While I would still strongly disagree with "pro-life" people, it would be with a bit more sympathy..

[Ocelot II]

2. "Pro-choice" is the important phrase.

For me, at least, the issue isn't whether abortion is bad or wrong; it's whether the state gets to decide that question for you. The inconsistencies of the anti-choice people's positions regarding "life" has a great deal to do with controlling women's sexuality, making it less of a mental gyration for them to oppose abortion while approving of the death penalty and other policies that can kill actual living, post-born people. I find the official position of the Catholic Church, for example, a bit more defensible because it opposes the death penalty as well as abortion, and is therefore at least consistent. I get why someone might oppose abortion on moral or religious grounds (though I don't agree), which the GOP politicians claim to do, although it's clearly something else. My point is that the power of the state should not be used to further a minority religious belief.