Of course, you're right that, if Democrats would stop advocating abortion rights, it would be a great deal easier to vote for them. As it stands, the average centrist Catholic voter (who is both pro-life and supports Democratic anti-poverty programs) has to weigh the body count from Republican budget cuts against the body count of Democratic abortion policy. And any honest arithmetic drives them into the Republican column as a result.
FETUSES AREN'T PEOPLE YOU FUCKING MORON!
If you're pro-life, they are.
Then God is the world's greatest abortion doctor, and his already substantial murder count from what's been documented in the Bible keeps going up daily.
Man, I'm not pro-life. But it's not like their position is hard to understand. If you believe that human life begins at conception, an opposition to abortion naturally follows.
Smart pro-lifers, like one of my friends in Arkansas, pair that with support for more awareness of and in some cases financial support for birth control, so that abortions aren't necessary in the first place. But it's not like their position is any more arbitrary than your own decision on when human life begins.
Sure. And if pro-lifers were by and large in favour of comprehensive sex education and improved access to birth control, I wouldn't have anywhere near the level of anger I do against them. But when you insist on policies that will increase the pregnancy rate, and restrict access to abortion, and remove the supports for women who have children... that's when I get pissed off.
And anyway, even if I thought human life began at conception (I'm undecided on the point), I could still see an argument for the pro-choice position: what right does the zygote/embryo/fetus have to demand that another human provide literally all the necessities of life for it for nine or so months, while also inflicting various negative physical consequences on said human? Would I have the right simply to attach myself to another human in that way and make those demands and exact those consequences? And if not, why does the zygote/embryo/fetus have that right while I don't if we're both equally human?