Republican U.S. Senate candidate Alan Keyes said Monday that women who choose to undergo abortions and the physicians who perform the procedure are essentially terrorists because "the evil is the same."
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The Rev. Jerry Falwell, days after Sept. 11, said "the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians . . . 'You helped this happen.' " His remarks drew sharp criticism from the White House, and Falwell later publicly apologized.

Keyes, through a spokesman, said late Monday he does not support reparations if other people's money is used. "If you couldn't get the income tax abolished totally, that [exemption for slave descendants] is incremental progress," spokesman Bill Pascoe said.

Obama said Monday he did not support reparations. Instead, he said he favored "investments" that would benefit all Americans who are struggling. "Things like early childhood education, job training, college scholarships, provide opportunity to all people," Obama said. "I'm just in favor of investments of people in need and struggling."

He has unleashed a steady stream of strident invective against Obama, who supports abortion rights. Keyes argues that women who claim they have rights over the fetuses in their bodies are akin to plantation owners claiming control over slaves because they are "property."

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