AND THEN THE SHADOW OF MOLOCH DARKENED THE ROOM:

In the President's Hunt for 'Common Ground' on Abortion, a Fault Line Emerges (Jake Tapper, May 22, 2009, ABC News: Political Punch)

The goal, as President Obama said on Sunday in his address at Notre Dame, is, "Let’s work together to reduce the number of women seeking abortions by reducing unintended pregnancies and making adoption more available, and providing care and support for women who do carry their child to term.”

Today, however, one of the conservative activists attending these meetings said she didn't buy it, and she wrote about the meetings about which many attendees had been asked not to share details. (Wright said no one told her to keep information from the meetings confidential.) [...]

Writing at the conservative Web site Human Events, Wright recounts the meeting in an essay titled, "Obama Aide: Not Our Goal to Reduce Abortions."

Barnes led the meeting and as "the dialogue wound down, she asked for my input," Wright writes. "I noted that there are three main ways the administration can reach its goals: by what it funds, its messages from the bully pulpit, and by what it restricts. It is universally agreed that the role of parents is crucial, so government should not deny parents the ability to be involved in vital decisions. The goals need to be clear; the amount of funding spent to reduce unintended pregnancies and abortions is not a goal. The U.S. spends nearly $2 billion each year on contraception programs -- programs which began in the 1970s -- and they’ve clearly failed. We need to take an honest look at why they are not working."

Wright writes, "Melody testily interrupted to state that she had to correct me. 'It is not our goal to reduce the number of abortions.' The room was silent. The goal, she insisted, is to 'reduce the need for abortions.'"

Oops, that's a tad too truthful.

Posted by Orrin Judd at May 23, 2009 7:30 AM