What can the government do to help Pro-Choice and Anti-Abortion groups find common ground?
I think the issue needs to be refocused. There will never be common ground about abortion because the convictions behind it are far too strong and opposite to each other. But I think most sides can agree that abortions can and should be prevented. I think the discourse should focus on preventing abortions. Both sides can find common ground if the discourse shifts. People talk so much crap about the legality of abortion and don’t realize that if we focused more energy on family planning many abortions could be prevented. It’s a matter of agreeing to disagree and find a common goal: preventing unwanted pregnancies. The past administration obviously was anti-abortion. The Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act was catastrophic for women’s health rights as it banned an abortion procedure at a federal level. And Bush did his best to appoint anti-abortion judges to the Supreme Court like Alito, who replaced O’Connor. This served him well because in 2007 the court reviewed the ban and ruled its const
