{"id":921,"date":"2017-01-15T11:09:09","date_gmt":"2017-01-15T11:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cpur\/?p=921"},"modified":"2017-07-20T10:36:54","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T09:36:54","slug":"michael-wear-on-obamas-forgotten-plan-to-reduce-abortions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cpur\/2017\/01\/15\/michael-wear-on-obamas-forgotten-plan-to-reduce-abortions\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama&#8217;s Forgotten Plan to Reduce Abortions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Wear, Honorary Fellow of The Edward Cadbury Centre for the Public Understanding of Religion, writes about abortion politics in the Obama White House, when he was a staffer there during President Barack Obama\u2019s first term and director of faith outreach for his reelection campaign. Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2017\/01\/barack-obama-faith-adviser-book-abortion-reduction-214635\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his article<\/a> on Politico.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_460\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-460\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-460\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cpur\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2017\/01\/MichaelWearHeadshot-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cpur\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2017\/01\/MichaelWearHeadshot-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cpur\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2017\/01\/MichaelWearHeadshot-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cpur\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2017\/01\/MichaelWearHeadshot.jpg 315w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-460\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Wear, Honorary Fellow of The Edward Cadbury Centre for the Public Understanding of Religion, founder of Public Square Strategies LLC and a leading expert and strategist at the intersection of faith, politics and American public life.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Wear, Honorary Fellow of The Edward Cadbury Centre for the Public Understanding of Religion, writes about abortion politics in the Obama White House, when he was a staffer there during President Barack Obama\u2019s first term and director of faith outreach for his reelection campaign. Read his article on Politico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-civic-life","category-public-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cpur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cpur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cpur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cpur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cpur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=921"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cpur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1204,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cpur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions\/1204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cpur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cpur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cpur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cpur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}