Since abortion is legal, and will remain so, and since no-one in the US is actually ‘pro-abortion’, I wish both the anti-abortion and the pro-choice crowd could work together on finding ways to limit the need for abortion. They could engage in a combined effort to provide better birth control and better access to birth control. They could work together to make sure all insurance companies cover the pill—which they don’t, currently, although they’ll cover Viagra.

They could work together on educating people about their birth control options, and fund research into more and better ones (we don’t have many options for male birth control, for example).

It seems as if there should be a broad coalition of people from both camps who could work together, especially if they care about women’s health.

The current polarisation of the debate makes this impossible, and it’s a shame.