I don't know about the abortion part, but I do remember reading something in the NYTs about Kelly supporting Obama. Obama made a campaign stop at UC back in 2008 - Kelly may have been on the stage with him.
If Kelly acts and sounds like a politician, it’s because at heart he is one. The son of an alderman, he grew up north of Boston, in a family obsessed with politics. He was a captain of the Assumption College football team and later an assistant coach at the Massachusetts school, but he also dabbled in politics, working for a state senator and on Gary Hart’s 1984 presidential campaign. (Kelly has fond memories of driving Hart around Boston in his Ford Escort.) But Kelly isn’t just good on the stump. He is also regarded as one of the game’s brightest minds, an innovator who has transformed the Bearcats’ offense—a high-octane unit that scored its four TDs against Fresno State on drives lasting 2:12, 1:43, 2:53 and 1:45, none covering less than 71 yards—into one of the country’s most dynamic. Kelly is constantly scribbling new plays in the spiral notebooks he carries everywhere (”I have a basement full of them,” he says) and is always itching to add a wrinkle to a play. One day during practice last season Pike was standing on the sideline when Kelly walked over madly doodling in a notebook. “The idea was a version of a screen to [wideout] Mardy Gilyard, but he wanted a quick catch-and-throw where we’d let the defense through the line and our linemen get to the second level,” says Pike. That week Cincinnati used the play against Miami of Ohio, and Gilyard scored. “I can’t even count how many times we’ve scored on that play since then,” says Pike.