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It's a pretty sad state of affairs, that "issue." There are people who genuinely do care about human life, but got swept up in the anti-abortion rhetoric. But then there are also people who just use it as a cudgel to claim they give a single shit about human life, while supporting, for example, US imperialism. So it can really be a bunch of BS.

I do know a Catholic who eventually came around to the position that the government shouldn't be trying to stop people from having abortions. They still don't believe in abortion, but that part is less important anyway compared to people who actively want the government to restrict it. I might have made a difference there; whenever it came up, I would tend to push the position that it's damaging to women's health and autonomy for the government to try to stop it. Not that it means much in the US context, where I live, since Roe v Wade, the main federal bulwark for abortion rights in the US, was overturned.

Semi-related, drives me up the wall when I hear Catholics talking about pregnancy like their God is hovering over them and going, alright, some sex happened, lemme get a look here and decide if I want a pregnancy to happen this time. But as rough as my portrayal of it is, I don't think that's far off from what they belief, theologically, which is why some of them don't even belief in birth control and whatnot. I wonder if it will eventually die out if science is able to map out and then teach a thorough understanding of fertility. It seems like one of those things where ignorance has the blanks filled in with God.