(NAE President:) “…we do not dismiss those who advocate for legal access to abortion as unconcerned for human life or unworthy of our respect and attention.”

The National Association of Evangelicals has issued a new resolution on abortion advocacy that calls for pursuing “common ground” towards reducing the abortion rate in America, and included contraception as among possible means of achieving that goal.

The “common ground” talking point is often heard from the likes of pro-abortion giants such as President Obama, who famously lectured University of Notre Dame graduates on using “fair-minded words” and not “demonizing” proponents of the legalized killing of unborn children. The leader of the new initiative nonetheless told LifeSiteNews.com that the statements were not intended to soften the group’s stance against abortion, and that the group still considered making abortion illegal a primary goal.

The NAE announced in a May 20 press release the launch of a new initiative for grounding respect for life in a Biblical ethos on sexuality, as well as a new abortion resolution, calling it “an effort to pursue common ground towards reducing the number of abortions” that will “explore practical and realistic approaches to curtail” abortion.

Leith Anderson, the president of the NAE, said in the press release that “a million abortions in the United States every year is unacceptable.” “The NAE is engaging a fresh national dialogue seeking effective ways to significantly reduce the number of abortions,” he said.