You're missing the point. Abortion obviously can't be a campaign issue for either woman, but the press will make sure that everybody knows Dr. Rice is pro abortion. That will be enough to turn off the 1-2% of voters needed to give the Democrats the election. Incidently, Senator Clinton is not "pro-life." She has the same outlook as rice ("safe, legal & rare"). Think any liberals are going to defect to Rice over that one?
Even St. President Bush is "pro-life" but what has he proposed 5 years in office to end abortion as we know it besides outlawing partial-birth abortions? Even many "pro-choice" democRats oppose PBA's. President Bush has ducked the issue entirely except with his nominees to the Supreme Court. I would expect Dr. Rice to do the same.
Abortion is a dead issue in campaigns. Changes will occur only through the SCOTUS and the states. Pro-lifers (and I include myself as one) are wasting time and votes using a pro-life stance as a litmus test for voting for candidates- especially when we refer to a pro-choice Republican as "pro-abortion".
No one is as sorry as I am that this is the case, but this is reality.