Obama Trying to Appease on Abortion Issues

By Rob Stein

Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, February 6, 2009; Page A05

President Obama is trying to blunt the edge of perhaps the sharpest, most divisive wedge issue in the country: abortion. In a series of moves, he is attempting to nudge the debate away from the morality and legality of abortion and toward a goal he hopes both sides can endorse: decreasing the number of women who terminate their pregnancies by addressing the reasons they might choose the procedure. LINK

This is the President i voted for, most of you know im strictly anti-abortion but you also may realize by now im also completely pro-contraception. This is one of those issues that worried me when i cast my vote for President Obama, in the past his stand on this issue has been so-so and i just wasnt sure he would keep his word once in office.  Fortunately he is more then keeping his word at least partially on this debate.  Ive heard about his funding for foreign groups that provide abortion and no im not happy about it but i realize there is more to that story then just abortion, its one of those issues that you have to accept the bad with the good and he really couldnt get around it.  On the other hand he recently called for the senate to remove the expansion of medicaid services to cover abortions out of the stimulus package. Im sure he got a lot of flack from pro-choicers on that one but the government has no business funding abortion and considering his words to us pro-lifers during his campaign days he would be going against his words if he allowed it.It seems as if President Obama understands that the abortion issue will never end because those for and against all have valid reasons they support or dont support abortions, to me its a life to someone else its a group of cells and no matter how long or hard we debate those views are not going to change so the only logical reasonable way around the abortion issue is to prevent unwanted pregnancies in the first place and thats a whole different debate.