{"id":12914,"date":"2009-05-20T23:26:39","date_gmt":"2009-05-20T23:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_vatican_notes_obamas_search_for_common_ground_on_abortion\/"},"modified":"2009-05-20T23:26:39","modified_gmt":"2009-05-20T23:26:39","slug":"rns_vatican_notes_obamas_search_for_common_ground_on_abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12914","title":{"rendered":"RNS: Vatican Notes Obama&#39;s Search for &#39;Common Ground&#39; on Abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Vatican\u2019s official newspaper called President Obama\u2019s commencement speech at the University of Notre Dame on Sunday (May 17) part of his \u201csearch for common ground\u201d\u009d with opponents of legalized abortion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe search for common ground: this seems to be the path chosen by the president of the United States, Barack Obama, to face the delicate question of abortion,\u201d\u009d said an unsigned article in the Monday (May 18) edition of L\u2019Osservatore Romano.<\/p>\n<p>The paper said that Obama\u2019s Notre Dame speech \u201cconfirmed what he expressed at the press conference marking his first 100 days in the White House,\u201d\u009d when he said that the Freedom of Choice Act, which would remove restrictions on abortion, was \u201cnot my highest legislative priority.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicsdaily.com\/news.php?viewStory=14241\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vatican\u2019s official newspaper called President Obama\u2019s commencement speech at the University of Notre Dame on Sunday (May 17) part of his \u201csearch for common ground\u201d\u009d with opponents of legalized abortion. \u201cThe search for common ground: this seems to be<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12914\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,42,96,616,154,151,636,667,108,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-religion-news-commentary","category-life-ethics","category-office-of-the-president","category-other-churches","category-politics-in-general","category-pope-benedict-xvi","category-president-barack-obama","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}