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During a star-studded “teletownhall” meeting Wednesday, U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann joined North Carolina Rep. Virginia Foxx, former Colorado Rep. Marilyn Musgrave and others to discuss health care reform. Urging listeners — estimated at 35,000 people by organizers — to pray and fast in order to defeat health care, Bachmann managed to distinguish herself during the 90-minute phone call.

Michele Bachmann will address a “teletownhall” meeting this evening with anti-abortion activists from across the country. The event, billed “Keeping the Faith with the Unborn,” is sponsored by the Susan B. Anthony List, an anti-abortion advocacy group. The organization claims that 320,000 pro-life activists have been invited to participate in a discussion of health-care reform. [...]

With a week to go until the election, Minnesota is seeing a flurry of activity by religious right figures. Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council is blasting Republicans for not standing up for their favored candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann, while the Council is using MnIndy’s reporting to attack DFL candidates. Right-wing bloggers are up in arms over the cancellation of a speech by pro-life activist Bay Buchanan at the College of St. Catherine, and a national anti-abortion group is flooding Minnesota mailboxes with anti-Obama literature.

The anti-abortion Susan B. Anthony List, the religious right’s answer to the abortion rights group Emily’s list, has bought up time on Minnesota Christian radio stations to run ads attacking Al Franken. Interestingly, pro-life DFLer Rep. James Oberstar sits on the group’s advisory committee.

The ads say, in part (MP3):

In Minnesota, 39 innocent children are lost every day, 39 children every day. And what does comedian Al Franken want to do about it? Nothing. Franken says he supports abortion on demand. It’s no wonder radical pro-abortion groups have embraced Al Franken. They want to overturn the ban on gruesome partial birth abortions, force you to pay for abortions with your tax dollars, and allow young girls to get abortions without their parents consent. Al Franken and his allies are wrong. Call Al Franken right now at 612-344-2008 and tell him MN deserves leaders we can trust to protect life. tell him every life counts and this is no laughing matter.