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True anti-abortion people have a difficult position politically. They truly believe life begins at conception. However, the implications of that position in society are too much for most people. It would mean prosecuting doctors/nurses/pregnant women for murder. It would mean banning many contraceptives, and charging people that use them with murder. It would mean police investigations into miscarriages. Thus, abortion will never be banned, and it breaks their hearts.

I sympathize with them.

And there is another problem. What you described is a moral and religious issue.

There is also political problem.

How can one rationalize that they are "Conservative" in its true meaning if you are begging for Government intervention into the most minute details of family life.

I have no answer.

They truly believe life begins at conception. However, the implications of that position in society are too much for most people. It would mean prosecuting doctors/nurses/pregnant women for murder. It would mean banning many contraceptives, and charging people that use them with murder. It would mean police investigations into miscarriages.

That's just goofy. Abortion was illegal everywhere in the US prior to 1967. There were no "police investigations into miscarriages". Nor were women who aborted prosecuted. The prosecutions were directed against those who profited from abortion, and the simple threat of losing one's medical license kept a lot of potential abortionists out of the picture.

I guess when you're in sympathy with a "movement" that defends sucking the brains out of the skulls of viable babies as a "right," you've got to resort to caricaturing the opposition as out-of-control maniacs who would do things like sic the police on women who've just miscarried. I sympathize with you.