Not to infringe on Joe the Plumber's 15 minutes of fame, but can we reflect for a minute on this response from Sen. Barack Obama during the third and final presidential debate when the issue abortion reared its head:

This is an issue that -- look, it divides us. And in some ways, it may be difficult to -- to reconcile the two views.

But there surely is some common ground when both those who believe in choice and those who are opposed to abortion can come together and say, "We should try to prevent unintended pregnancies by providing appropriate education to our youth, communicating that sexuality is sacred and that they should not be engaged in cavalier activity, and providing options for adoption, and helping single mothers if they want to choose to keep the baby.

Those are all things that we put in the Democratic platform for the first time this year, and I think that's where we can find some common ground, because nobody's pro-abortion. I think it's always a tragic situation.

We should try to reduce these circumstances.

Yes!  Reducing unintended pregnancy!  It's important!  Not just to the women and men who find themselves in situations where there's a pregnancy they weren't planning on, not just important to the children who are borne of these pregnancies and are forced to endure less than ideal conditions both in utero and throughout their lives, but important to a nation of taxpayers, voters, community members, aunts, uncles, grandparents, neighbors, classmates, colleagues and citizens who want this nation to be better, stronger, and populated by people who were wanted and welcomed from the get-go.

Kudos to Sen. Obama for looking for a way to find consensus on an issue known for its ability to divide us.

Now if the candidates would only talk about contraception...

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