Monday, June 15, 2009  Does common ground in the abortion debate
lie in pregnancy prevention?    Can those on either side of the
abortion debate find common ground? Reverend Debra W. Haffner,
of the Religious Institute, seems to think so. Her piece on the
Women's Media Center highlights the area where she thinks we can
find this common ground, and I wholeheartedly agree with her.
While discussing Dr. Tiller's death, she explains:  It's also an
opportunity to reach across the divide on abortion to forge
ahead toward a goal that surely is common ground—to reduce the
need for abortion by reducing the incidence of unwanted
pregnancy. And it's an opportunity to uphold the moral agency of
women in making the decisions that are right for their
individual circumstances. That's how we can honor George Tiller,
whose motto was "trust women."  Reverend Haffner believes that
we need to be focusing on the cause of high abortion rates,
which is unintended pregnancies. She believes that through
comprehensive sex education an