“The common ground that Barack Obama seeks
for the pro-life movement is the burial ground.”

A Washington Post article is out quoting National Right to Life’s Legislative Director Douglas Johnson regarding President Obama’s supposed search for common ground on the issue of abortion.  Here is an excerpt:

NEW YORK — Seeking elusive common ground on abortion, prominent activists and clergy on both sides of the debate are throwing their support behind a bill aimed at preventing unintended pregnancies and supporting pregnant women.

The bill’s backers hope President Barack Obama, who has appealed for a more civil tone to the debate, will embrace it as a step toward reducing the need for abortions, but many staunch anti-abortion leaders remain hostile. “It’s part of a big political scam,” said Douglas Johnson of the National Right to Life Committee.

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Douglas Johnson, the National Right to Life Committee’s legislative director, described the Ryan-DeLauro bill as a part of “political scam” aimed at portraying Obama and other Democrats as moderate on abortion while catering to their backers in the abortion-rights community.

“The common ground that Barack Obama seeks for the pro-life movement is the burial ground,” Johnson said. “The bill is crafted in such a way as to put more resources in the hands of people providing and advocating for abortion.”

Johnson and his allies also have been active this week warning that current Democratic proposals for overhauling health care would lead to taxpayer-funded abortions. Ryan has waded into that dispute, suggesting a compromise that would let private insurers decide for themselves on abortion coverage but bar use of federal funds for the procedure.