Obama's faith-based Innitiative to include "abortion reduction" priority

Initial coverage from WaPo:

President Obama is trying to blunt the edge of perhaps the sharpest, most divisive wedge issue in the country: abortion.

In a series of moves, Obama is attempting to nudge the debate away from the morality and legality of abortion and toward a goal he hopes both sides can endorse: decreasing the number of women who terminate their pregnancies by addressing the reasons they might choose the procedure.

The strategy is being met by deep skepticism from many prominent antiabortion activists, but it has been embraced by some others as well as by leading abortion rights activists, who hope it could fundamentally reshape one of the nation's most intransigent political stalemates

Today, the president announced the creation of a new White House Office on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, which will make abortion reduction one of its priorities.

The devil is completely in the details on this one. I'm extremely pessimistic. So often "abortion reduction" simply means an excuse to fund more distribution of contraception, with no real tackling of abortion itself.

If anything actually happens, you'll hear about it here. Until then, this is just hot air.