Obama calls for 'fair-minded' abortion debate

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"WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama strode head-on Sunday into the stormy abortion debate and told graduates at America's leading Roman Catholic university that both sides must stop demonizing one another.

Obama acknowledged that "no matter how much we want to fudge it ... the fact is that at some level, the views of the two camps are irreconcilable." But he still implored the University of Notre Dame's graduating class and all in the U.S. to stop "reducing those with differing views to caricature. Open hearts. Open minds. Fair-minded words. It's a way of life that always has been the Notre Dame tradition."


From about the middle of the article;

The president ceded no ground on abortion. But he said those on each side of the debate "can still agree that this is a heart-wrenching decision for any woman to make, with both moral and spiritual dimensions.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30782728?GT1=43001

I want to say flat out I'm very happy we have a pro-choice president. Period.

I also want to acknowledge that some women do NOT agonize over the decision to terminate a pregnancy. They see it as a private medical procedure.

In a similar vein, I work with a young nurse who is pregnant--this is a wanted and worked for pregnancy-- the fertility issues were on the male side of the equation. She's not excited. She has doubts. She's not planning at this time to do it again. Her husband doesn't quite understand why she isn't spending every waking moment anticipating the birth. This particular young woman is very rational and strong minded and knows what she knows about her body and how she feels. She knows she'll love the infant when it's born. The pregnancy has been nothing but misery so far for her. Thank God she knows it's perfectly normal to feel the way she feels.