Started conservative, moved to libertarian, and am now 90% liberal. (This is over approximately 15 years.)

My one holdover is that I am still pro-life, to an extent. I think it is incredibly naive to think that making abortion illegal will suddenly flip some sort of switch and wipe it out. Abortion will still exist, but it will just be much more dangerous to the mother (and even the baby). It sounds about as effective as the war on drugs.

The Republicans have made absolutely 0 effort to prepare for such a change. We need sweeping changes to the foster/adoption system, and sex education needs to be improved. Abstinence only sex ed does not work. Period. And it's ridiculous to lob contraception in with abortion when one clearly prevents the other. While many Republicans are likely pro-life for the right reasons, I feel GOP politicians just use it for political sway. It's so much easier to blame the other side for the problem when you don't have a solution yourself. I have seen many friends vote Republican because of abortion, but I just can't be a single issue voter and ignore so many issues I feel the GOP has wrong.

TL;DR - Pro-life liberal thinks there's a lot more that needs to be done about abortion rather than just making it illegal.