Indeed, there are hints of this success in other parts of this movement. Some have jointly endorsed legislation for sex education or funding for poor families. And recently, the Public Conversations Project took their model to a church group and a women's group and in Mississippi. Such signs look small against the backdrop of the trench warfare. But they are real testimony to the longing to figure a way out of this endless, polarizing civil strife.
Abortion is an argument painted mostly in black and white when most people see shades of gray.
But here, the Public Conversations Project is trying to release fresh ways of thinking, to stake out new ground. A much more peaceful hue.