[TheFourthMagi]

During the campaign Obama attempted to reassure Christians who were concerned about supporting a pro-choice candidate by talking about his commitment to seek “abortion reduction” once in office. Surely, he said, pro-lifers and pro-choicers can agree on this goal, set aside their differences, and work together. We all want to reduce abortion, right?

"Reduce the number of abortions" has become the primary euphemism used to mean "keep abortion 100% legal under all circumstances while spouting lots of platitudes".

[wagglebee]

In the entire abortion debate, “abortion reduction” is the most logically untenable.

If there is nothing wrong with abortion (e.g. it’s not a baby, it’s not murder) and it’s a “harmless” procedure, then there is NO REASON to reduce the number of abortions.

If it is a baby and it is murder and it’s not harmless, then the ONLY ACCEPTABLE solution is TOTAL ELIMINATION.

As much as some people resist the idea, the fact remains that there are moral issues that have NO GRAY AREAS, just right and wrong and sooner or later these issues must be confronted.

America spent half a century trying to “reduce” slavery and many believed that this would allow America to avoid confronting the issue, all it did was make the issue worse and it caused a war which resulted in the deaths of over 600,000 Americans and untold real and emotional damage.