A response and challenge to Obama' s commencement speech

H/T to Bob Imbelli at dotCommonweal for the link to a post by Michael Stokes Paulsen at Moral Accountability in which he offers a response and challenge to Barack Obama's comments on abortion in his commmencement speech at Notre Dame:

Speaking at Notre Dame’s commencement, President Obama said that he wanted to embrace “common ground” on abortion. Most pro-lifers will greet that assertion with considerable skepticism. Measured by substantive positions, rather than graduation rhetoric, Barack Obama is the most extreme pro-abortion president in our nation’s history: he supports partial-birth abortion; he opposes protecting the lives of children (accidentally) born alive during an abortion; he supports mandatory abortion funding with tax dollars; he supports the “Freedom of Choice Act” to entrench and even expand abortion rights (though he has recently that it’s not a “priority” for him right now); and he has, in the past, declared a pro-abortion litmus test for judicial appointments.

But what if we were to take the President seriously, in his stated desire to reduce abortion? How might the President demonstrate, in real, concrete ways, that his remarks should be taken seriously and not as false advertising?

I propose five questions for the President, as a test of his seriousness of purpose in seeking “common ground” on abortion.

1. Mr. President, we all agree that abortion is, at least, a tragic choice. Will you, Mr. President, publicly state that it is your wish that women not have abortions, whenever humanly possible? Will you state that you think that the “choice” you wish to preserve should be exercised in favor of preserving the developing life of the unborn child? Will you lead in this way? Will you urge, and support through policy, adoption instead of abortion? If you are serious in seeking common ground, surely this is ground we can all share.
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(For Paulsen's questions 2 through 5, read his complete post)