McGrath, Democrats are most often supporting all sorts of proven effective sex education and birth control programs that could obviate the need for many or most abortions. It is the organizations who call themselves "pro-life" (which is not actually the case for most of them) who OPPOSE these programs. The REAL agenda of those who call themselves "pro-life" is the reduction of the number of sex acts, and the control of women. I don't think Democrats have systematically pushed away those who call themselves "pro-life," but rather they have pushed themselves away with their rigidity.