This, to me, is the perfect illustration of the cognitive dissonance of the “progressive” type. One Obama supporter told me that conservatives are “inconsistent” because conservatives are against abortion but favor the death penalty. I told him that first off only a fool would not recognize that if that position is inconsistent the liberal view which favors abortion but condemns the death penalty MUST also be inconsistent since it is the mirror image. In reality both are consistent but the conservative position is consistently logical and reasonable while the liberal view is consistently ILlogical and UNreasonable. It is amazing how such confused people can imagine that they are the soul of logic and reason.
I’d be willing to give up capital punishment if it ended abortion. That trade includes a lot of big ifs though and I doubt the left would ever make that deal. They are totalitarian in nature and part of the death culture.