The Pres has gone to Notre Dame, the biggest and oldest Catholic University in the U.S., to give a commencement speech. Due to their disagreement with his stance on abortion, evangelicals and those Catholics who attend mass regularly are marking the occasion with protests; no surprise there. What is surprising to me, well not so much surprising as confusing, is Mr. Obama's plea for common ground on this issue. There is no common ground here: you are either pro abortion or anti abortion. Using the words "life" and "partial-birth" changes nothing; you are either for the the right of a woman to choose or you are not.
I don't know where Mr. Obama thinks he has rhetorical wiggle room here. If the discussion is to be centered on one's view of when life begins, it is non-starter; and that is the starting point for the anti-abortion camp. They believe that life begins at conception; some even believing that it is a mortal sin to put a barrier between ovum and sperm. Given such views, discussion is a non-starter since these people are not willing to discuss abortion in any other context.
Good luck on that one Mr. Pres. ...Though I guess that by "discussion" you mean the usual bickering amongst the members of congress... May the wiggling begin...
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