Conciliatory gestures only go so far

Obama has been talking about abortion reduction and promoting conciliatory gestures and common ground. Does that mean abortion wars are over? Um… no. However, you might need a secret decoder ring to keep score. Yes, everyone is for abortion reduction. But the left talks about "reducing the need for abortion" and the right splits hairs talking about "reducing the number of abortions." Run that through your secret decoder ring and the translation is this: The left wants to change abortion demand and the right wants to change abortion supply. Both have the same implications on policy the older and louder debate had. And neither resonates much beyond Washington, where Americans approve legal abortion by 54%, the same percentage as a decade ago.