Denver, Colo., Aug 27, 2008 / 01:18 am
Attempting to find “common ground on abortion,” former Indiana U.S. Representative Timothy Roemer, a pro-life Catholic Democrat, and Rev. Dr. Susan Brooks Thistlewaite, a pro-choice Democrat and president of the United Church of Christ-affiliated Chicago Theological Seminary, spoke on the “Faith in Action” panel at the Democratic National Convention in Denver on Tuesday.
The two speakers, addressing delegates and guests gathered in a ballroom at the Colorado Convention Center, professed a shared desire to reduce the number of abortions and to establish a “web of support” for poorer women who are considering having an abortion.
Citing Robert F. Kennedy’s exhortation to work to reduce the number of suffering children, Roemer defended the possibility of finding common ground on the issue.
“If we can do it with issues like jobs and health care, we can do it on abortion,” he said.