Dr. Tim Johnson on finding a middle-ground in the abortion debate

"I am a Protestant minister who became an emergency room doctor and then medical editor for ABC News for 25 years. In all those positions, I saw firsthand the impact of abortion on individual lives and families.

And I have concluded that the best way to think about abortion – and to achieve possible compromise — is to be both anti-abortion and pro-choice.

Most of us are instinctively anti-abortion. I personally have never met anyone who thinks it is a trivial procedure.

And since most abortions result from unwanted pregnancies, the logical answer is to make contraceptive birth control measures widely and affordably available. If you are anti-abortion, you must also be pro-birth control".