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A new pro-life 527 group, BornAliveTruth.org, has hit the airwaves with a TV spot (subscription) attacking Barack Obama for his votes against the Born-Alive Infant Protection Act in the Illinois state Senate.

The spot -- running in New Mexico and Ohio with $350,000 behind it and the possibility of an expanded campaign later on -- features Gianna Jessen, a 31-year old woman who survived a botched abortion attempt. “Can you imagine not giving babies their basic human rights, no matter how they entered our world?” she asks. "If Barack Obama had his way, I wouldn’t be here.”

Jessen is referring to a series of votes Obama made in the Illinois Senate against a bill that would have required doctors to provide medical care to fetuses that survive late-term abortions.

An Obama campaign spokesman declined to comment on the ad, but in the past, Obama and pro-choice advocates have argued that the bill would have undermined Roe v. Wade. They have also pointed out that physicians were already required under state law to preserve the life and health of any fetus surviving an abortion.

Jessen, a vocalist and motivational speaker, is a familiar face in pro-life circles, thanks in part to a controversial appearance (subscription) at the Colorado state legislature on the day the House was considering honoring Planned Parenthood.

Nor is this the first foray into politics for BornAliveTruth.org's executive director, Jill Stanek. A registered nurse, Stanek campaigned against Obama during his 2004 Senate run on this same issue and maintains an influential anti-abortion blog. Hardly one to mince words (she once labeled Michael J. Fox a "cannibal" for his support of stem cell research), Stanek said in an interview that Obama "endorses fourth-trimester abortions -- infanticide.”