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Note: This text doesn't make sense if you haven't read Abortion: Have We Done Our Homework?.
Ideally, the Declaration would be hosted on a "neutral" website, and perhaps under the stewardship of some kind of association of federal political parties. This is because the project is political in nature, and its main goals are to promote social peace and better political decision-making.
Currently, this project is informally led by the webmaster of this website, and the participants are basically all those curious enough to add their e-mail addresses to the newsletter. If you have a better suggestion, please notify me!
The "neutral" web site is important to avoid, among others, the following problems:
- Organizations who want to impose their large flashing banner, with "live" content (i.e., their banner can display anything, anytime, without the webmaster being able to control it). By having a single neutral web site for all participants, we can impose one single conservative style for the hyperlinks.
- Disagreements on where an organization is listed. For example, if the web site is not neutral, some organizations could have their hyperlinks be classified under the category of "bad hyperlinks you should not visit", etc.
That is certainly NOT our intention! Searching for common ground doesn't mean: "Let's abandon the Bible and become pagans in order to get along with everybody!"
If you carefully read Paragraph #5.2, you will see I'm not asking anybody to give up the Bible. On the other hand, I'm asking everybody not to throw out reason and science. I've attempted to explain this for Evangelical Christians in the essay called "A defence of Philosophy against some arguments by Evangelical Christians".
The misunderstanding probably arises because "search for common ground" makes some people think about "watering down our position until it becomes acceptable to the other side", instead of "backing away from the Bone of Contention until we find some things we don't disagree about".
Several people have mentioned that having a debate on abortion is impossible, if both sides don't define certain terms. I totally agree (See Paragraph #2.2). Which is why I claim we need to have a "pre-debate" before the debate. If there is some definition we don't agree on, then we simply "push it back" into the following debate.
I don't have a perfect method, but you can read my starting suggestion called "Concedo, Nego, Distinguo".
6.1) Copy the whole 6) What would be examples of statements accepted by all? section in an e-mail.
6.2) Pretend you're a traffic light! Under each statement, write "Green" if you completely agree, "Red" if you don't agree, and "Yellow" otherwise.
6.3) If you can, explain your "Yellows" and "Reds".
6.4) Perhaps add statements which you think might be common to both sides.
6.5) Send me the whole thing!
6.6) Send a link to this project to a few people you know, and who might like to get involved.