Obama At Notre Dame

It takes a certain, unique and special kind of evil to not want to protect something as precious as a newborn child.

President Barack Obama confronted the abortion debate head-on Sunday at Notre Dame, acknowledging that differences over the issue are largely irreconcilable but appealing to both sides to search for “common ground.”

“I do not suggest that the debate surrounding abortion can or should go away,” Obama said in a commencement address. “Because no matter how much we may want to fudge it — indeed, while we know that the views of most Americans on the subject are complex and even contradictory — the fact is that at some level, the views of the two camps are irreconcilable.”

But this issue goes far beyond just abortion. For those in the pro-life camp, the issue is not what some folks call "reproductive choice". Science will prove that where there is conception, reproduction has already taken place, no choice about it.
The main issue is 'person hood', when person hood begins, and when the rights of one individual supercede those of another.
In short, it's a matter of social justice every bit as much as the issue of slavery was.

What really frosts so many of us right-minded folks on the pro-life side of the divide is not just Obama's support for abortion at any time, anywhere, for any reason.
It's is his continued and repeated support of killing children who have already been born. This is not abortion any more. The baby is born, breathing, and, according to the logic of those who claim person hood begins at birth, a live human being.

Obama made the call for “common ground” three times and said that only comes “when we open our hearts and our minds to those who may not think precisely like we do or believe precisely what we believe.”

If Obama wants to find common ground, he'd better start walking. If he wants to "open hearts", he can start with his own.