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Is there a middle on abortion?

President Barack Obama's speech at Notre Dame last week was more of a wedding than a commencement: The man married the moment on the abortion issue. Obama issued a decades-old call for common ground, an approach that attracted thunderous applause at this Catholic, and therefore, institutionally pro-life campus. Somehow an old message seemed fresh and attainable coming from our new, pro-choice president....

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