No one that I know of in the pro-choice camp is in support of abortion. The two women are part of a larger, quiet movement springing up around the country, from Philadelphia to St. Louis to Denver, the Common Ground Network for Life and Choice. They aim not to compromise or change the each other's deeply held position, but to shift the dynamic of the debate. To calm it down. Tellingly, the discussion is being assisted by Search for Common Ground, a nonprofit conflict-resolution organization in Washington that fosters dialogue in explosive areas like the Middle East, the former Soviet Union, and Burundi.
Abortion is the group's only domestic issue.
And understanding the problem is the key to solving the problem. Both sides have to break out of the orthodox mindset and get things done together piece by piece. That's a lot better than nothing. The movement was begun in large part because the rising level of vitriol and the clinic shootings and stalkings shocked people on both sides of the debate. It was ripping communities apart.