Higher Ground  The murder, just two weeks ago, of abortion
provider Dr. George Tiller has deeply wounded and enraged the
pro-choice community while also, some would argue, providing it
with further reason to mistrust pro-life activists. Perhaps a
different kind of wound has been inflicted on the pro-life side,
and in particular on those moderates who dislike abortion, but
don’t tolerate violence, which includes most of the pro-life
movement and public. Now they are sometimes treated as if they,
too, are extremists.       And so, in the aftermath of this
senseless attack we risk losing something else dear, the
momentum of the growing common ground movement; the search for a
different, more constructive way forward in the abortion debate.
Shortly before Dr. Tiller’s murder, President Obama had just
begun to usher this movement through the White House doors. His
appointees had started calling together leaders from both sides
to sit at the same table. His argument has been that the two
sides can disagree sharply