's dangerous and ineffective "abstinence-only" policies. We know he'll make a great senator. In fact, our PAC endorsed him.

Ayotte lost once before the Supreme Court, and we look forward to making sure she loses once again at the ballot box in November. Go, Hodes!

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