Maybe people don't get " connection between being 'pro-choice' and abortion" because the issues aren't that easy. Some people look more at states' vs. federal rights. Some people look at constitutional versus legal or legislative or judicial action. Some people vote pro-choice because there is no clear alternative and the "pro-life" people can't even agree on what the consequences would be. Some people believe that adult women have more right to life than unborn children. Anyhow, this could go on and on, and people who are "pro-life" tend to flatten everything into one name: pro-abortion; priests whose minds are also collapsing everything into what they think is most important cannot seem to make any judgment about anyone since they are lumping every politician's perspective into one: "pro-abortion". It's sadly simplistic, especially when it comes to anything that "pro-life" people want to pass into law without stating the consequences. That's not even possible.